Arrington Capital Management

Arrington Capital Management

Arrington Capital Management is an investment firm with a footprint in New York, San Mateo, and Miami. The firm is best known for managing Arrington XRP Capital, a crypto-focused venture and hedge fund vehicle. Led by founder Michael Arrington, the entity operates at the intersection of venture capital and liquid digital asset markets. Strategy spans early-stage venture, liquid token investing, and public equities, concentrated overwhelmingly in the digital assets and blockchain infrastructure space. The firm's venture arm has backed protocols, exchanges, and developer-tooling companies across the crypto stack. Known portfolio companies include Anchorage Digital, a federally chartered digital asset bank, and Bitmain, the dominant ASIC mining hardware manufacturer. Geographic deal flow is global, with concentration in North American and Asian crypto ecosystems. Scale and headcount are not publicly disclosed. The firm maintains operational presences in Silicon Valley and South Florida in addition to its New York base. Arrington Capital's most visible vehicle, Arrington XRP Capital, launched in 2017 with $100 million in assets denominated in XRP (per public filing, 2017). The firm does not disclose adjacent philanthropic or operating-company structures. The firm's structural differentiator is its dual mandate as both a liquid token fund and an early-stage venture investor under a single manager, enabling portfolio companies to receive capital from a vehicle that can also provide liquidity and market-making insights — a blurring of venture and hedge fund disciplines that few other groups operate at comparable scale in digital assets.