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The first 100,000 sign-ups get a paid plan for free","sourceName":"X / @adcock_brett","publishedAt":"2026-10-04"},{"url":"https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/2107220541400814028","title":"Brett Adcock on Hark Pro premiere","sourceName":"X/@adcock_brett","publishedAt":"2026-10-05"},{"url":"https://apps.apple.com/us/app/hark-pro/id6772362941","title":"Hark Pro on the App Store","sourceName":"Apple App Store","publishedAt":"2026-10-06"}],"keyFacts":[{"label":"Funding","value":"$700M Series A (May 2026) at $6B valuation"},{"label":"Founder","value":"Brett Adcock (also founder/CEO of Figure AI)"},{"label":"CEO","value":"Brett Adcock (also founder/CEO of Figure AI)"},{"label":"Employees","value":"70 (as of May 2026)"},{"label":"GPU cluster","value":"Nvidia B200 GPUs"},{"label":"Director of Design","value":"Abidur Chowdhury (former Apple designer, led iPhone Air design team)"},{"label":"Self-funded seed","value":"$100M (Adcock personal capital, December 2025)"},{"label":"Series A","value":"$700M at $6B post-money valuation (May 2026, led by Parkway Venture Capital)"},{"label":"Product status","value":"Pre-product; first multimodal models expected summer 2026, hardware to follow"},{"label":"Investors","value":"Parkway Venture Capital (lead), Nvidia, Align Ventures, AMD Ventures, ARK Invest, Brookfield, Greycroft, Intel Capital, Prime Movers Lab, Qualcomm Ventures, Salesforce Ventures, Tamarack Global"},{"label":"Hero image candidate","value":"https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Screenshot-2026-03-24-at-6.20.59-AM.png (source: TechCrunch/Hark press)"},{"label":"Handoff launch","value":"Aug 5, 2026 — Hark Handoff computer-use agent announced; top score on Online-Mind2Web (97.7), WebTailBench v2 (68.6), Internal (83.2)"},{"label":"Handoff capabilities","value":"Orders food on DoorDash/Uber Eats, books flights on United/Delta/American, researches and recruits on LinkedIn; operates via dedicated virtual computer"},{"label":"Token cost","value":"Less than 1/10th the token price of frontier models (company-reported)"},{"label":"Launch slated for week of Oct 5 2026; first 100,000 sign-ups get a paid plan free (company-stated)","value":"Company-stated ([company-stated](https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/2106889503919292529)): founder Brett Adcock posted Oct 4 2026 that \"Hark launches this week\" and that the first 100,000 sign-ups get a paid plan for free, with a waitlist at hark.com. Cap: no exact date, plan tier, or free-plan duration disclosed; follows the Aug 5 2026 Handoff research preview."},{"label":"Hark Pro premiere Oct 6 2026 at 9am; App Store listing by Hark Labs Inc (company-stated, Oct 2026)","value":"Company-stated ([company-stated](https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/2107220541400814028); also [App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/hark-pro/id6772362941)): founder Brett Adcock posted on Oct 5 2026 that Hark would premiere Hark Pro at 9am the next day and that users could get it right after. The Apple App Store lists Hark Pro from Hark Labs Inc for iPhone, iPad and Mac. 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