Akara is a healthcare technology company. Our mission is to modernize public health using technology. We are doing this through a digital infection control platform that combines environmental sensing, mobile apps and automated room decontamination. Akara are a spin-out from Trinity College Dublin, Ireland’s #1 university. The company emerged from more than a decade of research in cutting-edge robotics, artificial intelligence, applied microbiology, and user-centred design. Our team have extensive experience deploying service robots in the healthcare industry, and our work has previously featured on the cover of Time magazine. Our technology has been developed in collaboration with leading hospitals in Europe and has been validated in numerous peer-reviewed scientific publications.
Location: Ireland, Dublin City, Dublin
Employees: 11-50
Total raised: $2.9M
Founded date: 2019
Investors 1
| Date | Name | Website |
| 25.08.2026 | Endless Fr... | endlessfro... |
Funding Rounds 1
| Date | Series | Amount | Investors |
| 15.06.2021 | Grant | $2.9M | - |
Mentions in press and media 6
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| 12.09.2025 | Akara wins KPMG Global Tech Innovator Ireland competition | Akara, an AI company seeking to streamline hospital operations, has been named the winner of the KPMG Global Tech Innovator (GTI) Ireland competition for 2025. The start-up uses AI-powered sensors, predictive analytics, and autonomous disin... |
| 21.03.2024 | Which Dublin Health Care Startups Are Revolutionising the Industry in 2023? | Dublin is not only Ireland’s capital and largest city but a burgeoning nucleus of innovative start-ups that proffers an array of solutions in health care. With the growing demand for health tech globally, these Irish start-ups are championi... |
| 20.02.2024 | Which Dublin Healthcare Startups are Influencing Ireland’s Medical Landscape in 2023? | Emerging from the vibrant and flourishing Dublin startup ecosystem comes a set of innovative health care startups. These startups, each in their unique way, offer solutions to complex problems in health care. Spanning various sectors such a... |
| 17.10.2023 | Which Irish Health Care Startups Are Revolutionising Europe’s Medical Sector? | Health care startups in Ireland are rising to face the increasing health challenges that are surfacing daily. They are leveraging technology to provide innovative solutions to improve the health care industry. In this list, we have collated... |
| 13.04.2023 | Preventing the Next Pandemic: The Innovative Solutions Leading the Way | The COVID-19 pandemic created an unprecedented health and societal crisis for many of us across the world. Its death toll estimates place it among history’s deadliest plagues. Despite having much more advanced economic, healthcare, and tech... |
| 23.12.2019 | MIT Technology Review presents the Innovators Under 35 Europe 2019 | Since 1999, MIT Technology Review recognizes the young innovators and most talented entrepreneurs from different countries who are developing new technologies to help solve the problems that affect our society nowadays. These young bright m... |