Ari | Theo (@AriPingle) — Twitter Score 41 out of 1000

Ari is a crypto entrepreneur who co-founded Theo, a network connecting onchain capital to global markets through institutional-grade trading infrastructure. Ari's Twitter Score is 41 out of 1000 as of September 2026, ranking #22,967 (top 5%) among 486,573 tracked accounts.

Ari, whose full name is Arijit Pingle, co-founded Theo alongside Abhi Pingle and TK Kwon, previously working at Optiver as a quantitative trader before leaving to pursue DeFi. Per Fortune, he and his co-founders departed their high-frequency-trading firms in 2022 to work on the Canto blockchain, then launched Theo in late 2023. He serves as Co-Founder and Co-CEO of the project.

Ari has helped build Theo into a platform offering strategies including high-frequency arbitrage, cross-chain funding-rate optimization and hedging, with the protocol handling execution, risk and capital allocation on behalf of users. Per Fortune, Theo raised a seed round of $4.5 million led by Manifold Trading in March 2024, followed by a $15.5 million round led by Hack VC and Anthos Capital, with the total $20 million raise announced in April 2025. Additional backers include Mirana Ventures, Metalayer Ventures, Flowdesk, Amber Group, Selini Capital and angels from firms such as Citadel, Jane Street, HRT, IMC, 5 Rings and JPMorgan. Ari's account has 25,493 followers as of September 2026 and 1,291 posts, and has been mentioned by 5 accounts a total of 5 times.

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The accounts that follow Ari include 115 founders, 47 angel investors, 79 influencers and 1 VCs. Among them are jesse.base.eth, Laura Shin, CL, Tarun Chitra, Mario Nawfal and Arjun Balaji.