Hark raises $700M Series A for its secretive “universal” AI interface

Source: TechCrunch

Funding round

Hark, an AI lab building models and hardware for a personal AI assistant, announced a $700 million Series A round that values the company at $6 billion post‑money. The round was led by Parkway Venture Capital and included investors such as Align Ventures, AMD Ventures, ARK Invest, Brookfield, Greycroft, Intel Capital, Prime Movers Lab, Qualcomm Ventures, Salesforce Ventures, and Tamarack Global.

Company background

Founder and CEO Brett Adcock—formerly behind robotics company Figure.AI and electric‑aircraft builder Archer—launched Hark in late 2025 with $100 million of his own capital. The company aims to develop an agentic AI system that serves as a universal interface with the digital world.

Product roadmap

• Multi‑modal models: Hark expects to release its first multi‑modal models this summer. These models will power a personal AI platform that integrates with existing products and services.
• Hardware: Following the model release, Hark plans to build hardware devices specifically designed for its AI systems.

The fresh capital will be used to recruit top talent in hardware, product design, and AI research, as well as to secure compute resources and components. Hark currently employs 70 people and operates a data center equipped with Nvidia B200 GPUs.

Team

Abidur Chowdhury, a former Apple product executive, serves as Hark’s director of design. In a recent interview, Chowdhury highlighted the lack of AI products that genuinely help “the normal person,” noting that while companies like Anthropic and OpenAI focus on coding tools, few are dedicated to building interfaces and native hardware the way Hark is.

“I haven’t seen anything that feels like something that will really help like the normal person,” Chowdhury said.
“People are really building things to help people make software, and it’s working, and it’s really impactful, but we haven’t really seen that for the normal person yet.”

Challenges

A key challenge for Hark will be delivering personalized context to an AI assistant without compromising user privacy or making surrounding individuals uncomfortable. Existing wearables such as Meta’s glasses and upcoming Android spectacles have yet to solve this issue. When asked about this dilemma, Chowdhury responded with a smile and said:

“Sounds like that would make a great product.”