Hark Raises Over $700 Million Series A at $6 Billion Valuation to…

Team S · 2026-05-22T15:06:20.000Z

San Jose-based AI startup Hark has secured more than $700 million in Series A funding at a $6 billion post-money valuation as it accelerates development of advanced personalized AI systems and next-generation AI-native hardware. The oversubscribed round was 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. Founded by Brett Adcock, Hark is building multimodal AI systems designed to function as a “universal interface between humans and machines.” The company combines proprietary foundation models, personalized memory systems, speech, vision, and custom-built hardware to create deeply individualized AI experiences beyond traditional chatbot interfaces. Hark stated that the fresh capital will support AI model training, hardware development, infrastructure expansion, and hiring across research, engineering, and product teams. The company has already secured a dedicated NVIDIA B200 GPU data center to train its next generation of models and plans to launch its first multimodal AI systems later this summer. The startup is increasingly being viewed as one of the emerging challengers in the race to define the next generation of AI-native computing platforms integrating software, hardware, memory, and autonomous intelligence into unified consumer experiences. The funding highlights surging investor appetite for frontier AI infrastructure startups building personalized AI agents, multimodal systems, AI hardware, and next-generation human-computer interaction technologies.

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