Ed Adjei

Ed Adjei is the CEO and co-founder of Aragorn AI, an artificial intelligence startup based in Dallas, Texas, that builds innovative operating systems for modern human resources. He established the company in 2022 alongside his sister and recently secured a $4,300,000 seed round led by LiveOak Ventures, bringing total funding to $5,500,000. Under his leadership, the rapidly growing enterprise software firm is currently on track to surpass $1,000,000 in revenue by the year 2025. Prior to Aragorn AI, Adjei served as Vice President of Engineering at YourCause, where he scaled the platform to over 500 enterprise clients before its $157,000,000 acquisition by Blackbaud. Following this acquisition, he architected a data pipeline integrating 1,700 enterprise clients, including Fortune 500 companies, and he now leverages his software development background to build agentic AI assistants for enterprise HRIS systems.