September 10, 2019 Jessica Billingsley Chief Executive Officer Akerna Corp. 1601 Arapahoe St. Denver, CO 80202 Re: Akerna Corp. Amendment No. 1 to Registration Statement on Form S-3 Filed August 27, 2019 File No. 333-232694 Dear Ms. Billingsley: We have reviewed your amended 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 amending your registration statement and providing the requested information. 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 any amendment to your registration statement and the information you provide in response to these comments, we may have additional comments. Unless we note otherwise, our references to prior comments are to comments in our August 13, 2019 letter. Amendment No. 1 to Registration Statement on Form S-3 Risk Factors Our amended and restated certificate of incorporation provides ..., page 27 1. Please revise your risk factor to clarify whether your exclusive forum provision would apply to derivative lawsuits based on claims under the federal securities laws. The risk factor should also clarify whether federal courts would have jurisdiction over these derivative lawsuits should the state courts in Delaware be found to lack jurisdiction. As noted in prior comment 2, Section 27 of the Exchange Act creates exclusive federal jurisdiction over all suits brought to enforce any duty or liability created by the Exchange Act or the rules and regulations thereunder, and Section 22 of the Securities Act creates concurrent jurisdiction for federal and state courts over all suits brought to enforce any Jessica Billingsley Akerna Corp. September 10, 2019 Page 2 duty or liability created by the Securities Act or the rules and regulations thereunder. Plan of Distribution Lock-Up Agreement, page 35 2. Your response to prior comment 3 refers to "various selling stockholders are subject to the Lock-Up Agreement." Please identify the selling stockholders that are subject to the Lock-Up Agreement and quantify how much of the 5,798,692 shares of common stock being registered would be restricted from resale under the Lock-Up Agreement. Incorporation of Documents By Reference, page 38 3. We note your response to prior comment 4 that your March 31, 2019 and 2018 interim financial statements were filed with your Form 8-K filed on June 21, 2019, and that Form 8-K is incorporated by reference to your registration statement. Please be aware that your eligibility to file on Form S-3 is partly based on the periodic reporting history of MTech Acquisition Corp. You assumed the reporting history of MTech as its successor corporation through Rule 12g-3, as disclosed in your Form 8-K filed on June 21, 2019. As such, please incorporate all of the MTech periodic reports filed since the end its last completed fiscal year. Please refer to Item 12, Incorporation of Certain Information by Reference and General Instructions I.A on Form S-3. You may contact Edwin Kim, Staff Attorney, at (202) 551-3297 or Jan Woo, Legal Branch Chief, at (202) 551-3453 with any questions. Sincerely, FirstName LastNameJessica Billingsley Division of Corporation Finance Office of Information Technologies Comapany NameAkerna Corp. and Services September 10, 2019 Page 2 cc: Tamar Donikyan, Esq. FirstName LastName