Cascade YC Application

Winter 2026Active

Cascade went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2026 batch as a B2B company. Below: what the company does, who founded it, and its application to YC, reconstructed question by question in the real YC form.

YC batch: Winter 2026
Industry: B2BInfrastructure
Team size: 2
Status: Active
Launched: 2026

Founders

Adam AlSayyadFounder
Haluk Cem DemirhanFounder

What Cascade does

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.

Cascade's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Cascade, Winter 2026 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Cascade

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Distilling Proprietary Intelligence

What is your company going to make? Please describe your product and what it does or will do.

We build software that helps companies take their proprietary data and workflows to create custom AI models aligned with their specific use cases. This results in faster, cheaper, and more accurate intelligence tailored to their internal needs, not generic models.

Where do you live now, and where would the company be based after YC?

We live now and will continue to base the company in San Francisco, CA, USA.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is where we live and work. It offers the network and talent needed for building AI infrastructure for B2B customers.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Cascade YC application?

No. Y Combinator keeps submitted applications private. This is a reconstruction: the real YC form questions, answered from Cascade's public data (launch notes, founder backgrounds, product description). It shows how a company like Cascade would present itself to YC, not the text they submitted.