Winning major engineering and construction contracts has traditionally depended on relationships, market knowledge, and the ability to identify opportunities before competitors. Yet many infrastructure and construction projects remain difficult to track during their earliest planning stages, leaving firms to compete only after tenders become public. As artificial intelligence transforms industries through advanced data analysis and prediction, new technologies are beginning to reshape how businesses identify commercial opportunities. London based startup Cascade is applying AI to this challenge by helping engineering, architecture, and construction companies uncover projects long before they officially enter the market, and the company has now secured fresh investment to accelerate its growth.
Cascade has raised $3.5 million in a seed funding round led by Andreessen Horowitz Speedrun.
The investment also attracted participation from Ada Ventures, Blitzscaling Ventures, Indico Capital, shuckerVC, G2C Ventures, and Snowball VC.
The company plans to use the funding to strengthen its AI platform, expand its market coverage, and accelerate customer adoption across the engineering and construction sectors.
Bringing Predictive Intelligence to Construction
Founded by former Google operators Hannia Zia and Joana Ferreira, Cascade was created to improve how engineering, architecture, and construction firms discover business opportunities.
Rather than relying on traditional market research or waiting for public tenders, the company’s platform analyses thousands of early indicators that suggest new infrastructure and construction projects are being planned.
Its objective is to help businesses engage with potential projects much earlier, providing additional time to prepare proposals, build relationships, and improve their chances of securing contracts.
The company believes early access to market intelligence creates a significant competitive advantage.
Detecting Projects Before They Become Public
Cascade’s artificial intelligence platform continuously analyses large volumes of publicly available information to identify signals associated with future projects.
The system examines bond filings, capital investment plans, property transactions, building permits, government budgets, corporate earnings transcripts, public meeting records, and other planning documents.
By connecting these diverse data sources, the platform identifies emerging projects before formal procurement processes begin.
This predictive approach enables businesses to monitor future opportunities across multiple markets while reducing dependence on manual research.
The company aims to make business development more proactive and data driven.
Supporting Engineering and Construction Firms
Cascade is designed specifically for organisations operating across architecture, engineering, and construction.
The platform helps companies identify projects that closely match their expertise while improving visibility into future infrastructure investment.
Instead of reviewing large volumes of fragmented information manually, teams receive curated intelligence highlighting opportunities where they are likely to have a competitive advantage.
The company says this enables businesses to focus their resources more effectively while improving sales efficiency and long term planning.
According to Cascade, its platform has already identified more than $10 billion worth of project opportunities for customers.
Growing International Presence
Operating from both London and New York, Cascade is expanding its presence within international infrastructure markets.
Its customers include organisations involved in major public infrastructure developments, including projects connected with large transportation hubs.
The newly secured funding will support continued development of the company’s predictive intelligence platform while expanding the network of information sources analysed by its artificial intelligence models.
Improving the depth and accuracy of these data connections remains a central priority as the platform evolves.
Transforming Opportunity Discovery
Infrastructure spending continues increasing worldwide, creating growing demand for technologies that help businesses identify projects earlier and compete more effectively.
Cascade believes artificial intelligence can fundamentally improve how organisations discover commercial opportunities by replacing fragmented manual research with continuous intelligent analysis.
As AI becomes increasingly integrated into business development workflows, predictive market intelligence is expected to play an increasingly important role across engineering and construction.
With fresh investment, expanding international operations, and growing adoption among infrastructure companies, Cascade is positioning itself to become a key intelligence platform for firms seeking earlier visibility into future projects. By combining advanced AI with large scale analysis of planning data, the company aims to help customers uncover opportunities before they become visible to the wider market, creating a significant advantage in one of the world’s most competitive industries.
