Ben Aratame (@benaratame) — Twitter Score 92 out of 1000

Ben Aratame is an angel investor and startup operator who co-founded instinct© and founded Aratame Fund, a microgrant program he personally funds. Ben Aratame's Twitter Score is 92 out of 1000 (a Good rating) as of September 2026, ranking #8,078 (top 5%) among 486,573 tracked accounts.

Ben Aratame co-founded instinct© and also co-founded CHOPPED VC. He founded Aratame Fund, which provides grants ranging from $100 to $1,000 with no repayment required, funded solely by him, with any community contributions going directly toward grants. He also founded RankExchange and created Methods, a UGC marketplace app he built as a fully bootstrapped project with no outside capital.

Ben Aratame previously worked at Ideogram, Cluely, Arcade, Airchat, Cal AI, Turbo, Retro, and Coconote, taking on growth, strategy, and marketing roles across those teams. He describes himself as a creator with more than 350,000 followers across social platforms. Ben Aratame has noted publicly that he purchased bitcoin at $12,000 and again at $32,000. His account has published 1,920 posts and has been mentioned by 12 accounts a total of 12 times.

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The accounts that follow Ben Aratame include 317 founders, 88 angel investors and 154 influencers, among them Marc Andreessen, Luca Netz, Vance Spencer, Foobar, John Wang and Icebergy.