AI research lab Hark has raised an oversubscribed $700 million Series A round at a $6 billion post-money valuation to build a vertically integrated personal intelligence ecosystem. Led by Parkway Venture Capital with heavy participation from semiconductor giants NVIDIA, AMD Ventures, and Intel Capital, the capitalization will fund the concurrent development of proprietary foundation models, system software, and native consumer hardware. Founded by serial entrepreneur Brett Adcock, the startup aims to bypass traditional, cloud-isolated chat APIs by designing a full-stack, agentic computing platform featuring persistent memory layers capable of reducing individual cognitive workloads.
The company’s commercial strategy hinges on a vertically integrated product architecture that bypasses traditional, disconnected consumer devices and standard chat application interfaces. Instead of developing software within an isolated layer of the AI stack, Hark is designing foundation models, interface systems, software, and physical computing hardware simultaneously. The system builds persistent memory layers to track personal user contexts, aiming to deploy agentic software that operates as a collaborative partner to reduce individual cognitive workloads.
The capital injection will establish a commercial production timeline for the startup’s hardware and software ecosystem. Hark plans to initiate the rollout of its baseline AImodels later this summer, granting early testers access to its core personal software platform. Following the software release, the firm will deploy native hardware accessories specifically manufactured to run these integrated data networks. “We’re building the AI that everyone deserves but no one has built yet — one that actually knows you, speaks your language, is highly personalized, and lives on hardware made for you,” stated Brett Adcock, Founder and CEO of Hark.