# Hark raises $700M Series A for its secretive 'universal' AI interface

_Friday, June 26, 2026 at 12:56 AM EDT · Startups · Latest · Tier 2 — Notable_

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Hark raised $700 million in a Series A round that values the company at $6 billion post-money. 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.

Founder and CEO Brett Adcock, who previously founded Figure.AI and Archer, launched Hark in late 2025 with $100 million of his own money. The company is developing an agentic AI system designed to serve as a universal interface with the digital world.

Hark expects to release its first multimodal models this summer. Those models are intended to power a personal AI platform that works with existing products and services, with hardware devices for the systems planned to follow.

The funding will support recruitment of talent in hardware, product design and AI research, as well as the purchase of compute and components. The company has 70 employees and operates a data center with Nvidia B200 GPUs.

Abidur Chowdhury, Hark's director of design and a former Apple product executive, said a series of team demos impressed investors. He noted that current AI tools focus mainly on helping people build software rather than assisting ordinary users.

Chowdhury said few companies concentrate solely on interfaces and native hardware in the manner Hark intends. He cited the challenge of supplying an AI assistant with a user's personal context without causing discomfort to those nearby or violating privacy.

When asked how the company might address that privacy issue, Chowdhury smiled and said a solution would make a great product.

## Sources

- [TechCrunch](https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/21/hark-raises-700m-series-a-for-its-secretive-universal-ai-interface/)

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