Brett Adcock’s AI startup Hark lands $700M at $6B valuation
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– AI hardware startup Hark, founded by Brett Adcock, raised over $700 million in a Series A round at a $6 billion valuation, led by Parkway Venture Capital and including investors like Nvidia, AMD, and Intel Capital.
– The company exited stealth two months ago and has not yet shipped a product, placing it among top-tier AI hardware bets despite lacking a clear product definition.
– Hark describes itself as developing a “personal AI platform” combining in-house foundation models, software, and native hardware, with its first multimodal models expected to launch this summer.
– Founder Brett Adcock previously co-founded successful companies including Archer Aviation and Figure, and initially funded Hark with $100 million of his own money in late 2025.
– Hark enters a challenging market with past failures like Humane’s AI Pin, and remains opaque on headcount, hardware form factor, pricing, and launch market.
Two months after emerging from stealth, Brett Adcock’s latest AI venture, Hark, has secured over $700 million in Series A funding at a $6 billion valuation. The round places the company among the most heavily capitalized bets in the AI hardware space, even before it has shipped a single product to customers.
The funding was led by Parkway Venture Capital, with participation from a roster of chip and cloud heavyweights: Nvidia, AMD Ventures, Intel Capital, and Qualcomm Ventures all contributed, alongside Salesforce Ventures, Brookfield, ARK Invest, Greycroft, Prime Movers Lab, Align Ventures, and Tamarack Global. Many of these investors straddle both sides of the AI hardware equation, which is precisely the point.
Adcock, who previously founded Figure, the humanoid robotics company where he remains CEO, Archer Aviation, Vettery, and the school-security firm Cover, began bankrolling Hark late last year with $100 million of his own money. His track record spans public companies, acquisitions, and well-funded private operators. At Hark, he serves as principal.
What Hark is building remains somewhat vague. The company describes it as a “personal AI platform” that integrates in-house foundation models, software, and native hardware with novel interfaces, rather than focusing on just one layer of the tech stack. According to its March announcement, Hark plans to release its first multi-modal models this summer.
The category Hark enters is notoriously difficult. Humane’s AI Pin became 2024’s most visible cautionary tale, with the Rabbit R1 close behind. Even Apple, with its unmatched hardware distribution machine, has spent the past year trying to define its on-device AI strategy. The argument for Adcock is that he has shipped hardware before, at Archer and Figure, and that integrating models and silicon from day one offers the best shot at a defensible product.
Still, Hark has not disclosed its headcount, hardware form factor, target price, launch market, or customer pipeline. The $700 million Series A buys time to keep those details under wraps. With Nvidia and AMD on the cap table, supply allocation, often the tightest constraint for AI hardware companies in 2026, becomes a problem Hark can likely solve more easily than most.
What the round does not guarantee is product-market fit. Hark joins a category where several well-funded, well-credentialed teams have launched, missed, and quietly retreated. By the company’s own timeline, the first models are weeks away; the device that turns those models into a business remains further out.
(Source: The Next Web)