Aden blog · Mar 2026
Focuses on operational reliability and cost-control patterns for AI apps, including token-aware gateways, priority queuing, and semantic caching.
Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Aden (formerly Acho) is a YC-backed AI-native ERP / agent-infrastructure company that builds Hive and OpenHive for creating, running, and governing autonomous AI workflows with persistent memory, observability, human-in-the-loop controls, and cost management.
Primary product
Hive (with OpenHive as the open-source framework)
Founded
2020
Headquarters
San Francisco, California, United States
Team size
15
Industry
Technology, Information and Internet
Sub-industry
AI-native ERP / AI agent infrastructure
Offices
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Business model
Stage
Seed
Total raised
$3.2M
Latest round
Seed · Aug 2023
Latest amount
$1M
Leadership
CEO & Founder
Co-founder & Founding Engineer
Head of Sales
Investors
Hiring copy emphasizes a small, exceptional team, hard infrastructure problems, and work at the frontier of autonomous systems. Publicly visible hiring pages are San Francisco-based and framed around building AI-agent infrastructure.
Compensation
A publicly posted YC Engineering Lead role showed $100K-$200K salary plus 1.0%-5.0% equity, which is the clearest public compensation signal found.
Pricing
Public pages indicate subscription pricing with paid plans and free-trial/demo entry points; the product also emphasizes usage/cost controls and budget enforcement.
Differentiators
Technology
Customers
Competitors
Estimated revenue
~$3.8M ARR (estimate)
Aden blog · Mar 2026
Focuses on operational reliability and cost-control patterns for AI apps, including token-aware gateways, priority queuing, and semantic caching.
Aden blog · Feb 2026
Explains Aden Hive as a generative-compiler / intent-to-graph framework and compares it with LangGraph, CrewAI, AutoGen, and LlamaIndex.
LinkedIn · Jan 2026
Public launch of Hive as open source, with the company emphasizing building in the open and the new execution-graph / goal-driven agent model.
Acho/Aden blog · Jan 2025
Official rebrand/strategy post announcing Aden as the new AI-driven enterprise application platform and describing the move from the older data platform to AI operation agents.
TechCrunch · Feb 2022
Reports the company’s 2022 seed financing: $2.2M led by Goat Capital, with Liquid2 Ventures and Capital X participating.