AI lab Hark announced on May 21 that it had closed a Series A funding round worth over $700 million, giving it a post-money valuation of $6 billion. The round was heavily oversubscribed; Parkway Venture Capital led the investment, joined by NVIDIA, AMD Ventures, Intel Capital, Qualcomm Ventures, Salesforce Ventures, ARK Invest, Brookfield, Greycroft, Prime Movers Lab, Align Ventures, and Tamarack Global. Qatalyst Partners served as the financial advisor. Hark was founded at the end of 2025 by serial entrepreneur Brett Adcock — who previously founded electric aircraft firm Archer and humanoid robotics company Figure AI — using $100 million of his own funds; this Series A round came just two months after the company emerged from stealth mode.
Hark’s core philosophy is “vertical integration across the entire stack from day one”: instead of merely adding AI capabilities to existing consumer devices, it aims to embed self-developed foundational models, software systems, novel interfaces, and dedicated hardware into a unified product ecosystem. According to Adcock, the goal is to create an AI that “truly understands you, speaks your language, is highly personalized, and runs on hardware built specifically for you.” Currently, Hark employs around 70 people and operates its own data center equipped with NVIDIA B200 GPUs. The newly raised funds will be used to expand computing capacity, advance model development, grow the team to roughly 200 engineers, and design and manufacture next-generation AI hardware. The company plans to release its first multimodal models this summer, offering early access to select users, followed by the launch of dedicated hardware; specifics regarding product form factors, pricing, and target markets remain undisclosed.