Catherine Wood
Founder, CEO, CIO @ ARK Investment Management
New York, United States
Catherine Wood is a post-ipo equity investor at ARK Investment Management in New York focused on Artificial Intelligence and Bitcoin. Catherine D. Wood is based out of St. Petersburg, Florida, and is the Founder, CEO, CIO, and Board Delegate at ARK Investment Management and Advisory Board Member at LayerZero Labs. Catherine previously served as the Chief Investment Officer at AllianceBernstein. Catherine D. Wood attended the University of Southern California.
- Total investments:
- 19
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 47%
Last updated:
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Industries Catherine Wood invests in
Stages Catherine Wood invests in
Countries Catherine Wood invests in
Round sizes
Round size
- Series A
- $14M–$57M
- Post-IPO Equity
- $2.8M–$365M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Artificial Intelligence 5 (26%)
- Bitcoin 3 (16%)
- FinTech 3 (16%)
- Software 3 (16%)
- Blockchain 3 (16%)
Stage
- Post-IPO Equity 7 (37%)
- Seed 2 (11%)
- Series A 2 (11%)
- Series B 2 (11%)
- Series D 2 (11%)
Country
- United States 11 (58%)
- Japan 1 (5%)
- Canada 1 (5%)
- Germany 1 (5%)
- Switzerland 1 (5%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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Wonder
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Wonder is a food technology company that operates a mealtime platform offering restaurant meals, prepared foods, meal kits, and food delivery through a unified ordering experience. It develops and manages food preparation, ordering, and delivery using proprietary technology, including its Infinite Kitchen food robotics platform. The companypartners with chefs and restaurant brands to provide a variety of meal options that customers can order through its platform. It also manages the preparation and fulfillment process to support delivery and pickup services across its locations. Additionally, Wonder expands its food ecosystem through the operation and integration of restaurant concepts, meal kit services, and delivery capabilities. | $650M / Series D / Jul 16, 2026 | |
Lucra Sports
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Lucra Sports operates as a social-first sports gaming platform that sits uniquely at the intersection of sports gaming and fantasy sports. | $20M / Series B / Apr 22, 2026 | |
Quantum Solution
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Quantum Solutions is an electric vehicle company. They deliver business solutions that meet customer satisfaction in planning, designing, developing, operating, and maintaining. It offers a four-seat EV with detachable batteries. | $180M / Post-IPO Equity / Oct 24, 2025 | |
Bitmine Immersion Technologies
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Bitmine Immersion Technologies operates in the digital asset and blockchain technology sector by providing infrastructure and services for cryptocurrency mining and related activities. The company uses immersion cooling methods to host and operate mining hardware for Bitcoin and supports third-party equipment hosting, infrastructure management andequipment sales. Bitmine also engages in self-mining of digital assets and offers advisory services tied to digital asset treasury strategies and has expanded its focus to include broader crypto ecosystem services. Its data center offerings encompass power, rack space, environmental management systems, connectivity and monitoring software for mining operations. The company’s business integrates infrastructure support with asset accumulation and consulting for clients navigating cryptocurrency networks and mining markets. | $365.2M / Post-IPO Equity / Sep 22, 2025 | |
Hammerspace
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Hammerspace breaks data free from the constraints of storage systems, making it possible for users and applications to access data from anywhere by providing the software-defined data platform and data services for your Global Data Environment. 1. Unified Data Access Layer (UDAL) • Global File System • Linux, Windows, Kubernetes, VMWare, MacOS 2.Data Orchestration Tools • Objective-based policies • File-driven data mobility and replication • Universal data movers • Customizable metadata • Supports over 100 individual volumes / buckets 3. Automated Data Services • Replication • Snapshots with file-level recovery • WORM • Tiering and mobility • Undelete • Versioning • Encryption 4. Universal Storage Options • Multi-Cloud, Multi-Region, Hybrid-Cloud • Multi-Data Center • Software Defined Storage (utilize existing storage or choice of commodity) • Block / NAS / Object / Snowflake | $100M / Series B / Apr 15, 2025 | |
Coinbase
