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Cascade

Cascade

Winter 2026

Making Autonomous Intelligence Safe & Reliable

San Francisco, CA, USA20262 peopleActive
B2BSecurityInfrastructureTrust & SafetyAI
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About Company

Cascade builds software infrastructure for autonomous intelligence with self-improving safety and reliability models that continuously maintain, update, and prevent threats and failures at scale.

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Adam AlSayyad

Adam AlSayyad

Founder

Adam is the Co-Founder and CEO of Cascade. Previously, he was a researcher at the Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research (BAIR) Lab, where his work focused on graph reasoning models, and agentic safety under some of the world's leading ML and AI safety researchers. Adam studied Computer Science at UC Berkeley.

Haluk Cem Demirhan

Haluk Cem Demirhan

Founder

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.

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workspace_premiumBatchWinter 2026
groupTeam Size2
calendar_monthFounded2026
trending_upStageEarly
categoryIndustryB2B
location_onLocationSan Francisco, CA, USA
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