Cascade Raises $3.5M From a16z Speedrun to Predict Construction Projects Before the RFP Exists
What if the most expensive project your firm ever lost was one it never saw? Somewhere in a county capital plan, a nine-figure building already exists on paper. A bond has been filed. A parcel has quietly changed hands. By the time a request for proposals goes public, the shortlist is often already forming, and the firms that waited for the RFP are bidding for scraps.
Cascade, a New York AI startup founded by two former Google and Amazon-adjacent operators, has raised $3.5 million to industrialize that head start, and Andreessen Horowitz's Speedrun program is leading the round.
The seed round, announced today, July 21, 2026, includes Ada Ventures, Blitzscaling Ventures, Indico Capital Partners, shuckerVC, G2C Ventures and Snowball VC alongside a16z Speedrun. Cascade says its customers, firms working on JFK, LaGuardia, data centers and nuclear facilities, have already surfaced more than $10 billion in project opportunities through the...
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