AI Startup Hark Valued at $6B After New $700M Funding

Brett Adcock’s AI hardware company Hark has closed a $700 million Series A round, reaching a $6 billion valuation before shipping a single product.

Hark, a new artificial intelligence lab focused on building advanced personalized intelligence, has raised more than $700 million in a Series A funding round. The post-money valuation of the company now stands at $6 billion.

The round was oversubscribed. It was led by Parkway Venture Capital, with participation from NVIDIA, Align Ventures, AMD Ventures, ARK Invest, Brookfield, Greycroft, Intel Capital, Prime Movers Lab, Qualcomm Ventures, Salesforce Ventures, and Tamarack Global.

Hark was founded by entrepreneur Brett Adcock, who began funding the company out of his own pocket in late 2025. He seeded the venture with $100 million of his own capital. Adcock previously founded multiple companies that have since gone public or been acquired. Furthermore, the company has hired talent from Apple, Google, Meta, and Amazon. Abidur Chowdhury, a former Apple product executive, serves as Hark’s director of design.

Hark is developing highly intelligent, multimodal AI systems along with native hardware devices. These are designed to serve as a universal interface between humans and machines. In addition to that, the company’s AI models will be agentic and multimodal, built to remember users and what they say. The systems are intended to work across existing products and services, managing the user’s digital world as a capable, personalized assistant.

We’re building the AI that everyone deserves but no one has built yet, one that actually knows you, speaks your language, is highly personalized, and lives on hardware made for you.
Brett Adcock, Founder and CEO of Hark

Hark plans to use the funds to expand its GPU infrastructure, accelerate large-scale model development, and grow its team from approximately 70 to 200 engineers. The company will also develop next-generation AI hardware. Moreover, Hark has already secured a new NVIDIA B200 data center for model training. The company plans to release its first AI models later this summer.

After the model release, Hark will introduce AI-native hardware devices designed specifically for these systems, creating a seamless experience where models, software, and hardware work together. Investors are placing increasingly aggressive bets on companies attempting to move beyond chatbot interfaces, toward persistent, personalized AI systems embedded in dedicated hardware.

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The round drew a striking mix of backers. Participants span semiconductors, cloud infrastructure, enterprise software, and institutional asset management, a sign that multiple industries see Hark’s vision as strategically relevant to their own futures.

Nevertheless, the funding round does not buy product-market fit. Hark joins a category in which several well-funded and well-credentialed teams have launched, missed, and quietly retrenched.

The Series A closed roughly two months after Hark emerged from stealth. By the company’s own timeline, the first AI models are expected within weeks. The hardware device that would turn those models into a business remains further out. As of now, Hark operates out of San Jose, California, and continues to expand its team ahead of its first public product launch.

Disclaimer: This news is based on publicly available information. NervNow has not independently verified any claims.

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