| Date | Title | Description |
| 05.08.2026 | AI startup Hark unveils first product: an affordable, fast computer use agent Hark Handoff | Hark, the secretive AI startup founded earlier this year by serial entrepreneur and roboticist Brett Adcock, today announced Handoff, a "computer use agent" (CUA) that it says is among the top-performing in the world at navigating... |
| 25.05.2026 | Hark Secures Monumental $700M Series A, Valuing AI Pioneer at $6 Billion | Hark, an ambitious AI laboratory, has announced a staggering $700 million Series A funding round. This landmark investment catapults the company's post-money valuation to an impressive $6 billion. The oversubscribed round saw participation ... |
| 21.05.2026 | Hark Raises $700M in Series A Funding at a $6B Valuation | Hark, a San Jose, CA-based AI lab building advanced personalized intelligence, raised over $700m in Series A funding at a $6 billion post-money valuation.
The round was led by Parkway Venture Capital, with participation from NVIDIA, Align V... |
| 27.03.2025 | Hark Announced the Launch of Hark Insights | Hark, the leader in video and audio-driven customer feedback, announced the launch of Hark Insights, an AI-powered platform that transforms raw feedback into clear, actionable customer stories. By surfacing key themes instantly, Hark Insigh... |
| 17.10.2013 | Hark hits the wall: Corporate records list ‘void’ status, co-founder now at Amazon | David Aronchick
The story of Hark — a Seattle startup that was attempting to build the YouTube of audio clips and once claimed more than 45 million unique visitors — is a strange one. As we reported back in July, most of the audio clips, in... |
| 01.07.2013 | What’s up with Hark? Audio clip site goes radio silent as core content disappears | Something is going on at Hark.
The Seattle startup, known for its huge repository of sound bites, from classic movie quotes to historic speeches, laid off staffers last month. Its Twitter account has gone dark. And the site has removed seve... |
| 31.05.2013 | Lawsuit Over Who Gets Starbucks Tips | I imagine Mr. Pink doesn’t tip at Starbucks. Hell, I don’t “tip” at Starbucks. Occasionally, I don’t feel like having 30 cents clanging around in my pocket all day, so I throw it in the tip jar. But there’s only so much I can pay for a cup ... |
| 03.04.2013 | Recruiting developers: Perspectives from the startup front lines | Photo: Brenda Gottsabend
Recruiting developers to a startup is hard.
The market is tight. That’s compounded by the fact that it takes a special type of developer to work at a startup — someone who is comfortable with uncertainty and ambigui... |
| 01.04.2013 | April Fools 2013: The Ultimate Round-Up | Happy April First, errybody! Yes, that’s right, we’ve reached that special, inimitable time of year. April Fools Day 2013. At TechCrunch, we have a long history of taking April Fools seriously. Deadly, deadly seriously. So, we’ve taken it u... |
| 23.10.2012 | Horses and Bayonets: The top 10 sound bites from the Barack Obama-Mitt Romney debate | Last night’s final presidential debate produced some of the best zingers of the campaign, with President Barack Obama sounding off about “horses and bayonets” and former Governor Mitt Romney proclaiming that he likes “American cars.”
Tracki... |
| 21.06.2012 | Now Hear This: Hark Racks Up Hollywood Success (and Profits) | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
From its earliest days, sound-sharing website Hark.com had its sights set on Hollywood. And these days, the Seattle-based startup is hitting the mark—it’s profitable, counts a... |
| 07.06.2012 | Hark Strikes A Deal With Universal To Bring Your Favorite Movie Sound Bites Online | Hark, the online repository for audio clips, is getting more studio content Thursday, with a deal that will bring sound bites from Universal’s film library online. Hark will get access to about 100 Universal films, which it will cut up into... |
| 08.05.2012 | The Founders’ Promise: Put your money where your angst is | Will you take the Founders' Promise? Photo via Bigstock
“There is no reason why good cannot triumph as often as evil. The triumph of anything is a matter of organization. If there are such things as angels, I hope that they are organized al... |
| 11.04.2012 | Get to the Good Part: Hacker Invents a Way to Search Netflix For Nudity, Calls It BateFlix | Remember that scene in Knocked Up when Katherine Heigl helps Seth Rogen out with the Mr. Skin ripoff and starts yelling, “Boobs and bush! Boobs and bush!”? This is better. According to VentureBeat, some anonymous hacker decided to teach him... |
| 04.04.2012 | Hark inks deal to access movie audio clips from Warner Bros. | David Aronchick
Hark CEO David Aronchick recently disclosed that the company — essentially a YouTube of audio clips — topped 50 million monthly visitors. It was a significant milestone, but Aronchick isn’t stopping there.
