Personalized AI models + dedicated consumer hardware — a 'universal' AI interface
AI📍 San Jose, CAFounded 2025
Current Valuation
$6.0B
as of May 2026
UNICORN
IPO Outlookprivate
Is Hark going public?
No. Hark has no imminent IPO plans on record. It is still private.
What is Hark's valuation in 2026?
Hark is valued at $6.0B as of May 2026, set by its Series A ($700M, May 2026). That is the last confirmed mark, not a live price — private shares do not trade continuously.
Has Hark filed an S-1?
No public S-1 is on file for Hark.
Who are Hark's investors?
Hark's investors include Parkway Venture Capital, NVIDIA, AMD Ventures, Intel Capital, Qualcomm Ventures, Salesforce Ventures and 6 more.
Answers are derived from the roster record shown on this page — filing status, last round and confirmed marks. Where the record is silent, the answer says so rather than guessing.
Hark is a San Jose-based AI lab founded in late 2025 by Brett Adcock (Figure AI, Archer Aviation) building personalized multimodal AI models and dedicated consumer hardware — an 'AI that knows you, speaks your language, and lives on hardware made for you.' Adcock seeded the company with $100M of his own capital before raising a $700M Series A at $6B post-money in May 2026, led by Parkway Venture Capital with NVIDIA, AMD Ventures, ARK Invest, Brookfield, Salesforce, Qualcomm, Intel Capital, Greycroft, Prime Movers Lab, and Tamarack Global participating. The 70-person team runs a data center on NVIDIA B200 GPUs and recruited former Apple iPhone Air designer Abidur Chowdhury as director of design, alongside hardware and AI engineers from Google, Meta, and Amazon. First multimodal models are scheduled for summer 2026; the hardware timeline is undisclosed. Figure AI's humanoids already use some Hark models, and Adcock has framed Hark's agentic AI work as foundational to scaling Figure's robots — a quiet operational tie between the two companies.
Company Profile
CEO
Brett Adcock
Founded
2025
HQ
San Jose, CA
Employees
~70
Total Raised
$800M
Growth
Pre-revenue — first models summer 2026, hardware TBD
Last Round
Series A — $700M (May 2026) · Lead: Parkway Venture Capital
IPO Status
no imminent plans
Fundraising Status
Series A · $700M · 3 mo ago
no imminent plansTotal raised $800M
Secondary Market
Implied price / share
$26.95
Last round price / share
$37.86
vs last round
-28.8%
Open interest
2
Last round price vs secondary price
Secondary price return by period
Implied per-share price from private secondary transactions, as of Jun 2026. This is a point estimate, not a quote — the feed carries no bid, ask or spread, and a secondary print is evidence of what someone paid on that date rather than a live market. Compare across every tracked name →
Latest Funding Round
Round
Amount
Date
Lead Investor
Post-Money
Series A
$700M
May 2026
Parkway Venture Capital
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Vertical Intelligence — AI / ML
No verified Hugging Face organization found for Hark — no attributable open-model footprint. Closed-weights labs are common; this is a distribution signal, not a capability judgment.
Checked huggingface.co as of 2026-08-19. Re-checked weekly.
Talent Signal
Hiring trend
▼ Hiring downtrend
4% of roles posted in last 30d
Open roles
51
via greenhouse
Product-build share
69%
engineering, research, product, design
Trajectory
tightening
heavy product build — 69% of open roles are product-building functions (engineering/research/product) — 22 of 51 open roles are engineering.
Open roles trending down; no tracked executive churn.
Open roles by month
Open roles by function
■ product-building ■ go-to-market / G&A
Acoustic Integration EngineerAI Safety EngineerAudio Firmware EngineerAudio Quality and Data Engineer Audio Software EngineerBackend Engineer
Counted from Hark's live job board as of 2026-08-17; role functions classified from posting titles. Open-role counts are an activity signal, not headcount. Refreshed monthly.
Founders & Key People
Brett Adcock
Investors
Parkway Venture Capital · NVIDIA · AMD Ventures · Intel Capital · Qualcomm Ventures · Salesforce Ventures · Brookfield Asset Management · ARK Invest · Greycroft · Prime Movers Lab · Align Ventures · Tamarack Global
Products
Personal AI platform (multimodal models, releasing summer 2026)
AI hardware devices (timeline undisclosed)
Agentic AI interface designed to work across existing products + services
Nvidia B200 GPU data-center infrastructure
Competitors
OpenAI io (Jony Ive collaboration) · Apple AI devices · Google AI hardware · Meta Ray-Ban / smart glasses · Anthropic · Humane (now defunct) · Rabbit · Friend
AIConsumer HardwareMultimodalUnicornAdcock
Private-company numbers are not real-time. Reflects publicly disclosed valuations from press releases, news reports, and tender offers as of May 2026. Refreshed quarterly.