# Aaron Rankin

> Aaron Rankin is a seed investor at Sprout Social backing Software and Fitness. See 8 investments, round sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: Sprout Social
- Location: Chicago, United States
- Total investments: 8
- Last investment: Mar 2022
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aaronrankin
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/aaronrankin
- Website: https://rfamily.ventures

Aaron Rankin is a co-founder and the CTO of Sprout Social, a leading Social Media Management (SMM) platform.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 3 | 38% |
| Fitness | 2 | 25% |
| Real Time | 2 | 25% |
| Information Technology | 2 | 25% |
| Apps | 1 | 13% |

25 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 5 | 63% |
| Pre-Seed | 2 | 25% |
| Series A | 1 | 13% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 7 | 88% |
| Canada | 1 | 13% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Round size | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| OpsLevel | OpsLevel is a microservice catalog that helps developers build more reliable software and resolve production incidents faster. OpsLevel has built-in maturity features that give teams the ability to measure, build, and deploy services to any cloud. Through service ownership and developer portals, OpsLevel makes it easier for businesses to ship andoperate high-quality software. | $15M | Series A | Mar 01, 2022 |  |
| Fathom | An audiovisual recording service that integrates with both Zoom and Google Calendar. | $4.7M | Seed | Jan 24, 2022 |  |
| Audit Sight | Audit Sight uses APIs to access the client’s records, eliminating the tedious process of asking for them and waiting for a recordkeeper to compile and send them. | $2.5M | Seed | Oct 22, 2021 |  |
| AuthZed | AuthZed is a company focused on providing solutions for building fine-grained authorization services. The company offers a managed service called AuthZed Dedicated, which provides a production-ready version of its open-source project SpiceDB, designed to deliver highly available, consistent, and performant authorization at global scale. AuthZedalso licenses the SpiceDB Enterprise package, which includes additional enterprise functionality for self-hosted deployments. | $3.9M | Seed | Apr 21, 2021 |  |
| Fable | Fable collaborates to build and sync the tools to capture key decisions. Their work includes organizing project spaces, communicating decisions, and collaborating on user stories. It is a subscription-based service provider. |  | Seed | Mar 22, 2021 |  |
| Inverse | Inverse is a metaverse game platform and studio building the next-generation of digital community and social experiences. These experiences include virtual events, multiplayer games, and branded worlds on web/mobile that can be customized, monetized, and augmented by NFTs. | $830K | Pre-Seed | Mar 01, 2021 |  |
| Nutrisense | Nutrisense is a health and wellness platform that monitors blood glucose levels in real-time with CGM and a tracking app. It personalizes nutrition by leveraging state-of-the-art continuous glucose monitoring and machine learning technology. The company's mission is to help anybody discover and reach their health potential.Nutrisense wasfounded in 2019 and is based in Chicago, Illinois. | $2.5M | Seed | Oct 30, 2020 |  |
| indiFIT | Empowering fitness instructors & trainers to earn more by hosting independent classes | $500K | Pre-Seed | Aug 01, 2020 |  |

8 of 8 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [MKT1 Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mkt1) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Y Combinator](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/y-combinator) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [500 Global](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/500-startups) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Active Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/active-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Alumni Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alumni-ventures-group) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Amplify Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/amplify-partners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Sprout Social

VC Fund · Chicago, United States

Sprout Social is built on the idea that the world is better when businesses and customers communicate freely. They exist to help streamline and enhance those conversations—with customers, prospects and enthusiasts. Their platform is packed with handy features but stays out of the way to let brands easily engage with people and build lastingrelationships.

5 contacts available at Sprout Social.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Aaron Rankin | Co-Founder & CTO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aaron-rankin |
| Gil Lara | Chief Creative Officer & Co-founder | — |
| Arnita Curtis | VP of Product | — |
| Boo Fagan | Director, Product Design | — |
| Justyn Howard | Founder & Chief Executive Officer | — |

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## FAQ

### What does Aaron Rankin invest in?

Aaron Rankin invests primarily in Software, Fitness and Real Time startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 8 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact Aaron Rankin?

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### When did Aaron Rankin last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Aaron Rankin closed in Mar 2022. Shizune tracks 8 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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