Overview
ARK Invest (NYSE Arca: ARKK) is a US investment management firm focused on disruptive Innovation. Founded by Cathie Wood in 2014. Major holdings in Tesla, robotics, AI, autonomous vehicles, and genomics. Influences market sentiment on robotics and AV companies.
Verified record
- Verified deployments
- None on file
- Active incidents
- None on file
Key facts
Data & sources
Web sources
1
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Partnerships
Every company ARK Invest has built with, alongside the ones only announced in a press release.
Most-frequent partners
- 1Bezos Expeditions1× joint2 total
- 2Figure AI1× joint15 total
- 3Intel Corporation1× joint10 total
- 4Microsoft1× joint351 total
- 5NVIDIA1× joint1112 total
- 6OpenAI Startup Fund1× joint1 total
Most recent
- Figure AI Series B (2024)2024-02-29with Figure AIoperating
Relationships
Current leadership (1)
- Cathie Wood Founder & CEO, ARK Investsecondary-verified
Founders (1)
Safety record
No incidents on record for ARK Invest.
Only active incidents are counted. Retracted incidents are excluded from this summary but remain reachable at their canonical URLs.
Full safety record: incidents, sourcing, and exposure data →
Recent coverage
ARK Invest in third-party press
Financial state
- Reporting basis
- private_reported
- Lifecycle stage
- mature
- Counterparty risk class
- low
Each numeric field carries its own basis marker. Aggregators report a number; this surface preserves the source class so verification depth travels with the value.
Partnerships
1 total · 1 operating
Every company ARK Invest has built with, alongside the ones only announced in a press release.
Most recent
- Figure AI Series B (2024)2024-02-29with Figure AIoperating
Most-frequent partners
- 1Bezos Expeditions1× joint2 total
- 2Figure AI1× joint15 total
- 3Intel Corporation1× joint10 total
- 4Microsoft1× joint351 total
- 5NVIDIA1× joint1112 total
- 6OpenAI Startup Fund1× joint1 total
Timeline
Every recorded move in ARK Invest’s history, most recent first: funding rounds, partnerships, acquisitions, supply-chain starts, key hires, and press.
PartnershipFigure AI Series B (2024)
2024-02-29Figure AI raised a $675 million Series B at a $2.6 billion valuation (announced Feb 29, 2024), with investors including NVIDIA, Intel Capital, Microsoft, the OpenAI Startup Fund, Bezos Expeditions, Parkway Venture Capital, and ARK Invest; announced alongside a collaboration with OpenAI.
Recent activity
Every change to this record is dated, sourced, and independently verified where marked.
- Record createdJun 25, 2026
Added to the verified registry
Sources (1)
Common questions
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Is ARK Invest a top robotics company?
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Methodology: Verified · 1 source (no primary) · last reviewed 2026-08-21
Verification posture
Verified
Low confidence
Review state
Stable
Last reviewed 2026-08-21
Sources by quality tier
- 1
- unclassified
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Methodology surface for ARK Invest.In the press
Recent coverage mentioning ARK Invest from third-party publications. Automatically surfaced; not part of the verified registry record.
Rocket Lab Bounces Off Its Lows—What's Behind the Move?
Rocket Lab shares have rebounded on ARK Invest's continued buying, shareholder approval of its Iridium acquisition, and SpaceX's planned pullback from rideshare launches, though…
ARK Adds Fund On The Blockchain. Fed Proposes Stablecoin Rules.
