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Cascade

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Founded 2025

2 Employees

Located in San Francisco, California

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AI for construction wins. $0→$201K cARR in 3 months. Ex-Google Pay, ex-Google Search ML

Cascade is the AI prediction layer for all construction projects, enabling the physical world to be built faster and financed smarter. In the last 3 months, we went from 0 -> $201k cARR. 15 companies signed, 11 in the last month. Our first three companies have more than doubled their spend with us. Our clients have built airports like JFK & LGA, hotels like the Four Seasons & the Ritz, and data centers and nuclear reactors. Hannia & Joana worked together for many years at another AI startup before starting Cascade. Hannia helped scale Google Pay from zero to 100M users, built AI for Pakistan's COVID response and received an award from the Prime Minister. Joana built ML systems for Google Search and for the UK's largest trading app (scaleup). Our Head of Growth was ranked the #2 sales rep at Procore, where she drove $3M in ARR in 2025.

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Meet the Team

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CEO at Cascade

Hannia Zia

Started my career in product at Google, I was on the team that scaled Google Pay India 0 → 100M users. I got a patent for my payment authentication design and wrote White Paper with the World Bank on open API payment systems. Built AI for the Pakistani Government during COVID, received an award from the Prime Minister and got Forbes 30u30. Led Product @ UnlikelyAI ($20M raised), AI for top banks & insurance cos.

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CTO at Cascade

Joana Ferreira

Early Eng @ Freetrade (UK largest trading app), ML for Google Search, Amazon and AI Platform Lead @ UnlikelyAI. Grew up in a family of carpenters.