Overview
News
Technologies
Salaries
Products
People
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Offices
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Funding and backers

Total raised
$23.6M
1 round on record
Latest round
$23.6M
Venture round · May 2025 · 17 mo ago
Team
51-200
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
1
+1 posted in 30 days
Backers
2
Plug and Play, Insight Partners
The money's age
Due for its next round
17 months since the last round · and hiring
Momentum
28/100
hiring for its size, in the news
Last sign of life
1 mo ago
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
Apr 20 Launched Fastino Launches Pioneer, the First Agent for Fine-tuning and Inference of LLMs · morningstar.com May 2, 2025 Raised a round Venture round $23.6M · SEC Form D Nov 12, 2024 Launched Fastino Emerges from Stealth With Task-Optimized LLMs - 1000x Faster Than Leading Models, No Need for GPUs · businesswire.com 2024 Founded
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 5%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Hacker News stories
1
best: 1 points
Funding rounds
RoundDateAmountInvestorsSource
Venture round May 2025 $23.6M — SEC Form D
Registers and programsofficial lists and records that name the company
Legal entity Fastino Inc SEC Form D
Founders and leadersfrom filings, registers and the company's site
George MaloneyExecutive Officer, DirectorSEC Form D
Ashley LewisExecutive Officer, DirectorSEC Form D
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Overview

Fastino Labs builds open language models for agentic AI, including GLiNER, GLiGuard, and the Fastino fine-tuning agent. See our research and models.

News

News fastino.ai 2 months ago
How to fine-tune open weights models: Model selection, data curation, fine-tuning strategies, and evals
An overview on how to fine-tune open-weight models, popular model options, and fine-tuning strategies. Fastino Labs
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News TechCrunch 1 year ago
Fastino trains AI models on cheap gaming GPUs and just raised $17.5M led by Khosla
Tech giants like to boast about trillion-parameter AI models that require massive and expensive GPU clusters. But Fastino is taking a different approach.
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News SiliconANGLE 2 years ago
Fastino launches with $7M to release high-performance task-optimized AI models that run on CPUs
Fastino launches with $7M to release high-performance task-optimized AI models that run on CPUs - SiliconANGLE
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We're on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.
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Tech stack

Technologies named in job postings at Fastino over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
3
Postings analysed
1
Stack modernity
85/100
Cloud & platforms
GitHub
Developer tools
Docker
Practices & domains
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People

George Maloney
Executive Officer, Director
Ashley Lewis
Executive Officer, Director
George Mathew
Director
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Growth

Hiring Momentum
28/100
Slowing
Open positions
1
0 opened / 0 closed in 30 days
ATS activity
Every ~3 hours
Today
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Sales
100% ▲

Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
2
Hiring now
1
Countries
1
Busiest office
San Francisco
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Palo Alto United States
HQ
San Francisco United States
Sales office
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 50-200 est. staff
hires for Sales
seen since Oct 2026 job postings

Financials

Total raised
$23.6M
Latest round
Venture - Series Unknown
Funding rounds
1
Funding rounds
Round Announced Amount
Venture - Series Unknown 2025 $23.6M Details