Fastformulator Inc

What Fastformulator Inc does

FastFormulator Inc (legally FastFormulator LLC) is a Miami, Florida-based formulation intelligence company that provides AI-powered tools for predicting and optimizing the physicochemical properties of multi-ingredient formulations. The core offering is ChemNexus, a cloud-based platform composed of four virtual laboratory instruments — Virtual Viscometer, Virtual Stability Chamber, Virtual Surface Tensiometer, and Virtual Foam Analyzer — that function as digital twins of physical lab equipment and predict viscosity flow curves, colloidal stability, surface tension, and foam behavior before physical experimentation. The platform rests on chemistry-aware deep neural networks, including a molecular encoder pretrained on millions of compounds and domain-specific pretraining over thousands of systematically designed formulations following a structured design-of-experiments hierarchy covering surfactants, polymers, and multi-component mixtures, with support for customer-specific iterative fine-tuning from uploaded experimental data.

The company serves formulation R&D teams across a horizontal set of end markets — cosmetics and personal care, food and beverage, oil and gas, agrochemicals, pharmaceuticals and biopharmaceuticals, coatings and inks, and home care. Revenue is generated via enterprise SaaS subscriptions sold through a webinar-driven 'Instant Demo' sales motion with sales-assisted onboarding, supplemented by a technical content-marketing blog and channel partnerships with BASF, the NVIDIA Inception Program, and the Microsoft for Startups Program. No public pricing tiers, contract values, or named customer logos are disclosed.

Name

Fastformulator Inc

Legal name

FastFormulator LLC

Website

https://fastformulator.com

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

FastFormulator Inc offers the ChemNexus platform — AI-powered virtual laboratory instruments that predict viscosity, stability, surface tension, and foaming in multi-ingredient formulations. It serves formulation R&D teams across cosmetics, food, pharmaceuticals, oil and gas, agrochemicals, coatings, and home care industries.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

AI Formulation Software / Computational Chemistry Platform

NAICS

Analytical Laboratory Instrument Manufacturing (334516), Custom Computer Programming Services (541511), Scientific Research and Development Services (5417)

SIC

Laboratory Analytical Instruments (3826), Services-Prepackaged Software (7372)

akta.pro industry

PRIMARYHLAGAJAO

AI/ML Platforms for Drug Discovery & Experiment Optimization

Healthcare & Life Sciences/Life Science Tools & Services (CRO/CDMO/Lab Services)/Life Science Software & Informatics (LIMS/ELN/Bioinformatics)

SECONDARYHDAEANAB

Model Development & Training Platforms (AutoML, Notebooks, Feature Stores)

Hardware, Technology & Telecom/Enterprise Platforms & Databases/Artificial Intelligence Platforms for Enterprise

Keywords

• AI formulation design
• Chemistry property prediction
• Virtual lab instruments
• Formulation optimization software
• Rheology prediction platform

Headquarters

HQ city

Miami

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Personnel, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure, Operations

Revenue model

1. ChemNexus Platform Subscription: The company offers access to its ChemNexus platform, which provides virtual lab instruments for formulation prediction. The platform is sold as a subscription to enterprise R&D teams, with pricing likely tiered based on team size and feature access. The model includes fine-tuning models with proprietary customer data, suggesting a tiered or enterprise licensing structure.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

FastFormulator builds and sells the ChemNexus SaaS platform, an AI-powered formulation intelligence system that uses chemistry-aware deep neural networks to predict physicochemical properties (viscosity, stability, surface tension, foaming) of multi-ingredient formulations before physical lab experimentation. The platform delivers virtual lab instruments — Virtual Viscometer, Virtual Stability Chamber, Virtual Surface Tensiometer, and Virtual Foam Analyzer — as digital twins of laboratory equipment, plus an optimizer that searches formulation space against target property profiles. The offering is sold as an annual enterprise subscription to formulation R&D teams, with iterative fine-tuning of customer-specific models from uploaded experimental data.

