Arrington Capital: Funding, Team & Investors

Arrington Capital operates as a thesis-driven firm, deploying capital into the digital assets and Web3 ecosystem. Functioning as both a venture capital and a multi-strategy liquid hedge fund, it focuses investments on early-stage companies. The firm's approach emphasizes foundational technologies and protocols critical to the decentralized internet.

J. Michael Arrington founded the firm in 2017, recognizing the transformative potential of blockchain and decentralized applications. Arrington, known for establishing TechCrunch and CrunchFund, leveraged his deep experience in identifying nascent tech trends to launch this specialized investment vehicle.

Arrington Capital supports companies developing the future of Web3, from infrastructure to application layer innovators. Its long-term vision involves cultivating the growth of the decentralized economy by backing ventures that reshape traditional industries through digital ownership and open, permissionless systems, anticipating widespread adoption.

Date	Company	Round	Lead Investor(s)	Co-Investor(s)
Dec 4, 2025	Portal	$25.0M Other Equity	JTSA Global	Coinbase Ventures, OKX Ventures
Oct 1, 2025	Limitless Labs	$10.0M Seed	1confirmation	10100, Abstract Ventures, Kevin Hartz, Brainchild, Divergence Ventures, Founders Fund, General Catalyst, NEW Form Capital, Polychain Capital, Robot Ventures, Sound Ventures, The HIT Forge, Thrive Capital, Balaji Srinivasan, Diego Berdakin, Dylan Field, Mark Pincus, Sahin Boydas, Stani Kulechov, Vitalik Buterin, Coinbase Ventures, Collider, Digital Currency Group, Flyer ONE Ventures, F Prime Capital, Node Capital, SID Venture Partners
Jul 2, 2024	Redstone	$15.0M Series A	Arrington Capital	—
May 16, 2024	Intensity Labs	$6.9M Seed	Dao5, Polychain Capital	Jordan Fish, Meltem Demirors, Shoku, Ansem, Build A Bera, Arthur Hayes, SER Shokunin
May 10, 2024	Glacis	$2.0M Seed	—	Paper Ventures
May 1, 2024	Glacis Labs	$2.0M Seed	Arrington Capital, Paper Ventures	7percent Ventures, CrunchFund, Mechanism Capital, ParaFi Capital, Collion Myers, Luke Youngblood, Steve Kokinos, Bitscale Capital, Edessa Capital, Protagonist
Apr 17, 2024	Aark	$6.0M Seed	—	Cypher Capital, Stanely WU, Infinity Ventures Crypto, Metavest, Danilo S. Carlucci
Apr 11, 2024	Mayan	$3.0M Seed	Mike Dudas, Alpen Sheth	Anatoly Yakovenko, Saeed Badreg, BIG Brain Holdings, Hash3, Solana Ventures, Wormhole Labs
Apr 1, 2024	Berachain	$100.0M Series B	Brevan Howard Digital, Framework Ventures	Animoca Brands, Draper Associates, Magic Fund, Polygon Labs, Unruly Capital, Balaji Srinivasan, Roneil Rumburg, Antony Lewis, BO Feng, Amber Group, Cypher Capital, Hack VC, Sandeep Nailwal, YAT SIU, HashKey Capital, Hypersphere Ventures, Laser Digital, Nomad Capital, Polychain Capital, Rubik Ventures, Samsung Next, Tribe Capital
Apr 1, 2024	burnt	$25.0M Series A	—	Animoca Brands, Draper Dragon, Goldentree Asset Management, Multicoin Capital, Nomura, Sfermion
Apr 1, 2024	Centrifuge	$15.0M Series A	Felix Machart, BEN Forman	Galaxy Digital, Sinhae LEE, LAUNCHub Ventures, Robot Ventures, Symbolic Capital, Stefan George, Bloccelerate, Borderless Capital, Centrifuge, Circle Ventures, Edessa Capital, Gnosis, IOSG Ventures, Modular Capital, Protocap, RE7 Capital, Scytale Digital, Skynet Trading, Spartan Group, Stake Capital, TRGC, Wintermute Ventures
