Hark raises $700M Series A for secretive AI assistant
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- Hark raised a $700 million Series A at a $6 billion post-money valuation, led by Parkway Venture Capital with Nvidia, AMD Ventures, ARK Invest, Brookfield, Greycroft, Intel Capital, Qualcomm Ventures, and Salesforce Ventures also participating.
- Brett Adcock launched Hark in late 2025 with $100 million of his own money — the same entrepreneur behind robotics firm Figure.AI and electric aircraft maker Archer — to build an agentic AI system he describes as a 'universal interface with the digital world.'
- Hark plans to release its first multimodal models this summer, then follow with hardware devices built specifically for those systems; the 70-person team currently runs a data center on Nvidia B200 GPUs.
- Abidur Chowdhury, Hark's director of design and a former Apple product executive, said investors were won over by team demos but declined to share product details, arguing that Anthropic and OpenAI are too focused on coding tools to serve 'the normal person.'
- The company left key questions unanswered — particularly how its assistant will capture a user's life context without making bystanders uncomfortable, a problem the source notes existing wearables like Meta's glasses and forthcoming Android spectacles have not solved.
Why it matters: Roughly $10 million per employee across Hark's 70-person team, on top of a $6 billion valuation, is an extraordinary bet on a product nobody outside the company has seen. With Anthropic and OpenAI dominating AI headlines by chasing coding revenue, a round this size on demos and founder credibility alone shows how much dry powder remains for consumer-facing AI plays.
