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62nd percentile
Forbes 30U30 founder building AI for AEC firms, backed by a16z Speedrun
Credibility
GTM / Distribution · 69th percentile
- Cascade is part of the a16z Speedrun program, placing it in the a16z portfolio (a16z.com ranks #3,936 in the Majestic Million).
Relationship Matrix
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Founder score
- 92%Probability of being accurate (92%)Current founder and CEO of Cascade, an AI platform for AEC firms, founded in 2025.
- 88%Probability of being accurate (88%)Cascade is part of the a16z Speedrun program, placing it in the a16z portfolio (a16z.com ranks #3,936 in the Majestic Million).
- 85%Probability of being accurate (85%)GitHub account @Hanniazia is dormant with no public repo push activity detected.
- 82%Probability of being accurate (82%)Named Forbes 30 Under 30, a widely recognized achievement signal.
- 80%Probability of being accurate (80%)GitHub account @Hanniazia identified as belonging to Hannia Zia.
- 80%Probability of being accurate (80%)GitHub account @Hanniazia has been active for approximately 6 years (created May 2020).
What you likely need
You're at the stage where the right room matters more than almost anything else — a warm intro from an a16z partner to one AEC enterprise buyer can compress months of cold outreach into a single dinner. Festival events that put you in front of AEC industry executives, seed-stage investors who know the construction-tech space, and technical co-founder candidates with domain depth will move the needle fastest. Lean into your a16z Speedrun and Forbes 30U30 credentials as social proof in every room you walk into.
Would you attend these IRL Festival events?
We will tune and customize your Founder Festival experience to make sure you get invited to the events that would be most valuable to you.
- introsAn a16z Speedrun founder dinner focused on converting partner relationships into warm introductions to AEC enterprise decision-makers who can become Cascade's first design-partner customers
- fundraisingA seed-stage fundraising roundtable for a16z Speedrun and Forbes 30U30 founders building in construction-tech and AEC to pressure-test round narratives and get warm intros to Tier 1 seed funds writing first checks in the space
- introsA Yale alumni founder dinner to surface AEC industry executives and angel investors from the network who can provide both domain expertise and early capital for Cascade's seed round
- positioningA positioning workshop for early-stage AI founders in regulated industries — AEC, infrastructure, gov-tech — to co-develop data-backed thought leadership and case studies that drive inbound from enterprise buyers
- hiringA technical co-founder mixer for pre-seed AI infrastructure founders seeking a first engineering hire with domain depth, focused on matching builders who have AEC, construction, or enterprise workflow backgrounds
- positioningA happy hour for founders who have shipped at government or civic scale — think Digital Pakistan, USDS alumni, Code for America — to swap enterprise GTM playbooks and build credibility narratives for institutional AEC buyers
- tacticalA build-in-public night for early-stage AI agent founders to ship open-source tooling live, swap GitHub strategies, and build the kind of technical credibility on public commits that attracts both senior engineering hires and investor conviction