Feb 27, 2024	QED Protocol	$3.0M Other Equity	Arrington Capital	—
Feb 1, 2024	QED Protocol	$3.0M Seed	Arrington Capital	CrunchFund, DecentraNet, Fmfw.io, Galaxy Digital, Monday Capital, Republic Capital, Scout Ventures, Symbolic Capital, Wave Financial, Adam Back, Brad Yasar, Craig Sellars, George Burke, Draper Dragon, StarkWare Industries
Jan 1, 2024	Delegate	$9.0M Seed	—	CrunchFund, Dragonfly Capital, Portag3 Ventures, Rarestone Capital, DO Kwon, Arca, Bloccelerate, Coinbase Ventures, Collab+Currency, Electric Capital, Mask Network, Metastreet, Polygon Labs, PTC Crypto, Variant
Dec 19, 2023	Fyde Treasury	$3.2M Seed	OP Crypto	BIG Brain Holdings, Tommy Quite
Nov 1, 2023	Superstate	$14.0M Series A	CoinFund, Distributed Global	Outrun Ventures, Torch Capital, Breyer Capital, CMT Digital, Department OF XYZ, Folius Ventures, Galaxy Digital, Hack VC, Modular Capital, Nascent, Road Capital
Jul 1, 2023	Giza	$3.0M Seed	CoinFund	Lasse Clausen, Kima Ventures, TOP Harvest Capital, Anya Ruvinskaya, Johannes DE Waal, Rahul Sethuram, Julien Bouteloup, Rand Hindi, StarkWare Industries, TA Ventures
Apr 1, 2023	FARE Protocol	$6.0M Seed	Goat Capital, C Squared Ventures	Andreessen Horowitz, Gamegroove Capital, Geek Ventures, Preston Werner Ventures, Presto Ventures, Spring Capital, Sunset Ventures, Artur Sychov, Brian Corrigan, Gautam Shah, Hubert Thieblot, Kaarel Kotkas, Kevin Hart, Peter Vesterbacka, Riccardo Zacconi, Sebastian Knutsson, Sebastien Borget, 6TH MAN Ventures, Dweb3, Eniac Ventures, Morningstar Ventures, Quantstamp, Spark Digital Capital
Mar 1, 2023	ether.fi	$5.3M Other Equity	Jack Lipstone, Node Capital, Travis Scher	Arthur Hayes, Maelstrom, Purpose Investments, Version ONE Ventures
Mar 1, 2023	MetaLink	$6.0M Seed	—	AccelR8, Aglae Ventures, Angel Investor, Animal Capital, Casa Verde Capital, Double Prime LLP, Matr Ventures, Pantera Capital, Pareto Holdings, Pfizer Venture Investments, Remus Capital, Seven Seven SIX, Sound Ventures, Thirty Five Ventures, Vayner RSE, AJ Vaynerchuk, Alexandre Prot, Alexis Bonillo, Benjamin Chemla, Didier Valet, Griffin Johnson, Jimmy Donaldson, Kevin Hart, Mark Cuban, Nicolas Julia, Pascal Gauthier, Rich Miner, Shayne Coplan, Steve Aoki, Balaji S., Gary Vaynerchuk, GUY Oseary, Ivan Soto Wright, Justin Blau, Sebastien Borget, Ballervc, Dapper Labs, Gemini, Human Ventures, Social Capital
Oct 1, 2022	Mellow	$1.0M Seed	Arrington Capital, ParaFi Capital, Robot Ventures	468 Capital, Darren LAU, Daryl LAU, Igor Barinov, Ivangbi, Jamis Johnson, Mariano .eth, Molly Mielke, Santiago R., Focus Labs, Nemo Ventures, P2P Capital, Primitive Ventures, Principle Ventures
Aug 1, 2022	DAM	$2.0M Seed	—	Fmfw.io, Jsquare, Polygon Labs, 11 11 Ventures, D1 Ventures, Digital Finance Group, Ledgerprime, Stacker Ventures
Jun 1, 2022	Astaria	$8.0M Seed	—	A Capital, Polygon Labs, Jehan CHU, Mariano Conti, Stani Kulechov, Alex Svanevik, Andrew Thurman, Anthony Sassano, AVI Meyers, Corbin Page, Dean Eigenmann, Galen LAW KUN, Ivangbi, James Prestwich, Kartik Talwar, Meltem Demirors, Nick Emmons, Philipp Zentner, SAM Kazemian, TIM Beiko, Ethereal Ventures, Flow Traders, Genblock Capital, Genesis, Hypersphere Ventures, Ledgerprime, Mgnr, P2P, Proof Group, Republic Capital, Texture, The LAO, True Ventures, Wintermute
