May 21, 2026

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Hark is an AI lab founded by Figure AI CEO Brett Adcock, building a personal intelligence platform and bespoke hardware that aims to serve as a universal interface to AI assistants. The company is developing multimodal models that integrate with existing services, and operates an Nvidia B200 GPU data center to train them.

Shatterdome Energy is a San Francisco-based AI-driven energy trading and intelligence startup, emerging from stealth in May 2026 to build an optimization platform for battery storage assets in wholesale power markets.

MOTO Pizza is a Seattle-based Detroit-style pizza chain founded in 2021 by Lee Kindell and Nancy Gambin, known for blending Filipino-influenced toppings with in-store robotic assembly. The company operates locations across West Seattle, Belltown, Edmonds, Pioneer Square and at T-Mobile Park, and is now spinning out a dedicated robotics venture, Motobotics, to build pizza-making robots in-house.

FundCanna is a San Diego-based specialty finance platform that provides working capital, equipment, vendor, dispensary, and inventory loans to cannabis operators across the United States. Founded by Adam Stettner, the company underwrites the full cannabis supply chain — multi-state operators, manufacturers, distributors, and retailers — and also runs ReadyPaid, a buy-now-pay-later product aimed at the multibillion-dollar pool of delinquent receivables in cannabis wholesale. It has originated more than 5,000 transactions and deployed over $250M since launch.