The Seattle entrep... |
| 02.03.2012 | Hark tops 50 million visits as listeners tune in to audio clips of Obama and Whitney Houston | YouTube may be the king of online video. But Seattle upstart Hark is making a play to become the top destination for audio clips, including more than three million funny movie clips; offbeat TV quotes; poorly delivered political speeches an... |
| 11.11.2011 | Meet Wavii: The world’s longest-running stealth startup? | Over the course of the past few weeks, a couple people in the Seattle startup community have independently asked me the same question: Whatever happened to Wavii?
I first discovered the Adrian Aoun-led company back in July of 2010 — writing... |
| 07.11.2011 | Hark’s milestone: One billion fart noises, movie clips and other sounds | David Aronchick has heard his fair share of fart noises, movie quotes and classic TV one-liners over the years. And as the CEO of Hark — a Seattle startup that is best described as a YouTube of sound clips — Aronchick never really tires of ... |
| 07.11.2011 | Hark Sounds Off: 1 Billion Listens, and a Quietly Profitable Company | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Updated 11/11 with clarification
What does 1 billion sound like? At Seattle startup Hark, it’s this clip of Harry Potter deploying the “expelliarmus” spell to disarm an enemy.... |
| 16.09.2011 | A Day in the Life of the San Francisco Tech Community | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
My job is pretty cool. I get to spend time picking the brains of some of the planet’s smartest and most successful entrepreneurs—and invariably, I’m asking them to talk about ... |
| 24.06.2011 | Hark brings images to famous movie quotes, continues to build audio clip library | Hark, the Seattle startup formerly known as Entertonement, is expanding its library of audio clips to incorporate images from famous movie clips. The company also is rolling out a new way for users to quickly browse through special collecti... |
| 23.06.2011 | Hark’s New “Curated Collection” | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Seattle’s Hark, an entertainment website that lets users search, play and share audio snippets from movies, TV shows and other pop culture sources, is showing off a new design... |
| 03.05.2011 | The beauty of being lean: Tips and tricks from entrepreneurs | Tony Wright, left, Joe Heitzeberg and Mike Koss
Everyone wants to be lean. Not thin, trim or slender, just lean. The lean startup movement — heralded by author Eric Ries — operates on the premise that entrepreneurs are far better off when t... |
| 05.04.2011 | The art of the name change: David Aronchick explains the switch from Entertonement to Hark | David Aronchick
David Aronchick has one piece of advice for entrepreneurs when considering a new business moniker: “don’t name a company around a stupid pun that you come up with while joking around with your buddies.” That’s what led to En... |
| 15.09.2009 | TC50: Hark! Launches A Plugin To Bring Real-Time Sharing To Your Browser | Hark, a new startup that’s launching today at TechCrunch50, is looking to help friends share media and webpages with each other with as little friction as possible. The company offers a browser plugin that makes it easy to share links with ... |
| 15.09.2009 | TC50: Hark! lets friends web browse, share links together | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Hark! is browsing platform that allows many peopl... |
| 15.09.2009 | TC50: Hark! lets friends web browse, share links together | Hark! is browsing platform that allows many people to surf the web together. The company launched at the TechCrunch50 conference in San Francisco today.
Instead of sharing a link by copying and pasting it into Twitter or Facebook, Hark! let... |
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