Cathie Wood's ARK Invest launches venture fund on the blockchain, offering trading for Kalshi, OpenAI. Federal Reserve proposes stablecoin rules. The post ARK Adds Fund On The…
Venture Capital & Startup Funding Roundup, September 24, 2026: ARK Invest, Evolution Equity, Mirae Asset Capital, Socratic Partners & More
Venture capital today is clustering around companies that control a hard bottleneck rather than simply adding another application layer. The largest checks in the latest 12-hour…
Rocket Lab Readies For Mission, Cathie Wood Buys $25 Million In Shares
Cathie Wood's ARK Invest firm on Tuesday bought $25 million shares of Rocket Lab stock. Analyst praises revenue opportunities. The post Rocket Lab Readies For Mission, Cathie Wood…
Cathie Wood Projects $10 Trillion In SpaceX Starship Revenue By 2030
ARK Invest CEO Cathie Wood said SpaceX by the end of the decade could generate trillions in Starship revenue. Elon Musk agrees. The post Cathie Wood Projects $10 Trillion In…
Cathie Wood Grows Robinhood Stake; Sheds More AMD, Palantir
Cathie Wood's firm ARK Invest added to its already sizable position in the trading platform Robinhood, which is back in a buy zone. The post Cathie Wood Grows Robinhood Stake;…
Venture Capital & Startup Funding Roundup, August 25, 2026: Aramco Ventures, ARK Invest, Salesforce Ventures, Samsung Ventures, Siemens & More
Venure capital’s signal today is not that risk appetite has returned evenly across the startup market. It is that investors are paying aggressively for bottlenecks created by the…
K2 Space Lands $500 Million Funding Round
K2 Space Corp., the Torrance-based space satellite company, raised $500 million in series D funding, catapulting the company’s valuation to $6.8 billion. Kleiner Perkins and…
K2 Space raises $500M to build big, powerful satellites
K2 Space, a California-based satellite company that recently set up an engineering hub in Seattle, has announced a $500 million funding round at a $6.8 billion valuation. The…
Cathie Wood Takes a Ride in Tesla’s Robotaxi in Austin — The Takeaway for Crypto - Coinfomania
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⚠️ MARKET BOTTOM? ARK Invest's Data Reveals Cathie Wood's Highest Conviction Stocks Savannah Bananas Atlanta (zoXYSkdaIs) - Fathom Journal
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Cathie Wood's ARK Invest unloaded $163 million in shares including Roku and AMD to finance its SpaceX IPO position - eciks.org
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Video
“You’d think we were in a recession.” Household employment fell roughly 500,000 and nonfarm payrolls came in at half of expectations, yet, ARK Invest CEO and CI
ARK's Director of Research, Autonomous Technology & Robotics / Director of Investment Analysis Tasha Keeney takes us through the Autonomous Vehicles section of
In this episode of The Brainstorm, Brett, Sam, and Nick discuss SpaceX’s Starfall, a new orbital delivery concept that could move cargo anywhere on Earth at ext
Why is the World Cup sending more volume to Kalshi than Polymarket? Nick Grous points to one thing: the US has a massive, underserved sports betting market and
"They will be put to shame if they don't save lives by enabling autonomous mobility everywhere." Cathie Wood is not holding back on regulator expectations.
Please enjoy this preview of In The Know With Cathie Wood, being released later tonight...
People make the difference. Meet Destiny Miranda, CPC, SHRM-CP sharing her background and how she brings ARK's mission to life as Director of Human Resources.
Heat Index
Serious52/100
A composite of competitive footprint, funding, press velocity, active partnerships, and supply-chain edges. Different from the Intelligence score below (which is per-form-factor productization). Non-robotics companies cap at 25.
Reality vs attention
Not enough verified signal yet to place ARK Invest against peers. Reality and attention percentiles publish once the underlying record clears its data floor.
6-month trend
Analysis
Meaningful press and media coverage across the period. Limited public funding data for capital position assessment.
Signal flags
Dimension breakdown
Verified signal
Attention (reach, not merit)
DEPLOY Intelligence scores are computed from verified registry data: confirmed deployments, disclosed funding rounds, regulatory filings, active job listings, video viewership, and press coverage. Confidence ratings reflect data availability. Scores update nightly.
DEPLOY Indices — verified vs claimed
Last computed: Oct 2, 2026