About Hark
Hark was founded around 2024-2025 by Brett Adcock, the serial entrepreneur behind electric aircraft company Archer Aviation and humanoid robotics company Figure AI, who began funding the venture personally before it emerged more publicly with a very large Series A funding round. The company has been unusually secretive about the specifics of what it's building, but has described its ambition as developing a new category of "personal AI" system that integrates custom-built foundation models, software, and purpose-built hardware together as a single unified product, rather than building only a software layer on top of existing devices or only hardware paired with a third-party AI model, the company has stated that it intends to integrate custom models, software, and hardware in a single platform.
Hark has stated its intention to release its first multimodal AI models in the near term as a precursor to an eventual hardware device, positioning itself within a small but closely watched category of AI hardware startups attempting to build new physical form factors and interfaces for AI, a category that has seen several prior high-profile product failures, including Humane's AI Pin and the Rabbit R1, both of which launched to significant early hype but ultimately struggled to demonstrate compelling, durable product-market fit relative to AI capabilities increasingly available through existing smartphones. Adcock's argument for why Hark might succeed where these predecessors struggled rests partly on his track record shipping complex hardware products at both Archer and Figure, and on the thesis that building custom silicon, models, and software together from day one, rather than combining off-the-shelf components, is the version of this bet most likely to produce a genuinely differentiated and defensible product. Hark raised more than $700 million in a Series A round led by Parkway Venture Capital in 2026, valuing the company at roughly $6 billion, with participation from a striking roster of major chip and technology strategic investors including Nvidia, AMD Ventures, Intel Capital, Qualcomm Ventures, and Salesforce Ventures, an unusually large and strategically diverse investor base for a company that had not yet shipped a public product.