Apr 12, 2022	RociFi	$2.7M Seed	—	Goldentree Asset Management, LD Capital, Nexo, Skynet Trading
Mar 7, 2022	Immutable Systems	$200.0M Series C	Temasek	John Henderson, Alameda Research, YAT SIU, Declaration Partners, Fabric Ventures, James Ferguson, King River Capital, Liberty Global Ventures, Mirae Asset, ParaFi Capital, Possible Ventures, Princeville Capital, Prosus Ventures, Tencent Holdings

Date	Company	Round	Lead Investor(s)	Co-Investor(s)
Dec 4, 2025	Portal	$25.0M Other Equity	JTSA Global	Coinbase Ventures, OKX Ventures
Oct 1, 2025	Limitless Labs	$10.0M Seed	1confirmation	10100, Abstract Ventures, Kevin Hartz, Brainchild, Divergence Ventures, Founders Fund, General Catalyst, NEW Form Capital, Polychain Capital, Robot Ventures, Sound Ventures, The HIT Forge, Thrive Capital, Balaji Srinivasan, Diego Berdakin, Dylan Field, Mark Pincus, Sahin Boydas, Stani Kulechov, Vitalik Buterin, Coinbase Ventures, Collider, Digital Currency Group, Flyer ONE Ventures, F Prime Capital, Node Capital, SID Venture Partners
Jul 2, 2024	Redstone	$15.0M Series A	Arrington Capital	—
May 16, 2024	Intensity Labs	$6.9M Seed	Dao5, Polychain Capital	Jordan Fish, Meltem Demirors, Shoku, Ansem, Build A Bera, Arthur Hayes, SER Shokunin
May 10, 2024	Glacis	$2.0M Seed	—	Paper Ventures
May 1, 2024	Glacis Labs	$2.0M Seed	Arrington Capital, Paper Ventures	7percent Ventures, CrunchFund, Mechanism Capital, ParaFi Capital, Collion Myers, Luke Youngblood, Steve Kokinos, Bitscale Capital, Edessa Capital, Protagonist
Apr 17, 2024	Aark	$6.0M Seed	—	Cypher Capital, Stanely WU, Infinity Ventures Crypto, Metavest, Danilo S. Carlucci
Apr 11, 2024	Mayan	$3.0M Seed	Mike Dudas, Alpen Sheth	Anatoly Yakovenko, Saeed Badreg, BIG Brain Holdings, Hash3, Solana Ventures, Wormhole Labs
Apr 1, 2024	Berachain	$100.0M Series B	Brevan Howard Digital, Framework Ventures	Animoca Brands, Draper Associates, Magic Fund, Polygon Labs, Unruly Capital, Balaji Srinivasan, Roneil Rumburg, Antony Lewis, BO Feng, Amber Group, Cypher Capital, Hack VC, Sandeep Nailwal, YAT SIU, HashKey Capital, Hypersphere Ventures, Laser Digital, Nomad Capital, Polychain Capital, Rubik Ventures, Samsung Next, Tribe Capital
Apr 1, 2024	burnt	$25.0M Series A	—	Animoca Brands, Draper Dragon, Goldentree Asset Management, Multicoin Capital, Nomura, Sfermion
Apr 1, 2024	Centrifuge	$15.0M Series A	Felix Machart, BEN Forman	Galaxy Digital, Sinhae LEE, LAUNCHub Ventures, Robot Ventures, Symbolic Capital, Stefan George, Bloccelerate, Borderless Capital, Centrifuge, Circle Ventures, Edessa Capital, Gnosis, IOSG Ventures, Modular Capital, Protocap, RE7 Capital, Scytale Digital, Skynet Trading, Spartan Group, Stake Capital, TRGC, Wintermute Ventures
Feb 27, 2024	QED Protocol	$3.0M Other Equity	Arrington Capital	—
Feb 1, 2024	QED Protocol	$3.0M Seed	Arrington Capital	CrunchFund, DecentraNet, Fmfw.io, Galaxy Digital, Monday Capital, Republic Capital, Scout Ventures, Symbolic Capital, Wave Financial, Adam Back, Brad Yasar, Craig Sellars, George Burke, Draper Dragon, StarkWare Industries
