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CASCADE TECHNOLOGIES INC

Palo Alto, CA · Defense · Acquired by Cadence Design Systems

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Sector
Defense
Headquarters
Palo Alto, CA
Latest Form D
$1.1M, Apr 2010
Total capital
$19.5M
Federal grants
$3.4M
4 awards · 2015–2022
Rank in peer group#113 of 161
Private capital raised
$1.1M
1 Form D · last Apr 2010
198 months since last filing
Federal contracts
$14.9M
38 awards · Defense, NASA
Rank in Defense#327 of 1442
Granted patents
1
first 2018
Rank in peer group#44 of 161

Capital timeline

20052009201320172021FEDERAL ↑EQUITY ↓Cumulative $19.5M2005: $948K across 1 contract2007: $890K across 2 contracts2008: $1M across 2 contracts2009: $270K across 3 contracts2010: $2.1M across 8 contracts$2.1M2011: $1.1M across 2 contracts2012: $1M across 2 contracts2013: $150K across 1 contract2014: $230K across 2 contracts2015: $2M across 1 grant · $1.1M across 2 contracts$3.2M2017: $125K across 1 grant · $275K across 2 contracts2018: $2.7M across 4 contracts$2.7M2019: $1.1M across 3 contracts$1.1M2020: $1.1M across 1 grant · $125K across 1 contract$1.2M2021: $1.6M across 2 contracts$1.6M2022: $140K across 1 grant · $150K across 1 contract1st Form D$1.1M
20052009201320172021FEDERAL ↑EQUITY ↓Cumulative $19.5M2005: $948K across 1 contract2007: $890K across 2 contracts2008: $1M across 2 contracts2009: $270K across 3 contracts2010: $2.1M across 8 contracts$2.1M2011: $1.1M across 2 contracts2012: $1M across 2 contracts2013: $150K across 1 contract2014: $230K across 2 contracts2015: $2M across 1 grant · $1.1M across 2 contracts$3.2M2017: $125K across 1 grant · $275K across 2 contracts2018: $2.7M across 4 contracts$2.7M2019: $1.1M across 3 contracts2020: $1.1M across 1 grant · $125K across 1 contract2021: $1.6M across 2 contracts$1.6M2022: $140K across 1 grant · $150K across 1 contract1st Form D$1.1M

