Hark

Current leadership (2)

• Brett Adcock Founder & CEOreported, not verified
• Abidur Chowdhury Director of Designreported, not verified

Founders (1)

• Brett Adcockcofounder

Safety record

No incidents on record for Hark.

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Peer companies

• DJI7 models
• Boston Dynamics5 models
• ATI Industrial Automation2 models
• August Robotics2 models
• Embodied2 models
• EverestLabs2 models

Financial state

Reporting basis

private_reported

Lifecycle stage

early

Counterparty risk class

moderate

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Funding rounds (2)

• Series A2026-05-21

  $700M(reported) · $6.0B post

  Investors: Parkway Venture Capital, Nvidia, Align Ventures, AMD Ventures, ARK Invest, Brookfield Asset Management, Greycroft, Intel Capital, Prime Movers Lab, Qualcomm Ventures, Salesforce Ventures, Tamarack Global

• Seed2025-12-18

  $100M(reported)

  Investors: Brett Adcock (self-funded) (lead), Brett Adcock

Sources (1)

1. https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/21/hark-raises-700m-series-a-for-its-secretive-universal-ai-interface/ ↗

Common questions

What is Hark?

Hark is an AI lab founded by Figure AI CEO Brett Adcock in late 2025, building personalized AI models and dedicated hardware devices for a "universal" agentic AI assistant. Self-funded with $100M of Adcock's own capital, Hark raised a $700M Series A at a $6B post-money valuation in May 2026 led by Parkway Venture Capital, with participation from Nvidia, AMD, Intel, and Qualcomm. The company expects to release its first multimodal models in summer 2026, followed by purpose-built hardware devices.

Where is Hark based?

Hark is based in San Jose, USA.

When was Hark founded?

Hark was founded in 2025.

What does Hark make?

Hark has 1 robot model on the DEPLOY registry: Hark Universal AI Assistant (Hark builds physical robots).

Where does Hark operate robots?

Hark is a robot manufacturer and does not directly operate deployments on the DEPLOY registry. Its products are deployed by customer operators; see the company page for the verified deployment record.