ARK Invest Tokenizes $1.3B Venture Fund Through Securitize

ARK Invest is tokenizing its ARK Venture Fund with approximately 1.3 billion dollars in assets, investing in both private and public technology companies such as OpenAI, Anthropic, Stripe, and Databricks. This initiative tokenizes ownership and administration of the existing fund rather than creating a new crypto fund.

ARKVX is an actively managed closed-end interval fund focused on disruptive innovation, maintaining its investment strategy while allowing fund interests to be represented and administered onchain. This does not involve launching a cryptocurrency or turning the underlying private companies into freely tradable tokens; instead, the fund interest itself is being tokenized.

The tokenization can alter how the investment product is issued, held, and transferred without changing the legal nature of the underlying securities. This move follows ARK's strategic investment in Securitize in 2025 and aligns with a trend among large asset managers experimenting with blockchain infrastructure for existing financial products.

While tokenized fund interests do not inherently resolve liquidity or investor-eligibility issues, they can enhance administrative processes. This marks ARK's first fund to transition onchain through Securitize, testing whether tokenization can integrate into mainstream investment product infrastructure.