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ARK Invest

3 East 28th Street, 7th Floor, New York, NY, 10016, United States

Overview

ARK Invest holds a precision lens on thematic investing. They focus on disruptive innovation and identify themes that will enhance productivity and create wealth. ARK seeks to research and invest in technologically enabled innovation that cuts across economic sectors and changes the way world works. The current themes include Industrial Innovation, Next Generation Internet, FinTech, and the Genomic Revolution.

Total investments
39
Lead investments
7
Investments · 12mo
21
Active investors
6

Sector focus

  • Education
  • Finance
  • Financial Services
  • FinTech
  • Impact Investing
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Investment portfolio

  • K2 Space

    Participated · Series D · Jul 2026

    K2 Space designs and manufactures large, high-power satellites with a heavily vertically integrated supply chain that produces more than 85% of its platform in-house. The company operates a 180,000 sq ft factory in Torrance, California, configured to manufacture up to 100 satellites per year. K2 has won major commercial and national security contracts, including an initial tranche of 30 satellites for SES’s meoSphere network, work with Anduril on the Golden Dome program, and selection as the bus provider for the Space Force’s Protected Tactical Satcom-Global program. Financially, K2 has cumulatively raised over $1 billion in capital and secured over $1 billion in signed contracts. Near-term product and operational plans include launching the Trinity mission in Q2 2027 and introducing a 100 kW Giga-class satellite in the second half of 2028 to enable larger on-orbit compute and payload capacity.

  • Wonder

    Participated · Series D · Jul 2026

    Wonder builds a vertically integrated food technology platform combining chef-developed concepts, third-party restaurant marketplace listings and at-home meal kits in a single customer experience. Its proprietary kitchen technology includes the Infinite Kitchen and the only fully automated bowl-making system in live commercial production, and the platform supports multi-restaurant ordering within a single order. The company has expanded rapidly, reporting its footprint tripled from 46 to 140 locations since May 2025. Wonder is investing in robotics, artificial intelligence and delivery infrastructure, including a partnership with Zipline to pilot on-demand drone delivery in Texas. Marc Lore is founder and CEO, and the company positions itself to own mealtime from recipe development through autonomous delivery. Financially, the company raised $650 million in a Series D at a $9 billion pre-money valuation to fund its expansion and technology investments.

  • Hydra Host

    Participated · Series A · Jun 2026

    Founded in 2021, Hydra Host began by serving cryptocurrency miners and has pivoted to offer automation software for data center operators and an AI server brokerage platform. The company enables operators to rent out idle NVIDIA AI server computing power and runs a GPU matching marketplace connecting GPU owners with renters. As of the latest reports, Hydra Host has deployed its technology in 50 data centers worldwide, up from 30 earlier in the year. The company completed a $100 million project funding round led by Kindred Ventures that values it at close to $800 million post-money, with participation from Nvidia, ARK Invest, Magnetar Capital, Founders Fund, and Flume Ventures. The articles do not report revenue, user, or other operating metrics beyond data center deployments.

  • Neuralink

    Participated · Series E · May 2026

    Neuralink develops implantable brain-computer interface devices that decode neural signals to enable control of phones, computers and other systems. The company is conducting first human trials across three countries and reports that five patients with severe paralysis are using its device to control digital and physical systems by thought alone. Regulators have granted its speech restoration system a Breakthrough Device designation from the FDA, and the company previously received a similar designation for a vision-restoring implant. Financially, Neuralink announced a $650 million capital raise with participation from multiple top-tier investors, and reports earlier financing of $600 million at a reported $9 billion valuation. The company says the funds will be used to expand clinical testing and bring its technology to more people with unmet medical needs.

  • Hark

    Participated · Series A · May 2026

    Hark is an ambitious AI startup developing what it calls the world's most advanced personal intelligence platform. The company is building a suite of custom native hardware devices paired with end-to-end speech, text, and vision models and deeply personalized memory systems. The goal is to create an AI that thinks like you — and sometimes ahead of you — to offload mental workload and handle tasks autonomously. Unlike general-purpose AI tools, Hark's systems are multimodal, built from scratch, and designed to interact with the world the way humans do: listening, speaking, seeing, remembering, and taking action. Currently in beta, Hark envisions bringing this kind of super-intelligence to everyone, freeing people to focus on meaningful work, creativity, and the people they care about.

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