Cascade

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Distilling Proprietary Intelligence

Winter 2026Founded 20252 peopleSan Francisco, CA, USA

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Model Distillation & Fine-tuning PlatformSaaSEnterprises deploying proprietary modelsHigh competition

Moat

Proprietary distillation and alignment techniques; customer data lock-in.

Key risk

Competition from cloud providers and Hugging Face; technical complexity limits adoption.

Why now

Enterprises need to align models to proprietary workflows; cost/speed optimization critical for inference.

Competitors

OpenAI fine-tuning, Hugging Face, cloud providers, Replicate

About

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.

Founders · 2

Adam AlSayyadFounder

Berkeley

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.

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Haluk Cem DemirhanFounder

Amazon

Netflix

Berkeley

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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