Product overview

FastFormulator offers a unified AI-powered formulation intelligence platform centered on the ChemNexus software. The platform provides a suite of virtual characterization instruments (Virtual Viscometer, Virtual Stability Chamber, Virtual Tensiometer, and Virtual Foam Analyzer) that function as digital twins of laboratory equipment. These tools enable formulators to predict physicochemical properties—including viscosity, stability, surface tension, and foaming behavior—before conducting physical experiments, accelerating formulation development cycles and reducing trial-and-error experimentation.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• ChemNexus: Digital twin formulation and material characterization lab platform that provides virtual instruments for predicting rheology, stability, surface tension, and foaming behavior.

Products and services

• ChemNexus Platform

Quantifiable outcome

• Reduced experimental trial-and-error — companies can evaluate thousands of formulation candidates computationally before lab experimentation
• +3 more outcomes

Segments8 records

Ideal customer profiles5 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability6 records

Feature8 records

Partnerships

Three partnerships are on record, tiered core and supporting.

• BASFcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerFastFormulator is a proud partner with BASF, one of the world's largest chemical companies. The partnership provides FastFormulator access to BASF's formulation expertise and industry relationships in the chemicals and materials space, while FastFormulator contributes its AI-powered formulation prediction platform for joint development activities.
• NVIDIA Inception ProgramcoreTechnology or IntegrationFastFormulator is an active member of the NVIDIA Inception Program, which supports startups working on AI and GPU-accelerated computing. This partnership provides FastFormulator access to NVIDIA's technical resources, GPU compute infrastructure, and AI/ML development tools to support training and deployment of its deep learning models for formulation prediction.
• Microsoft for Startups ProgramsupportingTechnology or IntegrationFastFormulator is a member of the Microsoft for Startups Program, gaining access to Azure cloud infrastructure, development tools, and startup support resources to build and scale its SaaS platform. This supports the cloud-based delivery of the ChemNexus platform.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• Aspen Technology: Industrial process simulation, optimization, and digital twin software widely used in chemicals, oil & gas, and pharma process development. Comparable in spirit as a digital-twin, predictive modeling platform for formulation-adjacent industrial workflows, though at the process-plant level rather than the bench-formulation level.
• Dassault Systèmes BIOVIA: Established suite of formulation, materials informatics, and lab informatics products used across chemicals, pharma, and consumer goods. Directly overlaps the formulation-intelligence value proposition but as part of a much broader PLM and scientific software portfolio aimed at large enterprise customers.

Direct peers

• Schrödinger, Inc. Physics-based and AI-driven molecular simulation software (e.g., LiveDesign, MS, Materials Science suites) used by industrial formulation and materials R&D teams. Comparable as a predictive chemistry platform sold into large enterprise formulation workflows, though broader in scope (drug discovery plus materials).
• Citrine Informatics: AI platform for materials and formulation R&D that ingests experimental and process data to predict properties and accelerate formulation development. Closest direct analogue to FastFormulator's data-driven, chemistry-aware prediction approach targeting industrial R&D teams.
• ACD/Labs: Predictive chemistry and analytical data management software used by chemists in formulation, pharma, and chemicals R&D. Comparable as enterprise software that predicts and interprets physicochemical properties of molecules and mixtures in industrial R&D workflows.

Emerging players

• Chemical.AI: AI platform for chemistry R&D covering retrosynthesis, prediction, and data-driven molecule design across pharma and materials. Comparable as a domain-specialized AI-for-chemistry platform trying to displace generic LLMs in industrial chemistry workflows.
• Kebotix: AI-driven materials and chemicals discovery platform focused on using machine learning and robotic labs to design new molecules and formulations. Comparable as an emerging AI-for-materials company pursuing a similar 'predict first, then validate' workflow for industrial chemistry customers.
• CosmoLogic / CosmoTherm (Biovia-dSphera): Specialty software using COSMO-RS thermodynamic models for predicting formulation properties (miscibility, solubility, partition coefficients) in chemical, pharmaceutical, and consumer products R&D. Comparable as a niche alternative route to 'predict physicochemical properties before lab work' for multi-component formulation design.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/fastformulator

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles14 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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