Cascading AI, founded by Stanford and Y Combinator alumni, raised $3.9M in pre-seed funding led by P...
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Cascading AI, founded by Stanford and Y Combinator alumni, raised $3.9M in pre-seed funding led by Peterson Ventures to build Casca, the first AI-native Loan Origination System. Casca automates up to 90% of manual lending work and cuts loan cycle times by 5 days through 30+ data integrations. This signals a pivotal shift as AI-native platforms move beyond basic automation to fundamentally reimagine core banking infrastructure for 30M+ US small businesses.