Cascade

Cascade

Distilling Proprietary Intelligence

San Francisco
2 employees
Seed · $500K

About Cascade

Cascade helps companies take their proprietary data and workflows to align models for their use cases, resulting in higher throughput intelligence that works better, faster, and cheaper.

Company details

Team Size2
LocationSan Francisco

Funding

Total raised

$500K

Last stage

Seed

Investors

Y Combinator

Founders

HD

Haluk Cem Demirhan

Haluk is the Co-Founder and CTO of Cascade. Previously, he built production monitoring infrastructure and scaled agent systems at companies like Netflix and Amazon. His research at BAIR Lab covered long-horizon memory optimization and failure mode taxonomies for AI agents. Haluk studied Computer Science and Mathematics at UC Berkeley.

Adam AlSayyad

Adam AlSayyad

Previously a researcher at the Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research (BAIR) Lab, focused on graph reasoning models and agentic safety. Studied Computer Science at UC Berkeley.

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What happens next.

No applications, no recruiter spam. Just the intro.

01

Confirm the fit

A few questions to make sure this role is the right shape for you. Two minutes.

02

I pitch you to the company

I write the intro, send it to the founder, and handle the back-and-forth.

03

A meeting lands on your calendar

If they’re a yes, I book the chat. You show up — that’s the whole job-hunt.