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Hark Raises $700M Series A for Secretive Universal AI Interface

ai-technology · 2026-05-21

So, there's this AI lab called Hark, which is all about developing personal assistant technologies and hardware. They recently raised a whopping $700 million in a Series A funding round, with Parkway Venture Capital leading the way, pushing their valuation up to $6 billion. A bunch of investors joined in, including big names like AMD Ventures and Qualcomm Ventures. Hark was started by Brett Adcock in late 2025, kicking things off with $100 million of his own cash. They’re planning to roll out some new multi-modal models and custom hardware this summer. Right now, they have 70 employees and a data center with Nvidia B200 GPUs, but they’re working on balancing user privacy with context management.

Key facts

  • Hark raised $700 million in Series A funding.
  • The round was led by Parkway Venture Capital.
  • Other investors include Align Ventures, AMD Ventures, ARK Invest, Brookfield, Greycroft, Intel Capital, Prime Movers Lab, Qualcomm Ventures, Salesforce Ventures, and TamarackGlobal.
  • Hark is valued at $6 billion post-money.
  • Founder and CEO Brett Adcock previously founded Figure.AI and Archer.
  • Hark launched in late 2025 with $100 million from Adcock.
  • The company plans to release multi-modal models this summer.
  • Hark has 70 employees and uses Nvidia B200 GPUs.
  • Abidur Chowdhury, former Apple executive, is director of design.
  • Hark aims to build a universal AI interface for ordinary people.

Entities

Artists

  • Brett Adcock
  • Abidur Chowdhury

Institutions

  • Hark
  • Parkway Venture Capital
  • Align Ventures
  • AMD Ventures
  • ARK Invest
  • Brookfield
  • Greycroft
  • Intel Capital
  • Prime Movers Lab
  • Qualcomm Ventures
  • Salesforce Ventures
  • TamarackGlobal
  • Figure.AI
  • Archer
  • Apple
  • Anthropic
  • OpenAI
  • Meta
  • Nvidia
  • TechCrunch

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