ARK Tokenizes $1.3B Venture Fund Through Securitize Partnership
ARK Invest has taken a significant step in tokenizing its $1.3 billion venture fund through Securitize, an onchain platform.
The ARK Venture Fund invests across private and public technology companies, including OpenAI, Anthropic, Stripe, and Databricks.
This move tokenizes the ownership and administration of the existing fund rather than creating a new crypto fund, with ARKVX being the actively managed closed-end interval fund focused on disruptive innovation.
Securitize will provide the tokenization infrastructure, allowing fund interests to be represented and administered onchain while maintaining the underlying investment strategy.
This is not ARK launching a cryptocurrency or turning the private companies themselves into freely tradeable tokens, but rather tokenizing the fund interest.
The launch follows ARK's strategic investment in Securitize in 2025, and it arrives as large asset managers increasingly experiment with blockchain infrastructure for products that already exist in traditional finance.