Hark raises $700 million to build consumer AI hardware
Hark, an AI lab founded by Brett Adcock, closed a Series A funding round of $700 million at a $6 billion post-money valuation on Thursday. The round was led by Parkway Venture Capital and included Nvidia, AMD Ventures, Qualcomm Ventures, Salesforce Ventures, Intel Capital, and others.
The company is building an agentic AI system designed to serve as a universal interface with digital services. Unlike most AI startups focused on coding tools or enterprise software, Hark plans to release multimodal models this summer aimed at consumers, followed by hardware devices built specifically for those systems.
Adcock, who previously founded robotics company Figure.AI and electric aircraft builder Archer, launched Hark in late 2025 with $100 million of his own capital. The company currently employs 70 people and operates a data center with Nvidia B200 GPUs.
Design focus sets Hark apart
Abidur Chowdhury, Hark's director of design and a former Apple product executive, said the company is taking a different approach than competitors. While Anthropic and OpenAI prioritize coding tools, Hark is building interfaces and hardware as its primary focus.
"I haven't seen anything that feels like something that will really help the normal person," Chowdhury said. "People are really building things to help people make software, and it's working, but we haven't really seen that for the normal person yet."
Investors saw demos from Hark's design team but the company has disclosed little about the actual product. Chowdhury declined to answer questions about specific features.
Privacy and context remain unsolved
One technical challenge facing any personal AI assistant is providing context about a user's life without creating privacy concerns for people around them. Existing wearables like Meta's glasses haven't solved this problem.
When asked how Hark would address this, Chowdhury smiled and said only: "Sounds like that would make a great product."
The fresh capital will fund hiring in hardware, product design, and AI research, plus compute and component procurement. Hark expects to compete in a market where most products have focused on professional use cases rather than consumer applications.
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