ARK’s Venture Strategy Goes Onchain, Bringing Investors Exposure to Leading Private and Public Tech Companies and Advancing ARK Invest’s Partnership with Securitize

ARK Invest, the disruptive innovation-focused investment manager founded by Cathie Wood, and Securitize Corp., the world’s leader in tokenized assets, announce the tokenization of the ARK Venture Fund (ARKVX) through Securitize.

This launch brings one of ARK’s flagship investment strategies onchain and marks the next phase of a relationship built around a shared conviction that tokenization can modernize how investment products are accessed, owned, and managed.

The ARK Venture Fund is an actively managed closed-end interval fund that seeks long-term growth of capital by investing across private and public companies aligned with disruptive innovation. Its portfolio includes investments in leading technology and innovation companies such as OpenAI, Anthropic, Stripe, and Databricks, among others. Through the tokenization of ARKVX, eligible investors accessing the Fund through Securitize can gain exposure to this actively managed portfolio through blockchain-based infrastructure. Fund holdings are subject to change.

“Tokenizing the ARK Venture Fund puts our conviction in the evolution, if not revolution, of capital markets into practice,” said Cathie Wood, Founder, CEO and CIO of ARK Invest. “Based on our research, tokenization has the potential to reshape fundamentally the way that investors access and participate in both private and public financial markets. Making the ARK Venture Fund available onchain is a natural extension of our mission to democratize access to technologically enabled disruptive innovation. Because it has built the regulated infrastructure to help make that vision a reality, we are excited to partner with Securitize in taking this important step forward.”

Upon release, tokenized ARKVX will be available on Ethereum, with Securitize providing the infrastructure supporting its onchain issuance and investor experience.

“ARK has built its business around identifying transformative technologies early and then acting with conviction,” said Carlos Domingo, Co-Founder and CEO of Securitize. “ARK’s strategic investment in Securitize reflected a shared belief in the potential for tokenization to transform capital markets, and today we are putting that conviction into practice. Bringing ARKVX onchain demonstrates how leading asset managers can use tokenization to move established investment products onto modern capital markets infrastructure.”

ARK Invest’s strategic investment in Securitize, announced in October 2025, laid the groundwork for this expanded collaboration. Through that investment, they committed to advancing institutional adoption of tokenized securities, broadening access to regulated investment products, and strengthening capital markets infrastructure.

Source: Securitize