Disruptive Innovation and the ARK Venture Fund, Featuring Cathie Wood (ARK Invest)

The Exchange by EW&L Private Wealth

The Exchange by EW&L Private Wealth
Disruptive Innovation and the ARK Venture Fund, Featuring Cathie Wood (ARK Invest)
Sep 28, 2026 Episode 117 Craig Emanuel, Tim Whybourne, Ryan Loehr.

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This episode is a recording of an in-person webinar presentation held on Tuesday 15th September, featuring Cathie Wood, Founder, CEO and CIO of ARK Invest.

Cathie discusses ARK's technology-platform approach to research, covering artificial intelligence, robotics, energy storage, blockchain, and multi-omic sequencing, and the convergence between these platforms. She sets out ARK's macroeconomic view, including an expectation of accelerating global real GDP growth and declining inflation as technology costs fall, and outlines the structure and positioning of the newly launched ARK Venture Fund (Australian Feeder), including its private-to-public allocation target and quarterly liquidity mechanism. The conversation also covers embodied AI in autonomous transportation, AI's application in drug discovery and early disease diagnosis, and ARK's long-held position in Bitcoin and digital assets.

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