Hark raises $700 million Series A for AI personal assistant platform and hardware

Hark, an AI startup founded by entrepreneur Brett Adcock, has completed a $700 million Series A funding round, valuing the company at $6 billion post-money. The round was led by Parkway Venture Capital and drew participation from semiconductor vendors Nvidia, AMD, Intel Capital, and Qualcomm Ventures, alongside venture firms ARK Invest, Align Ventures, Brookfield, Greycroft, Prime Movers Lab, Salesforce Ventures, and Tamarack Global.

The company plans to deploy the capital toward hiring in hardware engineering, product design, and AI research, as well as securing compute and components for its data center. Hark currently operates 70 employees and runs infrastructure using Nvidia B200 GPUs. Adcock founded Hark in late 2025 after building robotics company Figure AI and electric aircraft manufacturer Archer, and initially seeded the startup with $100 million of personal capital.

Hark's strategy centers on launching multimodal AI models by summer 2026 to power a personal assistant platform that integrates with existing digital services and products, followed by purpose-built hardware devices. The company has disclosed limited details about its technical architecture or product roadmap, though design director Abidur Chowdhury—a former Apple product executive—indicated that investor interest was driven by internal product demonstrations.

Chowdhury positioned Hark's approach as distinct from current market leaders: Anthropic's focus on coding assistants and OpenAI's enterprise pivot leave a gap in native consumer interfaces and hardware-software integration. He acknowledged a known challenge in the category: enabling AI assistants to access personal context without creating privacy concerns for people in proximity to the device, a problem he suggested remained unsolved by existing wearables from Meta and others.