Hark Raises $700 Million Series A for Universal AI Interface

AI startup Hark raised $700 million in a Series A round led by Parkway Venture Capital, valuing the company at $6 billion post-money. Founded by Brett Adcock in late 2025, Hark is building a universal AI interface and expects to release its first multimodal models in summer 2026. The round included participation from Nvidia, AMD Ventures, ARK Invest, Intel Capital, Qualcomm Ventures, and Salesforce Ventures.

Series A funding round

• ▪Hark raised $700 million in a Series A funding round announced on May 22, 2026.
• ▪Investors were impressed by a series of demos from Hark's design team.
• ▪Hark's Series A funding round valued Hark at $6 billion post-money.
• ▪Hark's Series A funding round included participation from Nvidia, Align Ventures, AMD Ventures, ARK Invest, Brookfield, Greycroft, Intel Capital, Prime Movers Lab, Qualcomm Ventures, Salesforce Ventures, and Tamarack Global.
• ▪Hark's Series A funding round was led by Parkway Venture Capital.

AI personal assistant platform

• ▪Hark is building an agentic AI system that serves as a universal interface with the digital world.
• ▪Hark's multimodal models will power a personal AI platform that works with existing products and services.
• ▪Hark expects to release its first multimodal models in summer 2026.

Hardware device development

• ▪Hark runs a data center with Nvidia B200 GPUs.
• ▪Hark's Series A funding will be spent on recruiting top talent for hardware, product design, and AI research, and on securing compute and components.
• ▪Hark expects to release hardware devices built specifically for its personal AI platform systems following the release of its multimodal models.

Privacy concerns

• ▪Providing the context of a customer's life to an AI assistant without making the people around the user uncomfortable or violating their privacy is a challenge for Hark.

Leadership team composition

• ▪Abidur Chowdhury is Hark's director of design.
• ▪Brett Adcock launched Hark in late 2025 with $100 million of his own money.
• ▪Abidur Chowdhury is a former Apple product executive.
• ▪Brett Adcock is the founder and CEO of Hark.
• ▪Brett Adcock is the entrepreneur behind robotics company Figure.AI and electric aircraft builder Archer.
• ▪Hark currently has 70 employees.

Competitive positioning

• ▪OpenAI is moving in the direction of coding tools ahead of its IPO.
• ▪Few companies are focused solely on building interfaces and native hardware the way Hark is.

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