Company
Hark
Hark is an AI lab founded by [Figure AI](/companies/figure-ai) CEO Brett Adcock in late 2025, building personalized AI models and dedicated hardware devices…
- Founded
- 2025
- HQ
- San Jose, USA
- Status
- private (UK; industrial AI)
Funding
$800.0M
Models
1
Overview
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.
Verified record
- Verified deployments
- None on file
- Active incidents
- None on file
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Key facts
Funding
$700M Series A (May 2026) at $6B valuation
Founder
Brett Adcock (also founder/CEO of Figure AI)
CEO
Brett Adcock (also founder/CEO of Figure AI)
Employees
70 (as of May 2026)
GPU cluster
Nvidia B200 GPUs
Director of Design
Abidur Chowdhury (former Apple designer, led iPhone Air design team)
Self-funded seed
$100M (Adcock personal capital, December 2025)
Series A
$700M at $6B post-money valuation (May 2026, led by Parkway Venture Capital)
Product status
Pre-product; first multimodal models expected summer 2026, hardware to follow
Investors
Parkway Venture Capital (lead), Nvidia, Align Ventures, AMD Ventures, ARK Invest, Brookfield, Greycroft, Intel Capital, Prime Movers Lab, Qualcomm Ventures, Salesforce Ventures, Tamarack Global
Hero image candidate
techcrunch.com (source: TechCrunch/Hark press)
Data & sources
News coverage
1
1 source backing this record.View all →
Models (1)
View all models →Hark on the deployment map
Where Hark's robots are verified operating. Explore the deployment map by place and type.
Relationships
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.
Only active incidents are counted. Retracted incidents are excluded from this summary but remain reachable at their canonical URLs.
Full safety record: incidents, sourcing, and exposure data →
Recent coverage
Hark in third-party press
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
Each numeric field carries its own basis marker. Aggregators report a number; this surface preserves the source class so verification depth travels with the value.
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)
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.
- What does Hark make?
- Hark has 1 robot model on the DEPLOY registry: Hark Universal AI Assistant (Hark builds physical robots).
- Is Hark publicly traded?
- No. Hark is privately held and not publicly traded, per the DEPLOY registry.
- Who competes with Hark?
- On the DEPLOY registry, peer companies to Hark building in the same form factors include DJI, Boston Dynamics, ATI Industrial Automation, August Robotics.
- Where is Hark headquartered?
- Hark is headquartered in San Jose, USA.
- How much funding has Hark raised?
- Hark has raised approximately $800M in disclosed funding on record in the DEPLOY registry.
- 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.
- Is Hark a top robotics company?
- On DEPLOY's intelligence score, which blends verified deployments, funding, hiring, media, safety, and IP signals, Hark ranks in roughly the top 2% of companies tracked by the registry.
- When was Hark founded?
- Hark was founded in 2025.
- Is Hark safe?
- Hark has no incidents on record in the DEPLOY registry. This does not constitute a safety guarantee; it reflects the incidents DEPLOY has tracked and verified to date.
Methodology: Verified · 1 source (no primary) · last reviewed 2026-07-09
Verification posture
Verified
Low confidence
Review state
Stable
Last reviewed 2026-07-09
Sources by quality tier
- 1
- secondary-industry-publication
- Industry publication
The framework is documented at /methodology. Corrections at /corrections. Reviewer: DEPLOY editorial team.
Methodology surface for Hark.Peer companies
- DJI7 models
- Boston Dynamics5 models
- ATI Industrial Automation2 models
- August Robotics2 models
- Embodied2 models
- EverestLabs2 models
In the press
Recent coverage mentioning Hark from third-party publications. Automatically surfaced; not part of the verified registry record.
BYD’s first pickup goes on sale for $63,000 in the UK, with more EV range than the Ford Ranger
BYD launched the Shark, its first pickup in the UK and across Europe, priced from about $63,000, with 56 miles of pure-electric range. Powered by its Super Hybrid plug-in…
Hark's $6 Billion Valuation With No Product Actually Makes Sense
Forbes analysis arguing Hark's $700M Series A at $6B valuation is driven by the capital moat strategy and Adcock's track record rather than product traction.
The Man Who Wants to Write the Operating System for Physical Work
Analysis of Brett Adcock's vision for Hark as an AI lab reframing humanoids as infrastructure, with robot fleets learning collectively.
Hark raises $700M Series A for its secretive 'universal' AI interface
Hark raised a $700M Series A at a $6B post-money valuation led by Parkway Venture Capital, with participation from Nvidia, AMD, Intel, Qualcomm, and others.
Figure AI's CEO just raised $700 million for his next big bet
Business Insider coverage of Hark's $700M Series A, noting Adcock's personal $100M seed investment and plans for AI models and hardware devices.
Meet the former Apple designer building a new AI interface at Hark
TechCrunch profile of Hark's Director of Design Abidur Chowdhury, a former Apple industrial designer who led the iPhone Air design team, detailing Hark's vision for a universal AI…
Machine-readable surfaces
- Markdown mirror: /companies/hark.md
- RSS feed: /companies/hark/feed.xml
- JSON-LD: embedded in this page’s head
- REST API: /v1/companies/a374284b-4f82-4a68-857f-f6b1bac01387
- Revision history: /companies/hark/history
- Data documentation: /data
- Query this programmatically: Deploy MCP
Peer companies
- DJI7 models
- Boston Dynamics5 models
- ATI Industrial Automation2 models
- August Robotics2 models
- Embodied2 models
- EverestLabs2 models
Video
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Reality vs attention
Hark draws attention at the 95th percentile but verifies reality at the insufficient-data level among other robots.
6-month trend
Analysis
Well-capitalized with $800M raised and recent funding activity. Broad public reach with 1.6M video views.
Signal flags
Dimension breakdown
Verified signal
Attention (reach, not merit)
DEPLOY Intelligence scores are computed from verified registry data: confirmed deployments, disclosed funding rounds, regulatory filings, active job listings, video viewership, and press coverage. Confidence ratings reflect data availability. Scores update nightly.
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Last computed: Jul 14, 2026