March 29, 2019

Andrew Cheng
President and Chief Executive Officer
Akero Therapeutics, Inc.
170 Harbor Way, 3rd Floor
South San Francisco, CA 94080

       Re: Akero Therapeutics, Inc.
           Amendment No. 1 to
           Draft Registration Statement on Form S-1
           Submitted March 19, 2019
           CIK No. 0001744659

Dear Mr. Cheng:

      We have reviewed your amended draft registration statement and have the
following
comments. In some of our comments, we may ask you to provide us with
information so we
may better understand your disclosure.

       Please respond to this letter by providing the requested information and
either submitting
an amended draft registration statement or publicly filing your registration
statement on
EDGAR. If you do not believe our comments apply to your facts and circumstances
or do not
believe an amendment is appropriate, please tell us why in your response.

      After reviewing the information you provide in response to these comments
and your
amended draft registration statement or filed registration statement, we may
have additional
comments.

Amendment No. 1 to the Draft Registration Statement on Form S-1

Overview, page 1

1.     We note your response to prior comment 2. Please disclose the source of
the statistics
       provided in the third paragraph of this section.
Dilution, page 70

2.     In the first sentence of the third paragraph, it appears that pro forma
net tangible book
       value per share as of December 31, 2018 is $1.14 rather than $69.57. As
a related matter,
       please also revise the corresponding caption in the dilution table.
 Andrew Cheng
Akero Therapeutics, Inc.
March 29, 2019
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       You may contact Yolanda Trotter at (202) 551-3472 or Li Xiao at (202)
551-4391 if you
have questions regarding comments on the financial statements and related
matters. Please
contact Chris Edwards at (202) 551-6761 or Coy Garrison at (202) 551-3466 with
any other
questions.



                                                         Sincerely,
FirstName LastNameAndrew Cheng
                                                         Division of
Corporation Finance
Comapany NameAkero Therapeutics, Inc.
                                                         Office of Healthcare &
Insurance
March 29, 2019 Page 2
cc:       Laurie A. Burlingame
FirstName LastName