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Cathie Wood Takes Ark Invest's $1.3B Venture Fund Onchain
Ark Invest is putting its roughly $1.3 billion ARK Venture Fund on Ethereum through Securitize, giving eligible investors a blockchain-based representation of a portfolio that includes OpenAI, Anthropic, Stripe and Databricks, and the fund launched in 2022.
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What happened
Ark Invest is putting its roughly $1.3 billion ARK Venture Fund on Ethereum through Securitize, giving eligible investors a blockchain-based representation of a portfolio that includes OpenAI, Anthropic, Stripe and Databricks, and the fund launched in 2022.
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Global impact / market context
This gives eligible investors a blockchain-based way to hold a share of a private company portfolio that includes OpenAI, Anthropic, Stripe and Databricks, companies normally hard for everyday investors to reach, and it links a traditional venture fund to Ethereum.
Analyst inference
The fund's net asset value, which means the per-share value of its holdings, has roughly tripled from near twenty dollars at its 2022 launch to about sixty dollars and fifty cents on Sept. 23, 2026, showing strong demand for private technology exposure.
Analyst inference
What to watch
- Ark Invest is placing the roughly $1.3 billion ARK Venture Fund on Ethereum through Securitize, a firm that issues blockchain-based representations of fund interests for eligible investors. Confirmed
- Watch whether Ark and Securitize expand blockchain-based access to other funds or open this venture fund representation to a wider group of eligible investors beyond those currently allowed. Proposed
- Track whether the fund's stated net asset value per share, about sixty dollars and fifty cents on Sept. 23, 2026, changes as its private holdings such as OpenAI, Anthropic, Stripe and Databricks are revalued. Analyst inference
Affected assets
- ETH — Ethereum
- ARK — ARK
- SECZ — Securitize