Hark Valuation, Funding & Investors

SandboxAQ is a software company that builds Large Quantitative Models, AI systems trained on physics, chemistry and biology rather than on language, and sells them with quantum-related technology for cybersecurity, drug discovery, materials science, navigation and medical diagnostics. It began as a group inside Alphabet and became an independent company in March 2022, with Eric Schmidt as chairman and Jack Hidary as chief executive. Its products include AQtive Guard for managing cryptography and migrating to post-quantum standards, simulation platforms for molecules and materials, AQNav for navigation without satellite signals and AQMed for healthcare. Customers come from pharmaceuticals, chemicals, defense, energy, finance and telecommunications. The company has acquired Cryptosense and Good Chemistry, invests in quantum startups through a strategic investment program and counts investors such as Breyer Capital, T. Rowe Price, Google and NVIDIA. It signed a definitive agreement with the US Department of Commerce in June 2026 for a CHIPS research and development award.

Presight AI Holding PLC provides digital transformation services through big data analytics powered by artificial intelligence. It combines analytics, big data and AI expertise to serve every sector of every scale, to create business and societal value. The group’s world-class omni-analytics platform, TAQ, leverages big data and analytics to deliver cutting-edge Al technology, enabling forecasting and the anticipation of outcomes to support insight-driven, decision making that shapes policy and delivers societal impact.

Ineffable Intelligence builds machine learning systems that learn via reinforcement learning through interaction and experience in simulated or real environments. These systems form a superlearner capable of autonomous knowledge generation, adaptation, and problem-solving across domains.

Recursive Superintelligence is an AI research firm building systems that autonomously improve via recursive self-learning. Its frameworks automate the AI development lifecycle, including experiment design, model training, evaluation, and optimization in feedback loops. The technology reduces manual engineering for scalable applications in research, enterprise deployment, and data-driven settings.

Fal is a San Francisco-headquartered generative media platform providing AI tools for developers to create audio, video, and images. The service supports rapid inference via APIs compatible with models like Stable Diffusion and Llama, enabling seamless integration into apps for content generation. Fal optimizes GPU resources for high-speed media production in creative and production workflows.

Legora is a Swedish legal technology company headquartered in Stockholm that sells an agentic operating system for legal work. It was founded in 2023 as Leya by Max Junestrand, Sigge Labor and August Erseus and took the Legora name in 2025. Law firms and in-house legal teams use the platform for research, document review, drafting and workflow automation, through a Word add-in, an editor and other tools. Legora serves more than 2,000 customers in over 80 markets, employs more than 1,000 people in 18 offices and reports annual recurring revenue above 200 million dollars. It raised a 550 million dollar Series E at an 8.8 billion dollar valuation in October 2026. In 2026 it acquired Walter, Qura, Graceview, Cadastral and Wexler to extend the platform.

Instinct is a San Francisco start-up that builds a personal AI assistant, legally operated by Spear Street Technology Inc. and founded by Noah Shinn, a former Sierra employee. The assistant takes requests by text, phone call or WhatsApp and then uses a phone and a computer much as a person would, handling email, calendars, bookings, grocery orders and other everyday tasks. Access has been invite-only since a private beta that began in February 2026, and the company has about 14 employees. It raised a seed round at a $50 million valuation, a $75 million Series A led by Kleiner Perkins at $500 million, a $250 million Series B co-led by Index Ventures and Benchmark at $2.5 billion in August 2026, and a $1 billion Series C from Sequoia Capital, Benchmark and Coatue at $10 billion in September 2026. No acquisition or investment made by the company itself is documented.

SambaNova is a Palo Alto-headquartered enterprise AI company providing full-stack solutions from Reconfigurable Dataflow Unit silicon like the 2023 SN40L chip to software platforms including Samba Cloud for instant inference on models such as Llama and Qwen, SambaStack for on-premise deployments, and SambaManaged for efficient data center AI services deployable in 90 days.

Thinking Machines Lab is a Boston-based artificial intelligence research firm building customizable multimodal AI systems for human collaboration. Founded in 2020, it develops products that integrate vision, language, and reasoning capabilities, adapting to diverse expertise in fields like engineering and design. The lab's open-source contributions and enterprise tools enhance AI transparency and generalizability for research institutions and tech companies.

