Taras Pohrebniak

Hi, my name is Taras.

I am an AI engineer and product manager with expertise in mental health.

My "why"

In 2017, I went through a severe depression for the first time. Therapy let me heal and move forward, and gave me a new passion: helping others like me. Since then, I've dedicated my life to helping solve the mental health crisis.

Currently, I am the CEO of Elomia Health, where our long-term goal is to develop an AI that will be as effective as traditional therapy. We believe we can achieve this by 2030 or earlier.

My mental health products

Elomia Health ↗

Elomia is an app with an AI-powered companion that listens, understands, and provides mental health support 24/7.

It has received coverage from numerous media outlets and was highlighted by the CTO of OpenAI, Mira Murati, in a session at the UK Parliament.

Highlights
  • Elomia is the most advanced mental health AI in the industry, surpassing competitors by up to 2.6 times in the average session count.
  • Over the course of four years, our clinical team has collected the world's largest mental health dataset suitable for generative AI training.
  • A study on the product's effectiveness is highly cited and ranks in the top 10% of papers in this field.
DreamSpace ↗

Before starting Elomia, I founded a mental health platform that offered online counseling for adolescents. The service was built around an algorithm we developed to match patients with therapists, aiming to increase the probability of finding the right fit.

Other accomplishments

LSKBots ↗

In 2016, I co-founded a chatbot development company that served four million end-users and had clients such as Mastercard.