AI Startup Cascade Scores $3.5M in Funding Round

The round saw the Backers Andreessen Horowitz, Speedrun, Ada Ventures, Blitzscaling Ventures, Indico Capital, shuckerVC, G2C Ventures and Snowball VC.

The company will use the funding to expand its network and speed up adoption across the industry.

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Cascade helps firms find the right projects before others. It identifies new opportunities, ranks them based on the chances of winning, and finds warm introductions through existing contacts in Outlook and other tools. As more companies use the platform, it gets smarter by learning which opportunities are the best fit, which firms are most trusted, and where partnership opportunities exist.

Big projects leave clues long before an RFP is released. A bond filing, property sale, capital plan, or budget announcement can all signal that a new project is coming. Cascade continuously tracks these signals across permits, property records, earnings calls, government plans, and meeting minutes to help businesses spot new opportunities early, understand what work is coming and identify who is most likely to win it.

"Hedge funds look at a crazy amount of data to predict stock movements,” said Joana Ferreira, co-founder and CTO of Cascade. “We use the same logic to predict construction projects.” Joana previously was an early engineer at one of the largest trading apps in the world.

"Business development in AEC has always run on relationships, timing and institutional memory," said Sarah Sapone Hayes, Director of Strategy & Innovation at FORGE Architecture, the San Francisco design firm behind The Battery SF, the VF Outdoor campus and the city’s first net zero energy office. "Cascade gives us a systematic way to see the opportunities that matter, a credible path into them, and far less manual work behind every pursuit."

"Construction is one of the largest markets in the world, and the way firms find and win work has barely changed in decades," said Marcus Segal, Investor at Andreessen Horowitz Speedrun. "Cascade starts with a painful revenue problem. That is a powerful wedge into how construction work gets pursued, partnered on and delivered."

About Cascade

Founded in 2025 by Hannia Zia and Joana Ferreira, Cascade is an AI platform for architecture, engineering, and construction firms. It helps companies find projects before they become public, identify the opportunities they are most likely to win and catch design issues before construction begins.

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