Hark lands $700M Series A for secretive universal AI interface
▼ Summary
– Hark, an AI lab building an AI personal assistant, raised $700 million in a Series A round led by Parkway Venture Capital, valuing the company at $6 billion.
– Founder Brett Adcock launched Hark in late 2025 with $100 million of his own money to develop an agentic AI system as a universal digital interface.
– Hark plans to release multimodal models this summer for a personal AI platform, followed by dedicated hardware devices.
– The funding will be used to recruit talent in hardware, design, and AI research, and to secure compute and components; the company currently has 70 employees.
– Hark’s director of design noted few companies focus on building interfaces and native hardware for everyday users, while challenges like user privacy remain unresolved.
What does it take to launch the first truly indispensable AI consumer product? For Hark, the answer appears to be a cool $700 million.
The secretive AI lab announced on Thursday that it had closed a Series A funding round of that size, giving the company a $6 billion post-money valuation. The massive investment was spearheaded by Parkway Venture Capital, with a star-studded roster of backers including Nvidia, Align Ventures, AMD Ventures, ARK Invest, Brookfield, Greycroft, Intel Capital, Prime Movers Lab, Qualcomm Ventures, Salesforce Ventures, and Tamarack Global.
What makes this fundraise especially intriguing is the air of mystery surrounding Hark’s actual product. Founder and CEO Brett Adcock, the entrepreneur behind robotics firm Figure. AI and electric aircraft maker Archer, launched Hark in late 2025 with $100 million of his own money. His goal is to build an agentic AI system that functions as a universal interface for the digital world.
Hark plans to release its first multimodal models this summer, designed to power a personal AI platform that integrates with existing products and services. The company intends to follow that with custom-built hardware devices optimized for those systems.
The new capital will be used to recruit top talent across hardware, product design, and AI research, as well as to secure compute power and components. The company currently employs 70 people and operates a data center running on Nvidia B200 GPUs.
Abidur Chowdhury, a former Apple product executive who now serves as Hark’s director of design, offered a glimpse into the company’s philosophy. In a recent interview, he noted that while many AI companies focus on helping developers build software, few are addressing everyday consumers. “I haven’t seen anything that feels like something that will really help like the normal person,” Chowdhury said. “People are really building things to help people make software, and it’s working, and it’s really impactful, but we haven’t really seen that for the normal person yet.”
He pointed out that Anthropic is prioritizing coding tools and OpenAI is moving in a similar direction ahead of its IPO, leaving a gap for a company like Hark that focuses exclusively on building interfaces and native hardware. “With this focus, with this great team that we have, and this round that we’ve raised, I think we can make something really special in this space,” Chowdhury added.
Still, major questions remain. One of the biggest hurdles is providing an AI assistant with enough context about a user’s life without making others uncomfortable or violating privacy. Wearables like Meta’s glasses or upcoming Android spectacles have not yet cracked this problem. When pressed on how Hark might solve it, Chowdhury offered only a smile and a cryptic reply: “Sounds like that would make a great product.”
(Source: TechCrunch)
