ARK Invest and Securitize Tokenize ARK Venture Fund on Ethereum

ARK Invest and Securitize Corp. (SECZ ) announced on September 24, 2026 the tokenization of the ARK Venture Fund (ARKVX) through Securitize, according to the companies’ announcement posted on Securitize’s investor-relations site. Upon release, tokenized ARKVX will be available on Ethereum, with Securitize providing the infrastructure supporting its onchain issuance and investor experience.

The companies described the launch as bringing one of ARK’s flagship investment strategies onchain and as 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, non-diversified closed-end interval fund that seeks long-term growth of capital by investing across private and public companies aligned with disruptive innovation. ARK defines disruptive innovation as the introduction of a technologically enabled new product or service that potentially changes the way the world works, and the fund’s stated theme areas include artificial intelligence and next-generation internet, space and defense innovation, autonomous technology and robotics, digital assets and fintech innovation, and the genomic revolution and biotech. The announcement named OpenAI, Anthropic, Stripe, and Databricks among the fund’s portfolio companies and noted that 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. “Making the ARK Venture Fund available onchain is a natural extension of our mission to democratize access to technologically enabled disruptive innovation.”

“Bringing ARKVX onchain demonstrates how leading asset managers can use tokenization to move established investment products onto modern capital markets infrastructure,” said Carlos Domingo, Co-Founder and CEO of Securitize.

Fund Structure, Holdings, and Performance

The fund’s Class D shares, ticker ARKVX, had an inception date of September 23, 2022, and net assets across all share classes stood at $1,304 million as of August 31, 2026, according to ARK’s fund page. ARK Investment Management LLC serves as adviser, Foreside Fund Services LLC as distributor, and American Beacon Partners provides sales services. The fund typically holds 25 to 50 positions, and its weighted average market capitalization was $352 billion against a median of $3 billion as of August 31, 2026.

Per the fund’s most recent prospectus, dated October 28, 2025, annual expenses include a 2.75% management fee and a 0.15% service fee, with total annual fund expenses of 3.49% and total net expenses of 2.90% after contractual fee waivers and expense reimbursements.

As of August 31, 2026, the fund’s top ten holdings were SpaceX (SPCX ) at 7.54%, Kalshi at 5.81%, Ayar Labs at 5.65%, OpenAI at 5.26%, Stripe at 4.16%, Anthropic at 3.86%, Lila Sciences at 3.71%, Crusoe at 3.66%, Tenstorrent at 3.36%, and Figure AI at 2.35%. Private companies accounted for 74.15% of portfolio market value and public companies 25.85% as of that date, with North America at 97.59% and Western Europe at 2.41% by region.

ARK’s fund page reports Class D net asset value (NAV) returns of 84.75% over one year, 36.14% annualized over three years, and 33.33% annualized since inception, each as of June 30, 2026, plus 26.71% year to date. Calendar-year NAV returns were 61.24% in 2023, 6.69% in 2024, and 55.68% in 2025. The fund’s NAV stood at $60.49 as of September 23, 2026.

Token Terms and Prior Partnership

According to the announcement, eligible investors accessing the fund through Securitize can gain exposure to its actively managed portfolio through blockchain-based infrastructure. On Securitize’s ARKVX page, the tokenized fund carries a $500 minimum investment, funded in USDC after identity and eligibility verification and wallet whitelisting. Each token is backed one-to-one by ARK Venture Fund shares held in custody at BNY Mellon, with the investor’s official position held in the investor’s own wallet or the platform vault. A 2% transaction fee applies at subscription, deducted before units are priced at NAV. Securitize states the token represents the same SEC-registered fund with the same rights and the same quarterly liquidity, describing tokenization as a change in the format of ownership rather than in what is owned.

Liquidity runs through the fund’s quarterly offers to repurchase up to 5% of outstanding shares at NAV, and repurchase requests may be prorated. The announcement’s disclosures state that the fund’s shares are not listed on a securities exchange, that no secondary market is expected to develop, and that periodic repurchase offers may be oversubscribed.

Securitize’s ARKVX page, citing ARK Invest as its source, lists fund net assets of $1.3 billion as of June 30, 2026, and states that ARKVX Class D returned 20.35% during the second quarter of 2026 compared with 15.20% for the S&P 500 Index, noting that the non-diversified interval fund differs materially from the index.

The launch follows ARK Invest’s strategic investment in Securitize, announced on October 7, 2025, which the September 24, 2026 announcement says laid the groundwork for the expanded collaboration. In the earlier release, the firms said the investment aimed to advance institutional adoption of tokenized securities, expand access to regulated investment products, improve capital markets infrastructure, and unlock new forms of programmable ownership. That release named BlackRock, Hamilton Lane (HLNE ), Jump Crypto, Morgan Stanley (MS ), ParaFi Capital, and Tradeweb Markets (TW ) as prior Securitize investors and described the platform as having more than $4 billion in tokenized securities at the time.

Securitize describes itself as the leading platform for tokenized assets, with approximately $5 billion in assets under management as of August 2026, and names Apollo, BlackRock, BNY, Hamilton Lane, KKR, and VanEck among the asset managers it works with. The company states it is the only company operating regulated digital-securities infrastructure in both the United States and the European Union. Its subsidiaries include Securitize Markets LLC, a registered broker-dealer and FINRA member that operates an SEC-registered alternative trading system, and Securitize Transfer Agent LLC, an SEC-registered transfer agent.

ARK Investment Management LLC is a federally registered investment adviser and privately held firm headquartered in St. Petersburg, Florida. Founded by Cathie Wood in 2014, the firm focuses solely on disruptive innovation across areas including artificial intelligence, robotics, energy storage, multiomic sequencing, and blockchain technology.