How to Invest in Future Unicorn IPOs

Cathie Wood is best known for exchange-traded funds, especially her flagship ARK Innovation ETF (ARKK). But ARK also runs a less familiar product: the ARK Venture Fund (ARKVX), an interval fund that holds stakes in private companies such as SpaceX, OpenAI and Anthropic—firms expected to make a splash when they go public, perhaps as soon as this year. The fund has quietly become one of the few active strategies to outperform the Nasdaq 100, yet it still manages only about $500 million in assets and comes with caveats typical of interval funds (namely illiquidity). On this episode of Trillions , Eric Balchunas and Joel Weber speak with Wood, Brett Winton and Charles Roberts—the fund's three portfolio managers—about how they decide which private companies to invest in, how they value assets that don't trade publicly and whether some of these holdings could eventually find their way into ARK's ETFs. They also discuss the structural challenges of gaining private-market exposure through ETFs and how issuers and investors are navigating those limits.

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How to Invest in Future Unicorn IPOs is an episode from Trillions by Bloomberg.

This episode is 49:52 long.

This episode was published on Jan 29, 2026.

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