Hark Raises $700M Series A at $6B Before Shipping a Single Product
Hark, a stealth AI lab from serial founder Brett Adcock, raises $700M at a $6B valuation to build proprietary models and AI-native hardware from scratch
- Massive early-stage raise: Hark raised over $700M in an oversubscribed Series A at a $6B post-money valuation before shipping any product.
- Founder pedigree drives the bet: Brett Adcock self-funded Hark with $100M of his own capital; he previously built Figure AI, Archer Aviation, and Vettery (sold for $100M).
- Strategic chip coalition: NVIDIA, AMD Ventures, Intel Capital, and Qualcomm Ventures all participated, locking in supply-chain relationships critical for AI hardware.
- Software before hardware: Agentic, multimodal AI models launch summer 2026; AI-native hardware devices follow, with specifics still undisclosed.
- Graveyard context: Humane sold assets for $116M after raising $230M; Rabbit R1 faced mass returns -- Hark enters a category with a brutal track record.
- OpenAI is the looming rival: OpenAI's Jony Ive-designed screen-free device targets a late-2026 reveal, making the personal AI hardware race intensely competitive.
Hark, a San Jose-based AI lab that has barely shown the world what it is building, just landed one of the largest early-stage funding rounds in AI history. The company announced an oversubscribed Series A of over $700 million at a $6 billion post-money valuation -- before shipping a single product.
The bet behind the blank page
Founder and CEO Brett Adcock -- also the entrepreneur behind robotics company Figure AI and electric aircraft builder Archer -- launched Hark in late 2025 with $100 million of his own money to develop an agentic AI system that serves as a universal interface with the digital world. That self-funded start was not a side project. Before launching Figure, Adcock founded the data-driven online recruiting marketplace Vettery, which he sold to Adecco for $100 million, and Archer Aviation, an eVTOL aircraft startup that went public via a SPAC merger in 2021.
Hark has assembled a team of about 70 engineers and designers, poaching talent from Apple, Meta, Google, and Tesla. Notably, the design is being led by Abidur Chowdhury, who previously worked on the iPhone Air at Apple. That Apple pedigree is not accidental -- Hark's entire strategy is modeled on vertical integration: own the models, own the hardware, own the experience.
The round and who is in it
The round was oversubscribed and 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. That investor list is not just a who's who of venture -- it is a strategic supply chain. Having NVIDIA, AMD, Intel Capital, and Qualcomm Ventures all in the same cap table effectively gives Hark preferential relationships with every major chip supplier in the AI hardware ecosystem.
- Round size: Over $700 million
- Post-money valuation: $6 billion
- Round type: Series A (oversubscribed)
- Lead investor: Parkway Venture Capital
- Strategic chip investors: NVIDIA, AMD Ventures, Intel Capital, Qualcomm Ventures
- Founder's prior personal investment: $100 million of Adcock's own capital
- Team size: ~70 employees
What Hark is actually building
Hark has secured a new NVIDIA B200 data center for model training and plans to release its first AI models later this summer. The models are described as agentic and multimodal -- meaning they can process text, speech, and vision simultaneously, and take actions autonomously rather than just answering questions. The company says its models will be "agentic and multimodal, built to remember who you are and what you say,
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