About Cedar
The future of housing isn’t at the edge of the city. It’s in the neighborhoods we already have. Cedar makes infill faster, more predictable, and better designed; architecture, engineering, and proprietary software built into one system. Thousands of residents housed. More to come.
Services
Pre-development
Start with cedarOS. Run feasibility, analyze yield, and flag risks early — so you know what you’re building before you commit.
Design & delivery
We’ve spent years learning how people want to live and what makes a street feel right and a home worth coming back to. We offer full architectural services alongside a growing catalog of vetted designs across every housing typology, helping projects move from concept to permitted drawings faster than the traditional process allows.
Team
Kyle VansiceAIA
Founder & CEO
Nate Peters
Founder & CTO
Kristen PadavicAIA
Chief Design Officer
Jake Allen
Chief Operating Officer
Sam AlamoRA
Senior Project Architect
Ardeshir Beheshti
Lead GIS Engineer
Clark BockhahnPLA
Land Planning Lead
Benedict Cappellacci
GTM Strategy Lead
Arshya Chopra
Senior Product Manager
Ben Eisner
Lead Software Engineer
Amy Goettle
Operations Manager
Jake HawkinsAIA
Project Designer
Justine Huang
Project Coordinator
Dan Illescas
Director of Digital Construction
Suraj Joshi
Software Engineer
Hannah Mayer Baydoun
Project Coordinator
Mike Melson
Director of Business Development
Homairah Munsami
Senior Project Designer
Patrick Ray
Senior Knowledge Graph Engineer
Andy RauchRA
Architectural Product Lead
Danielle SmithAIA
Studio Director
Vishal Vaidhyanathan
Lead Engineer, AI, & Generative System
Amanda Woodward
Director of Brand Identity
Xuan YangAIA
Lead Computational Design
Backing
Advisors
- Maria Davidson CEO · Kojo
- Prateek Jain ML Product Leader · Meta
- Rahul Attraya Co-founder · Cedar
- Ron Thrower Founder · Thrower Design
- Scott Turner Founder · Turner Residential & Riverside Homes
Investors
- Caffeinated Capital
- Tishman Speyer
- Antler
- Shorewind Capital
- Alumni Ventures
- Steve Lesem & Tim Hill · Risinger Build
- Jess Clemans · AO Proptech
- Maria Davidson · Kojo
