About Fastino
Fastino Labs is a research lab based in Palo Alto, California, building small language models and tooling such as Pioneer to inference and fine-tune language models. The company is the creator of Pioneer, a platform that improves the accuracy of language models in production over time, and the GLiNER open-source model family, which has been downloaded more than 30 million times and is used in production by Fortune 500 teams including NVIDIA, Meta, and Airbnb. Fastino Labs has raised $25 million through its seed round and is backed by investors including Khosla Ventures, Insight Partners, and Microsoft M12.
Company details
Funding
Total raised
$24.6M
Last stage
Seed
Investors
Founders
Ash Lewis
CEO and co-founder of Fastino. Previously founded DevGPT, a developer AI community with clients like Spotify, DoorDash, and IBM. Moved from England to Palo Alto to build Fastino.
LinkedInGeorge Hurn-Maloney
COO and co-founder of Fastino. Previously founder of Waterway DevOps, acquired by JFrog in 2023. Silicon Valley investor prior to co-founding Fastino.
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