Insider Brief
- Hark raised more than $700 million in an oversubscribed Series A round at a $6 billion valuation to develop AI systems and AI-native hardware designed to create more personalized human-machine interaction.
- The round was led by Parkway Venture Capital and included Nvidia, Align Ventures, AMD Ventures, ARK Invest, Brookfield, Greycroft, Intel Capital, Prime Movers Lab, Qualcomm Ventures, Salesforce Ventures and Tamarack Global.
- Hark said it has grown to roughly 70 employees, secured a new NVIDIA B200 data center for model training and plans to release its first AI models later this summer.
Hark has raised more than $700 million in a Series A round valuing the AI startup at $6 billion as it looks to develop AI systems and new hardware products designed to “serve as a universal interface between humans and machines.”
The oversubscribed round was led by Parkway Venture Capital and included Nvidia, Align Ventures, AMD Ventures, ARK Invest, Brookfield, Greycroft, Intel Capital, Prime Movers Lab, Qualcomm Ventures, Salesforce Ventures and Tamarack Global, according to Hark. Qatalyst Partners advised Hark in its funding round, the company added.
Rather than focusing on a single layer of the AI stack, Hark said it is developing a broader platform combining AI models, software and hardware to create more personalized systems that can retain context and interact with users beyond traditional chatbot interfaces.
“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,” founder and CEO Brett Adcock said in the announcement. “This funding helps us put that in people’s hands quickly and at scale.”
The company said it has expanded its team to roughly 70 employees and secured additional computing infrastructure, including a new NVIDIA B200 data center, to support development and training of future AI models. Hark indicated it plans to release its first AI models later this summer.
“Its models will be agentic and multimodal, built to remember who you are and what you say,” the company said of the platform in a post on its website. “They’ll work across the products and services you already use, managing your digital world as a caring, capable assistant that eventually acts with human-level intuition.”