Latest events

  • Federal contractNASA · E014042 SBIR Phase I Gpu-accelerated Les Framework For Aeroacoustic Predictions Of Integrated Systems$150K
  • Federal grantDefense · Phase I · Tools and approaches for model-consistent data-enabled turbulence modeling for hypersonic flows$140K
  • Federal contractDefense · Models For Engine Combustor Turbine$75K
  • Federal contractDefense · Research And Development$1.5M
  • Federal contractNASA · A Gpu-accelerated Full-wheel Multi-stage Turbomachinery Flow Solver$125K
  • Federal grantDefense · Phase II · Conjugate heat transfer for LES of gas turbine engines$1.1M
  • Federal contractDefense · Research And Development$240K
  • Private capital raisedForm D · SEC · 1st filing$1.1M
Show 35 earlier federal awards
  • Federal contractNASA · Cascade Technologies Has Developed A Massively Parallel Voronoi-based Mesh Generation Tool Called "stitch". Given A Water-tight Surface Triangulation Of Arbitrary Complexity And A Set Of Generating Points (effectively Cell Centers), Stitch Can Efficiently Compute The 3D Clipped Voronoi Diagram And Output A Mesh. This Approach Was Demonstrated To Be Fast And Scalable, As Well As Robust To Complex Geometry: An 11.4B Cell Mesh Of The NASA Hl-crm Was Generated In 22 Minutes On 43200 Cores. Because T$750K
  • Federal contractDefense · SBIR I Massively-parallel, Low-dissipation, Compressible, Two-phase Discretization For High-speed Fl$150K
  • Federal contractDefense · Igf::ot::igf$1.5M
  • Federal contractDefense · New Army SBIR Phase II Contract Titled, High-fidelity Design Tools And Technologies For High-pressure Heavy Fuel Injectors // Solicitation: DOD 17.1 SBIR$1.0M
  • Federal contractNASA · In This Work We Propose To Further Develop And Demonstrate A Mesh Generation Approach Based On Clipped Voronoi Diagrams. This Approach To Mesh Generation Has The Potential To Significantly Improve Performance And Robustness, While Retaining Important Elements Of High Quality Meshes Including Boundary Alignment, Stretching, And Element Regularity. Clipped Voronoi Diagrams Also Automatically De-feature The Underlying Geometry At The Local Resolution Of The Generating Points, And Can Thus Significa$125K
  • Federal contractNASA · Our Long-term Vision Is To Seamlessly Integrate Resolvent Operator-based Spectral Analysis Into Cascade S High-fidelity Large Eddy Simulation (les) Environment, For Accurate Prediction And Efficient Modeling Of Supersonic Jet Noise From Complex Nozzles. Resolvent Analysis Is A Frequency-domain Technique That Can Identify Resonance Phenomena Such As Jet Screech And Other Tonal Acoustic Effects, Predict The Large-scale Coherent Structures That Are The Main Source Of Aft Angle Jet Noise, And That P$125K
  • Federal contractDefense · Igf::ot::igf SBIR Ph I A17-031 High-fidelity Design Tools And Technologies For High-pressure Heavy Fuel Injectors$150K
  • Federal grantNASA · Phase I · Machine-Learning & QMU for Multi-Fidelity Analysis of Scramjet Operability$125K
  • Federal contractNASA · Igf::ot::igf In This Proposal, Researchers From Cascade Technologies And Stanford University Outline A Multi-year Research Plan To Develop Large-eddy Simulation (les) Tools To Predict And Understand Combustion Instabilities In Liquid-propellant Rocket Engines. Rocket Instabilities Are A Notoriously Complicated, Multiscale Problem Involving Nonlinear Interactions Between Transcritical Multiphase Flows, Turbulent Mixing, Combustion Heat Release, And Acoustics. Each Of These Technical Areas Will B$125K
  • Federal grantDefense · Phase II · Modeling of interior nozzle flows for transient effects, realistic high performance nozzle physics and coupling to Large Eddy Simulation modeling of t$2M
  • Federal contractDefense · Research And Development, SBIR Phase II, Igf::ot::igf$997K
  • Federal contractDefense · Igf::ot::igf "phase Transitions, Nucleation And Mixing Modeling Through Trans-critical Conditions STTR Phase 1$150K
  • Federal contractDefense · SBIR Pi, Cascade Technologies Inc. - Awd$150K
  • Federal contractDefense · N14A-T005$80K
  • Federal contractDefense · N132-102$150K
  • Federal contractDefense · Turbulent Combustion Interaction Models For Les Simulations Of High Speed Flow$750K
  • Federal contractDefense · Research And Development In The Physical, Engineering, And Life Sciences (except Biotechnology)$300K
  • Federal contractDefense · Research&development$1.0M
  • Federal contractDefense · STTR Phase I$100K
  • Federal contractDefense · R&d SBIR Topic N103-195$80K
  • Federal contractDefense · Research And Development Topic N09-T008$744K
  • Federal contractDefense · (STTR Phase II) Heat Transfer Prediction In Transitional Hypersonic Flow$750K
  • Federal contractDefense · R&d SBIR Topic N102-133$80K
  • Federal contractDefense · R&d SBIR Topic N101-028$150K
  • Federal contractDefense · SBIR 1$100K
  • Federal contractNASA · Installation Effects Arising From Propulsion Airframe Interaction Are Known To Produce Substantial Variations In The In-situ Jet Noise. A Hybrid Les/rans Computational Framework Is Proposed For Prediction Of Noise From The Engine And Airframe, And Interactions Between Airframe And Propulsion Systems. The Basis Of Les (large Eddy Simulation) Is That The Energy-bearing Turbulent Eddies In The Dominant Noise-generating Region Are Directly Captured In The Simulation. Since Les Must Resolve The Turb$100K
  • Federal contractNASA · Rotorcraft Design And Optimization Currently Still Rely Largely On Simplified (low-fidelity) Models, Such As Rotor Disk Or Wake Models To Reduce The Turn-around Time And Allow Exploration Of A Large Parameter Space. On The Other Hand, Accurate Noise Prediction Requires First Principle, High Fidelity Simulations To Capture Small Scales, Highly Unsteady Aerodynamic Sources Of Noise. This Forces US To Resort To Component-wise Acoustics Computations, Ignoring The Fact That Different Components In Th$100K
  • Federal contractDefense · STTR Phase I Topic N09-T009$70K
  • Federal contractDefense · R&d STTR Topic N09-T008$100K
  • Federal contractDefense · (sttr-phase 1) Heat Transfer Prediction In Transitional Hypersonic Flow$100K
  • Federal contractDefense · STTR Phase I - (ffp) Guiding Action$100K
  • Federal contractDefense · Phase II R&d SBIR Topic N07-046$930K
  • Federal contractDefense · STTR Phase 2 ($550K To $750K) Inc Funding/no Opt Cpff$740K
  • Federal contractDefense · R&d SBIR Phase II Topic N07-046.$150K
  • Federal contractDefense · 200511!384720!1700!N68335!NAVAL Air Engineering Station !N6833505C0238 !a!n! !y! ! !20050826!20070831!179576715!179576715!179576715!N!CASCADE Technologies, Inc !812 Esplanada Way !stanford !CA!94305!73906!085!06!STANFORD !santa Clara !CALIFORNIA!+000000500000!N!N!000000948714!AC62!RDTE/ELECTRONICS & Communication Eq-applied Resea !A7 !electronics And Communication Equip !000 !* !541710!E! !3! ! ! ! ! !202$948K

Federal awards are summed by year (42 awards); hover a bar for the split. Form D reports securities sold, which can differ from an announced round; filings are numbered in the order they were made.

Federal first

56months

from CASCADE TECHNOLOGIES INC’s first federal award to its first private round.

First federal award · Aug 2005
Defense · $948K
First Form D · Apr 2010
$1.1M · 1st Form D
Awards before first raise
11 awards

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Standing among 161 peers

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Defense · Software

  • Federal grantsBelow median
  • Granted patents#44 · top 27%

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Founders and team

From SEC Form D filings
  • Daniel FarkasDirectorNamed in SEC Form D filings
  • Erik LindsleyExecutive Officer, DirectorNamed in SEC Form D filings
  • Jacqueline DanforthExecutive Officer, DirectorNamed in SEC Form D filings

What it has protected

USPTO · 1 granted of 1

Related companies, and why

Regulatory activity · Defense

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Sources

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