Lovable is a Stockholm-based software platform that uses artificial intelligence to generate full-stack web applications from natural language descriptions. Launched in 2024, it supports building apps with built-in authentication, databases, and deployment to platforms like Vercel. The tool targets developers and non-technical users in sectors such as technology, finance, and healthcare, enabling rapid prototyping of customer-facing products like dashboards and e-commerce sites.

Ncino Inc is a provider of cloud-based software for financial institutions. Its software solution digitizes, automates, and streamlines inefficient and complex processes & workflows and utilizes data analytics & artificial intelligence that enables financial institutions to onboard new clients, make loans, and manage the entire loan life cycle, open deposits, and other accounts, and manage regulatory compliance. It also offers professional services, including configuration & implementation, training, and advisory services. The company generates the majority of its revenue from subscription services. The company caters to financial institutions, enterprise banks, regional banks, community banks, and credit unions. The vast majority of its revenue comes from the United States.

Sierra is a San Francisco company that builds conversational AI agents for customer service and sales, founded in 2023 by Bret Taylor, the former co-chief executive of Salesforce and chairman of OpenAI, and Clay Bavor, a longtime Google executive. Its platform lets large companies build branded agents that handle customer conversations over chat, voice and other channels, take actions in company systems and improve over time. Customers include SiriusXM, Sonos, ADT, WeightWatchers, SoFi, Nordstrom, Cigna and Singtel, and the company says it serves more than 40 percent of the Fortune 50. It launched in February 2024 and passed 100 million dollars of annual recurring revenue in 2025 and 150 million in 2026. Investors include Sequoia Capital, Benchmark, Greenoaks, Thrive Capital, ICONIQ, GV and Tiger Global. It raised 950 million dollars in a Series E in May 2026 at a valuation of more than 15 billion dollars. It acquired the voice-agent company Receptive AI in 2025 and the long-horizon agent company Takeoff in 2026.

FluidStack delivers a leading AI cloud platform with supercomputing infrastructure for AI labs, governments, and enterprises, serving clients like Mistral, Meta, and Black Forest Labs.

Kling AI is a creative studio that produces images and videos using sophisticated artificial intelligence methods.

C3.ai Inc is an enterprise artificial intelligence company. The company provides software-as-a-service applications that enable customers to rapidly develop, deploy, and operate large-scale Enterprise AI applications across any infrastructure. It provides solutions under three divisions, namely, The C3 AI Platform, which is an end-to-end application development and runtime environment for designing, developing, and deploying AI applications; C3 AI Applications, which is a portfolio of pre-built, extensible, industry-specific, and application-specific Enterprise AI applications; and C3 Generative AI, which combines the utility of large language models. Geographically, the company derives revenue from North America, Europe, the Middle East and Africa, Asia Pacific, and the Rest of the World.

Perplexity AI is a San Francisco software company founded in 2022 that develops a web-connected answer engine. Its product combines large language models with real-time retrieval and presents responses with links to underlying sources. Consumers can use a free service or pay for advanced models, deeper research and higher usage limits. Enterprise customers buy search across public and private information, administrative controls and collaboration features. Perplexity also offers Sonar application-programming interfaces so developers can add grounded search and answer generation to other products. Its Comet browser extends the service into agent-assisted browsing and task execution. The company therefore earns subscription and usage-based revenue from consumer, enterprise and developer products rather than advertising-led ranked links.

Beijing Haizhi Technology Group Co Ltd focuses on developing intelligent agent technologies and artificial intelligence solutions based on graph computing and model integration technologies. Its products are used in finance, energy, manufacturing, transportation, healthcare, and public services. The company operates as a high-technology enterprise principally engaged in provision of: (i) Atlas graph solutions, which include a data management and computing platform, a knowledge graph platform, and a graph database based on graph computing and data analysis technologies; and (ii) Atlas AI agent solutions developed using graph and large language model integration technology. The majority of the revenue is derived from the Atlas Graph Solutions.

ElevenLabs is a London and Warsaw-headquartered AI company providing voice synthesis, cloning, dubbing, and generation tools. Its platform supports text-to-speech in over 29 languages, developer APIs for voice agents, and enterprise solutions for content localization. Features include instant voice cloning from short audio samples, emotional tone preservation, and audio editing capabilities used by creators and businesses worldwide.