ARK Invest Tokenizes ARK Venture Fund With Securitize

ARK Invest has tokenized its ARK Venture Fund (ARKVX) through Securitize, putting one of Cathie Wood's flagship strategies onchain and giving eligible investors blockchain-based access to a portfolio that holds OpenAI, Anthropic, Stripe and Databricks. The companies announced the move in Miami on Sept. 24, 2026.

The ARK Venture Fund is an actively managed, closed-end interval fund seeking long-term capital growth by investing across private and public companies aligned with disruptive innovation. With the tokenization, eligible investors accessing the fund through Securitize can gain exposure to that 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.

The deal extends a relationship that began with money. ARK Invest's strategic investment in Securitize, announced in October 2025, laid the groundwork for the collaboration. Through that stake, the two firms committed to advancing institutional adoption of tokenized securities, broadening access to regulated investment products and strengthening capital markets infrastructure.

"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."

Securitize (S SECZ) is the self-described world leader in tokenized assets, with approximately $5 billion in assets under management as of August 2026. The company runs tokenized funds with top-tier managers including Apollo, BlackRock, BNY, Hamilton Lane, KKR and VanEck. It says it is the only company operating regulated digital-securities infrastructure in both the U.S. and the EU, and it earned spots on the Forbes 2026 Fintech 50 and CNBC World's Top Fintech Companies 2026 lists.

ARK Investment Management LLC, headquartered in St. Petersburg, Florida, is a federally registered investment adviser founded by Cathie Wood in 2014. The firm focuses solely on disruptive innovation, targeting large-scale opportunities across artificial intelligence, robotics, energy storage, multiomic sequencing, blockchain technology and beyond.

The fund structure carries constraints investors should weigh. The ARK Venture Fund is a non-diversified closed-end interval fund. Its shares are not listed on a securities exchange, no secondary market is expected to develop, and liquidity is limited to periodic repurchase offers that may be oversubscribed. Eligibility and other restrictions apply.

Eligible investors can learn more about ARKVX's availability through Securitize at securitize.io/arkvx. The move signals how tokenization is moving from stablecoin and Treasury-bill experiments toward venture exposure to the most closely watched private AI companies — and positions Securitize to keep converting marquee asset managers into onchain issuers.