"Considered"? "Now"? He launched a VC fund in 2011. Are there other criteria to be met for being considered a VC?

I'm sure there is a boy scout badge you get to make it official.

On the other hand, I don't think it changes the meaning of the article the least bit if we exchange Arrington with any of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_venture_capital_firms.

He's a huge pioneer in the field of conflicts of journalistic interest. :)

It is times like this that I wish I could exchange HN karma for more upvote power.

According to Wikipedia's article: "In 2011, Arrington founded a venture capital firm called CrunchFund along with M.G. Siegler and Patrick Gallaghar."

It seems to me that being a partner at a venture capital firm makes someone a VC. Why do you think otherwise?

BTW, from CNN: "CrunchFund itself has largely flown-under the radar. It doesn't even have a website."

Heh, "under the radar" is an interesting way of looking at it.

They might not make a lot of noise now, but CrunchFund was the trigger for several days of utter and very public chaos at AOL/TechCrunch when it launched, leading to Arrington being fired because of AOL's own choices and disclaimer of journalistic ethics, but not really, but oh maybe really, but no, but yes, but now he's back, and AOL still doesn't know WTF they're doing...

and iirc m.g.Siegler is now at Google ventures