# FAST — by GETTYLAB

> FAST — by GETTYLAB is a VC fund backing Software and Artificial Intelligence. See 108 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 108
- Last investment: Jun 2025
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/company/f-st
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/f_st
- Website: https://FAST.xyz

FAST — by GETTYLAB is a venture capital investment firm backing engineers building awe, wonder, speed

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $500k–$7.6M |
| Pre-Seed | $125k–$2.3M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 32 | 30% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 21 | 19% |
| Health Care | 18 | 17% |
| Biotechnology | 18 | 17% |
| Information Technology | 11 | 10% |

139 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Pre-Seed | 65 | 60% |
| Seed | 18 | 17% |
| Funding Round | 7 | 6% |
| Series A | 6 | 6% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 3 | 3% |

8 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 67 | 62% |
| United Kingdom | 5 | 5% |
| France | 3 | 3% |
| Israel | 3 | 3% |
| Germany | 3 | 3% |

11 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Aniq Kassam | Managing Director and Co-Founder | 162 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aniq |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Integrated Reasoning | Integrated Reasoning builds computer hardware to efficiently solve optimization problems. We're making it faster and cheaper to solve problems like scheduling airline pilots or packing boxes into trucks. | $1.9M | Seed | Jun 17, 2025 |  |
| Modelwise | Modelwise is a Munich-based industrial tech company that leverages AI to automate safety engineering. Their engineering software streamlines safety analysis, saving engineers valuable time and improving analysis quality. With their innovative technology, Modelwise enables engineers to design better products faster. | $2.2M | Seed | Apr 17, 2023 |  |
| Fluent Metal | Fluent Metal is a company that makes metal 3D printing economical, efficient, and safe. | $2.3M | Pre-Seed | Dec 14, 2022 |  |
| Yakoa | Yakoa is a NFT Fraud Detection Network. | $4.8M | Seed | Nov 15, 2022 |  |
| Redbird | Redbird is an AI-powered workflow automation platform for business teams. Easily automate, edit, and rerun your most difficult workflows through conversational AI. Redbird's AI agents connect your data sources, run your workflows, and deliver the output your team needs — all through a simple conversational interface. No code required. Noengineering bottleneck. | $7.6M | Seed | Oct 12, 2022 |  |
| Civ Robotics | Civdrone is a construction tech startup aiming to revolutionize land surveying. Thanks to their robotic mechanism, marking points has never been so fast, simple and reliable. Civdrone is using a custom-made staking mechanism controlled by autopilot algorithm and data management software. | $5M | Seed | Sep 21, 2022 |  |
| Vienna Hypertext | Information Company |  | Seed | Sep 16, 2022 |  |
| Aqua Voice | Aqua is a voice-controlled text editor. It employs a fusion Audio+LLM architecture to transcribe what you meant rather than exactly what you said. | $2.3M | Seed | Sep 16, 2022 |  |
| Integrated Reasoning | Integrated Reasoning builds computer hardware to efficiently solve optimization problems. We're making it faster and cheaper to solve problems like scheduling airline pilots or packing boxes into trucks. |  | Pre-Seed | Aug 21, 2022 |  |
| Integrated Reasoning | Integrated Reasoning builds computer hardware to efficiently solve optimization problems. We're making it faster and cheaper to solve problems like scheduling airline pilots or packing boxes into trucks. | $500K | Pre-Seed | Jul 07, 2022 |  |

10 of 108 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [PROTOCOL — by GETTYLAB](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/prtcl) — VC Fund, 46 deals together
- [Y Combinator](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/y-combinator) — VC Fund, 38 deals together
- [SBXi](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sbxi) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [77](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/77) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Liquid 2 Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/liquid2-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Fifty Years](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fifty-years) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does FAST — by GETTYLAB invest in?

FAST — by GETTYLAB invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and Health Care startups, most often at Pre-Seed and Seed stage. Most of the 108 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is FAST — by GETTYLAB's check size?

FAST — by GETTYLAB typically joins rounds of $500k–$7.6M at Seed and $125k–$2.3M at Pre-Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds FAST — by GETTYLAB participates in.

### How do I contact FAST — by GETTYLAB?

Public channels for FAST — by GETTYLAB include LinkedIn, X (Twitter) and the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### Who are the partners at FAST — by GETTYLAB?

The team at FAST — by GETTYLAB includes Aniq Kassam (Managing Director and Co-Founder). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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