ARK Brings $1.3B Venture Fund Onchain Through Securitize

ARK Invest is tokenizing its ARK Venture Fund through Securitize. The fund has roughly $1.3 billion in assets and invests across private and public technology companies including OpenAI, Anthropic, Stripe and Databricks. The move tokenizes ownership and administration of the existing fund rather than creating a new crypto fund. **ID:** N25-02 **Site:** NewsBTC **Status:** READY **Author:** NewsBTC Editorial Team **Focus Keyword:** Tokenization **Image Keyword:** Tokenization **Category:** Technology **Tags:** ARK Invest, Securitize, Tokenization, ARKVX, Venture Capital **Primary Source:** https://securitize.io/learn/press-releases A Venture Fund Becomes A Tokenized Security ARKVX is an actively managed closed-end interval fund focused on disruptive innovation. Its portfolio includes exposure to companies such as OpenAI, Anthropic, Stripe and Databricks alongside public-market investments. Securitize will provide the tokenization infrastructure. That means fund interests can be represented and administered onchain while the underlying investment strategy remains the same. This is not ARK launching a cryptocurrency or turning the underlying private companies themselves into freely tr...