# Taryn Naidu

> Taryn Naidu is a seed investor at Arrington XRP Capital (Kirkland) backing Big Data and Hardware. See 1 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Arrington XRP Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/arrington-capital)
- Location: Kirkland, United States
- Total investments: 1
- Last investment: Apr 2014
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tarynnaidu
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/tjnaidu

Taryn Naidu is a seed investor at Arrington XRP Capital in Kirkland focused on Big Data and Hardware. Taryn Naidu is the Partner and Chief Operating Officer of Arrington Capital. He previously worked at Rigetti Computing as a Chief Operating Officer. Taryn Naidu attended the University of Regina.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Big Data | 1 | 100% |
| Hardware | 1 | 100% |
| Software | 1 | 100% |
| Quantum Computing | 1 | 100% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 1 | 100% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Rigetti Computing | Rigetti Computing is a full-stack quantum computing company. It designs and manufactures quantum integrated circuits. It packages and deploys those chips in a low-temperature environment, and they build control systems to perform quantum logic operations on them. The company develops software to integrate its systems directly into existing cloudinfrastructure. It has also developed new algorithms for quantum computing, with a focus on near-term applications in computational chemistry and machine learning. Our product, Forest, is the world’s first full-stack programming and execution environment for quantum/classical computing. It was founded in 2013 and is based in Berkeley, California. | $2.5M | Seed | Apr 15, 2014 |  |

1 of 1 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Berggruen Holdings](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/berggruen-holdings) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Susa Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/susa-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Arrington XRP Capital

VC Fund · Miami, United States

Arrington XRP Capital is a digital asset management firm in blockchain-based capital markets. The company was founded in 2017.

4 contacts available at Arrington XRP Capital.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Geoffrey Arone | Co-Founder & Limited Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/geoffrey-arone |
| Michael Arrington | Founder & Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/michael-arrington |
| Michael Sablone | Senior Developer / Tech Lead | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/michael-sablone |
| Taryn Naidu | Partner and Chief Operating Officer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/taryn-naidu |

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## FAQ

### What does Taryn Naidu invest in?

Taryn Naidu invests primarily in Big Data, Hardware and Software startups, most often at Seed stage. Most of the 1 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Taryn Naidu last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Taryn Naidu closed in Apr 2014. Shizune tracks 1 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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