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Cascade
Continuous integration that predicts flaky tests before they run.
- Stage
- Seed
- Founded
- Founded 2023
- First invested
- We invested 2024
- Team
- 13 people
- Board
- Board seat
- Total raised
- $3.5M
- Current stage
- Seed
- Team
- 13
- Founded
- 2023
What they build
The product, in plain terms
Cascade builds continuous integration that predicts flaky tests before they run. The company started in Remote in 2023. We backed it at seed and have worked with the team through Seed.
- 01
A product engineers adopt on their own before anyone signs a contract.
- 02
Performance treated as a feature, with benchmarks published rather than claimed.
- 03
A commercial layer that begins where a team stops being one person and becomes an organisation.
Where it stands
Numbers the team watches
Reported by the company at its most recent board meeting. We publish what founders are comfortable publishing and nothing more.
- Weekly active teams
- 325
- Free to paid conversion
- 86%
- Median setup
- 7 weeks
Why we invested
The note from the first meeting
“We met Cascade in 2024, back when the incumbent was free and already installed everywhere. They were building the boring half of the product first, which almost nobody does, and it made the rest of the roadmap credible.”
- Rebuilt pricing twice and doubled contract value both times.
- Opened a second market within a year of its seed round.
- Reached default-alive economics before raising a priced round.
Founders
Who is building it
Both founders were in the room the day we wrote the check, and both still run the company.
Ada Hansen
Co-founder and CEO
Came out of an operating role rather than a lab, and it shows in the roadmap.
Bilal Nasser
Co-founder and CTO
Left a research group to find out whether the work survived contact with customers.
Timeline
How it has gone
The version we would give another investor, including the years where nothing looked like progress.
- 2023
Founded
Ada Hansen and Bilal Nasser start Cascade in Remote around a single wedge: continuous integration that predicts flaky tests before they run.
- 2024
We invested
We wrote the seed check and took a board seat. Priya Nair has worked with the team ever since.
- 2025
Paid customers
Contracts replaced pilots, and the company stopped selling a roadmap and started selling a product.
- 2026
Seed round
Raised at $22M, led by an investor we introduced during diligence. We took our full pro rata.
- 2026
Where it stands
13 people, selling in more markets than it started in, still run by the two people who wrote the first version.
Alongside us
Co-investors
We share rounds with people we would want on our own cap table.
- Bessemer
- Index Ventures
- Costanoa
- Craft Ventures
Working here
Open roles
Cascade is hiring in these areas. Mention us and the note gets to the founders directly.
- Systems engineering
- Developer relations
- Growth
Building something next to Cascade?
We are usually early to a category and happy to be early again. Send us the short version.