ARK Invest, the investment manager focused on disruptive innovation and founded by Cathie Wood, and Securitize Corp. (NYSE: SECZ), the world's leader in tokenized assets, announced the tokenization of the ARK Venture Fund (ARKVX) through Securitize.

The 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 — the representation of assets such as fund shares as digital tokens recorded on a blockchain — can modernize how investment products are accessed, owned, and managed.

About theK Venture Fund

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. The interval structure periodically offers to repurchase a limited portion of outstanding shares, a design suited to portfolios holding assets that do not trade on public exchanges. Its portfolio includes positions in leading technology and innovation companies such as OpenAI, Anthropic, Stripe, and Databricks, among others. Fund holdings are subject to change.

Through the tokenization of ARKVX, eligible investors accessing the fund through Securitize can gain exposure to this actively managed portfolio via blockchain-based infrastructure. Upon release, tokenized ARKVX will be available on Ethereum, with Securitize providing the infrastructure supporting its onchain issuance and investor experience; the announcement did not specify a release date, and details are published on Securitize's official page at For Securitize, ARKVX extends a tokenization platform that has already carried tokenized funds from major traditional managers, including BlackRock's BUIDL fund, which launched on Ethereum in 2024.

Leadership Perspectives

"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."

"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 established investment products onto modern capital markets infrastructure."

Background on the Partnership

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