Cadence

Cadence (cadencework.com) was a San Francisco-based company that provided team-building events and company gatherings for remote-first and distributed organizations. Its Y Combinator listing describes the product simply as "delightful team-building events for remote companies," categorised under SaaS and B2B. Aggregator material describes the offering as a platform for structured online experiences that help geographically dispersed employees connect and build professional relationships outside normal work processes, aiming to substitute for the informal social dynamics of a shared physical office.

One secondary profile attributes a broader feature set to the company, including customisation and branding without code, internal social features such as interest-based matching and competitions, support for virtual, in-person and hybrid formats, integrations with HR, CRM and registration systems, and SSO, calendar sync and push notifications. That description is unverified by primary sources and is the only place these capabilities appear. The same profile states that details of Cadence's event formats and revenue model were not publicly disclosed and that the company operated with a core staff of two.

Several of the documents retrieved for this profile concern unrelated organisations that share the Cadence name — the public EDA and computational software firm Cadence Design Systems (Nasdaq: CDNS, San Jose), the digital health / remote patient monitoring company Cadence (cadence.care) led by Chris Altchek, and a Bay Area business coaching practice called Cadence Business Development. None of these relate to cadencework.com and none of their facts are recorded here.

Founding story

Cadence was founded in 2019 by Melissa Du and Eric Park. A secondary profile states that both founders had worked in distributed environments and saw a gap in tools that could reproduce the spontaneous connections of a traditional office, and that they set out to deliver in-person-style event experiences at scale for remote companies. The same source reports early adoption among Bay Area startups and technology companies and notes the company's acceptance into Y Combinator's Winter 2020 batch.

Business model

Cadence sold structured virtual and hybrid team-building events and company gatherings to organizations, positioning itself as an outsourced provider of employee-engagement experiences for distributed workforces. One aggregator profile describes an end-to-end model in which Cadence handles planning, branding, execution and follow-up of events, reducing the workload for HR teams and team leads, and describes the offering as software-driven and delivered as a platform rather than purely as a service. The same profile notes that specific details of the company's proprietary event formats and underlying revenue model were not publicly disclosed.

Not disclosed. One source explicitly states that Cadence's underlying revenue model was not publicly disclosed, while describing the offering as a platform-based service sold to companies.

Traction

Traction data is thin. The company is listed with a team size of two and an employee range of 1-10, and total reported funding of $7.6M across four rounds. A secondary profile mentions early adoption among Bay Area startups and technology companies but gives no customer counts, revenue or usage figures. No named customers appear in the sources.

Latest developments

The most recent funding entry recorded for the company is a $930K seed round dated June 2022. Both Y Combinator's directory and an independent startup data aggregator list Cadence's status as inactive, with no operating milestones reported after 2022. Founder Melissa Du's Y Combinator profile lists her as working on GPU deployment at Voltage Park. No shutdown announcement, acquisition or wind-down statement appears in the sources.