Just the two of us.

Maria Lourdes Malipol is a 2025 AI for Asia Fellow and the CEO and Technical Founder of Akaiin, a healthtech startup reimagining family caregiving starting in the Philippines.

Inspired by her family's journey caring for a loved one with chronic illness, Maria personally architected Akaiin's end-to-end AI infrastructure to translate fragmented health data into actionable support for families.

Her technical leadership was recently recognized by The Philippines' Department of Trade and Industry, placing second in a national innovation challenge organized by its investment arm, the National Development Company.

She is dedicated to building ethical, human-centered technology for the invisible backbone of health systems across Southeast Asia.

Selina Malipol is the Co-Founder of Akaiin and the family's primary on-ground family caregiver. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Information Technology with a major in Business Analytics from Batangas State University.

Before co-founding Akaiin, Selina worked as an Information Technology Trainee at Laguna Gateway Inland Container Terminal Inc., where she built automation systems and digital tools for process improvement. She also served as Youth Leader and Design Lead for The Young Doers, a nonprofit animal welfare initiative, where she designed web and app interfaces and managed a volunteer team of over fifteen members.

Selina is currently a fellow of Cohort 9 of the Eskwelabs Innovation Fellowship under the Visual & Information Design Track. Her lived experience as a family caregiver is the foundation of Akaiin's product development. If something does not help a real family caregiver, it does not ship.

She and Maria placed second overall at the National Hackathon Breaking Enigma 2025, organized by the National Development Company under DTI, for building an AI-powered care coordination platform.