Hannia Zia

Helping AEC firms win more projects with AI | Founder & CEO, Cascade

Founder

Cascade· Speedrun 006🇬🇧 United Kingdom

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2025Founder· Cascade

Founder · since 2025

Company

Cascade

Role

Founder & CEO

current

Stage

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Raised

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no public source

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Founder / co-founder — the company's markEmployee / research role

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Cascade

AI for construction wins.

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Experience

Career

Cascade
Founder
Founder & CEO · 2025 – Present
2025
Unlikely AI
Vice President of Product Management · London, England, United Kingdom · 2023 – 2025
2023
Infiniti VC
Advisor · 2023
2023
Entrepreneur First
Entrepreneur In Residence · London, England, United Kingdom · 2022
2022
Ponto
Senior Product Manager · 2022
2022
Venture for Pakistan
Mentor · 2020 – 2021
2020
Centre for Economic Research in Pakistan (CERP)
Product Management Consultant · Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan · 2020 – 2021
2020
Google
Product Manager · Singapore · 2018 – 2020
2018
Google
Associate Product Manager · Zürich, Switzerland · 2017 – 2018
2017
Google
Associate Product Manager · Mountain View, California · 2016 – 2017
2016
Digital Pakistan
Product Manager · Islamabad, Islāmābād, Pakistan · 2020
2020
Yale University
Student Tech · 2012 – 2015
2012
Yale University
Student Developer · New Haven, Connecticut · 2014 – 2015
2014
Google
Associate Product Manager Intern · Mountain View, California · 2015
2015
Microsoft
Explorer Intern · Redmond · 2014
2014
Facebook
iOS Developer - Facebook U · Menlo Park · 2013
2013

Bio

Started my career in product at Google, I was on the team that scaled Google Pay India 0 → 100M users. I got a patent for my payment authentication design and wrote White Paper with the World Bank on open API payment systems. Built AI for the Pakistani Government during COVID, received an award from the Prime Minister and got Forbes 30u30. Led Product @ UnlikelyAI ($20M raised), AI for top banks & insurance cos.