We’re thrilled to step out of stealth and officially introduce Fastino to the world. We are also excited to announce our $7M pre-seed funding round led by M12, Microsoft’s Venture Fund and Insight.
At Fastino, our mission is simple: enable developers everywhere to do more with AI. We are building a family of developer-first LLMs that are more accurate, faster, and safer.
Fastino was born from our frustration as developers and AI practitioners, navigating the limitations in existing LLMs. We grew tired of opaque APIs, the constant race for GPU resources, and struggles with monolithic, generalized models that require endless prompting and deliver unpredictable results. The lack of control over costs and model performance left us wanting more. We knew there had to be a better way.
This is why we’re building Fastino: a family of task-optimized language models and tools designed for enterprise flexibility and control. Fastino models deliver industry-leading accuracy for every language-related task, from question answering with RAG to textual data structuring, text and document summarization, or generating smart replies. These models run up to 1000 times faster than traditional generalist models, require significantly less compute, and can be deployed wherever they’re needed—whether on commodity CPUs on edge, or in your virtual private cloud. This capability, paired with our intuitive developer tools for fine-tuning and validation, gives enterprises unmatched control over their language models, with consistent and predictable costs.
To bring this ambitious vision to life, we’ve assembled a world-class team led by our co-founders Ash Lewis and George Hurn-Maloney with top AI researchers and developers from Stanford, Oxford, Berkeley, Microsoft, and Google. With a shared commitment to pushing boundaries and building products that deliver real value, we’re tackling the hardest problems in AI, making enterprise-ready language models a reality.
And with the support of world-class investors, we’re just getting started. Fastino’s $7 million pre-seed round was led by Microsoft and Insight Partners, with additional backing from NEA, CRV, Valor, and notable angels including the CEO of Github Thomas Dohmke and executives from Google.
"I’m excited to be an early investor in Fastino, a company on a mission to bring the world accurate, fast, and safe task-specific LLMs that solve organizations’ most pressing challenges. Their novel approach involves a new architecture that runs on CPUs, making AI more accessible for a future with 1B developers."
Thomas Dohmke, CEO of GitHub
Want to learn more? Join the waitlist to be part of our private alpha and see firsthand what Fastino can bring to your enterprise. Or check out opportunities at Fastino.ai to join our team and help us shape the future of enterprise LLMs.