Arrington Capital

Michael Arrington sets the firm’s strategic direction and investment thesis, drawing on fifteen-plus years of operator and angel-investor experience. General Partner Heather Harde, TechCrunch’s former CEO, shares decision-making authority across the portfolio. The partnership structure keeps the investment committee lean, though individual deal leads may vary by sector and strategy.

Arrington Capital runs parallel equity and liquid-token vehicles under the same organizational roof, but the two strategies operate with distinct capital accounts, risk frameworks, and reporting lines. The equity fund targets traditional seed and Series A rounds in technology companies. The crypto fund invests in both early-stage token projects and actively managed liquid token positions, giving the firm exposure to protocol development from formation through secondary trading.

Michael Arrington’s personal capital is invested alongside that of external limited partners, a common alignment practice in venture, but the firm does not structure itself as a single-family office or multi-family office. It operates as a registered investment adviser, and its fund vehicles are open to qualified institutional and individual investors on terms consistent with standard venture fund practice.

The equity strategy concentrates on seed and Series A rounds, occasionally participating in later-stage insider rounds for existing portfolio companies. The crypto strategy is stage-agnostic, taking positions in early protocol treasury raises, network launches, and secondary liquid tokens depending on market conditions and valuation windows.

Michael Arrington’s network — built over a decade of running TechCrunch, attending thousands of startup pitches, and writing about the technology industry — remains the firm’s primary sourcing engine. The firm also benefits from the broader TechCrunch alumni diaspora and relationships with syndicate leads, accelerator programs, and protocol foundations across North America and Asia.

The firm has publicly indicated avoidance of consumer-packaged goods, traditional retail, and life sciences, concentrating its mandate on software, infrastructure, and protocol-layer technologies. Within crypto, it has steered clear of NFT-focused funds and pure metaverse plays, maintaining a preference for protocol-level infrastructure and financial-primitive investments.

The British Virgin Islands office serves the firm’s offshore fund structures, a common setup among crypto-native venture firms that need a jurisdiction compatible with international limited partners and token-investment frameworks. US-based operations remain the core of the firm’s deal-making and portfolio-management activities (per the firm’s official office disclosures).