Jan 1, 2024	Delegate	$9.0M Seed	—	CrunchFund, Dragonfly Capital, Portag3 Ventures, Rarestone Capital, DO Kwon, Arca, Bloccelerate, Coinbase Ventures, Collab+Currency, Electric Capital, Mask Network, Metastreet, Polygon Labs, PTC Crypto, Variant
Dec 19, 2023	Fyde Treasury	$3.2M Seed	OP Crypto	BIG Brain Holdings, Tommy Quite
Nov 1, 2023	Superstate	$14.0M Series A	CoinFund, Distributed Global	Outrun Ventures, Torch Capital, Breyer Capital, CMT Digital, Department OF XYZ, Folius Ventures, Galaxy Digital, Hack VC, Modular Capital, Nascent, Road Capital
Jul 1, 2023	Giza	$3.0M Seed	CoinFund	Lasse Clausen, Kima Ventures, TOP Harvest Capital, Anya Ruvinskaya, Johannes DE Waal, Rahul Sethuram, Julien Bouteloup, Rand Hindi, StarkWare Industries, TA Ventures
Apr 1, 2023	FARE Protocol	$6.0M Seed	Goat Capital, C Squared Ventures	Andreessen Horowitz, Gamegroove Capital, Geek Ventures, Preston Werner Ventures, Presto Ventures, Spring Capital, Sunset Ventures, Artur Sychov, Brian Corrigan, Gautam Shah, Hubert Thieblot, Kaarel Kotkas, Kevin Hart, Peter Vesterbacka, Riccardo Zacconi, Sebastian Knutsson, Sebastien Borget, 6TH MAN Ventures, Dweb3, Eniac Ventures, Morningstar Ventures, Quantstamp, Spark Digital Capital
Mar 1, 2023	ether.fi	$5.3M Other Equity	Jack Lipstone, Node Capital, Travis Scher	Arthur Hayes, Maelstrom, Purpose Investments, Version ONE Ventures
Mar 1, 2023	MetaLink	$6.0M Seed	—	AccelR8, Aglae Ventures, Angel Investor, Animal Capital, Casa Verde Capital, Double Prime LLP, Matr Ventures, Pantera Capital, Pareto Holdings, Pfizer Venture Investments, Remus Capital, Seven Seven SIX, Sound Ventures, Thirty Five Ventures, Vayner RSE, AJ Vaynerchuk, Alexandre Prot, Alexis Bonillo, Benjamin Chemla, Didier Valet, Griffin Johnson, Jimmy Donaldson, Kevin Hart, Mark Cuban, Nicolas Julia, Pascal Gauthier, Rich Miner, Shayne Coplan, Steve Aoki, Balaji S., Gary Vaynerchuk, GUY Oseary, Ivan Soto Wright, Justin Blau, Sebastien Borget, Ballervc, Dapper Labs, Gemini, Human Ventures, Social Capital
Oct 1, 2022	Mellow	$1.0M Seed	Arrington Capital, ParaFi Capital, Robot Ventures	468 Capital, Darren LAU, Daryl LAU, Igor Barinov, Ivangbi, Jamis Johnson, Mariano .eth, Molly Mielke, Santiago R., Focus Labs, Nemo Ventures, P2P Capital, Primitive Ventures, Principle Ventures
Aug 1, 2022	DAM	$2.0M Seed	—	Fmfw.io, Jsquare, Polygon Labs, 11 11 Ventures, D1 Ventures, Digital Finance Group, Ledgerprime, Stacker Ventures
Jun 1, 2022	Astaria	$8.0M Seed	—	A Capital, Polygon Labs, Jehan CHU, Mariano Conti, Stani Kulechov, Alex Svanevik, Andrew Thurman, Anthony Sassano, AVI Meyers, Corbin Page, Dean Eigenmann, Galen LAW KUN, Ivangbi, James Prestwich, Kartik Talwar, Meltem Demirors, Nick Emmons, Philipp Zentner, SAM Kazemian, TIM Beiko, Ethereal Ventures, Flow Traders, Genblock Capital, Genesis, Hypersphere Ventures, Ledgerprime, Mgnr, P2P, Proof Group, Republic Capital, Texture, The LAO, True Ventures, Wintermute
Apr 12, 2022	RociFi	$2.7M Seed	—	Goldentree Asset Management, LD Capital, Nexo, Skynet Trading
Mar 7, 2022	Immutable Systems	$200.0M Series C	Temasek	John Henderson, Alameda Research, YAT SIU, Declaration Partners, Fabric Ventures, James Ferguson, King River Capital, Liberty Global Ventures, Mirae Asset, ParaFi Capital, Possible Ventures, Princeville Capital, Prosus Ventures, Tencent Holdings

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