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Coinbase is an online platform for digital currency transactions, enabling merchants, consumers, and traders to buy, sell, and store cryptocurrencies. The company provides Bitcoin wallet services, allowing users to manage digital assets and conduct transactions. Coinbase offers merchant payment processing tools, supporting businesses in integratingcryptocurrency payments. It facilitates secure digital currency exchanges, assisting users in navigating blockchain-based financial transactions. | $8M / Post-IPO Equity / Mar 04, 2025 | |
Shield AI
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Shield AI is an enterprise-focused company specializing in AI-powered mission autonomy, developing and deploying advanced autonomous systems for defense and security. The company builds AI pilots that operate aircraft and drones, enabling autonomous flight in environments where communication and GPS may be unavailable. Its platform supports missionplanning, navigation, and real-time decision-making for aerial systems used in reconnaissance and operational tasks. Shield AI also integrates hardware and software components to deploy autonomous capabilities across different types of unmanned systems. The company works with government and defense organizations to support missions that require autonomous operation and data-driven coordination. | $300M / Series F / Oct 31, 2023 | |
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Hammerspace
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Hammerspace breaks data free from the constraints of storage systems, making it possible for users and applications to access data from anywhere by providing the software-defined data platform and data services for your Global Data Environment. 1. Unified Data Access Layer (UDAL) • Global File System • Linux, Windows, Kubernetes, VMWare, MacOS 2.Data Orchestration Tools • Objective-based policies • File-driven data mobility and replication • Universal data movers • Customizable metadata • Supports over 100 individual volumes / buckets 3. Automated Data Services • Replication • Snapshots with file-level recovery • WORM • Tiering and mobility • Undelete • Versioning • Encryption 4. Universal Storage Options • Multi-Cloud, Multi-Region, Hybrid-Cloud • Multi-Data Center • Software Defined Storage (utilize existing storage or choice of commodity) • Block / NAS / Object / Snowflake | $56.7M / Series A / Jul 18, 2023 | |
CrowdStrike
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CrowdStrike is a global cybersecurity leader, and has redefined modern security with one of the world’s advanced cloud-native platforms for protecting critical areas of enterprise risk – endpoints and cloud workloads, identity, and data. Powered by the CrowdStrike Security Cloud and world-class AI, the CrowdStrike Falcon® platform leveragesreal-time indicators of attack, threat intelligence, evolving adversary tradecraft, and enriched telemetry from across the enterprise to deliver hyper-accurate detections, automated protection and remediation, elite threat hunting, and prioritized observability of vulnerabilities. Purpose-built in the cloud with a single lightweight-agent architecture, the Falcon platform delivers rapid and scalable deployment, superior protection and performance, reduced complexity, and immediate time-to-value. | $4.6M / Post-IPO Equity / Dec 01, 2022 | |
Grayscale Bitcoin Trust
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Grayscale Bitcoin Trust is a digital currency investment company providing a familiar structure for financial and tax advisors. The company enables investors to gain exposure to BTC through a traditional investment, without the challenges of buying, storing, and safekeeping BTC. | $2.8M / Post-IPO Equity / Nov 15, 2022 | |
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Co-Investors
About ARK Investment Management
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.
ARK Investment Management Contacts
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Catherine Wood
Founder, CEO, CIO
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Bill Cox
Principal Financial Officer, Investment Products
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Matt Devost
Theme Developer
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Sebastian Benkert
Chief Marketing Officer
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Will Summerlin
Analyst
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FAQ
What does Catherine Wood invest in?
Catherine Wood invests primarily in Artificial Intelligence, Bitcoin and FinTech startups, most often at Post-IPO Equity and Seed stage. Most of the 19 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is Catherine Wood's check size?
Catherine Wood typically joins rounds of $14M–$57M at Series A and $2.8M–$365M at Post-IPO Equity. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Catherine Wood participates in.
When did Catherine Wood last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Catherine Wood closed in Jul 2026. Shizune tracks 19 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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