The Fastly Inc. group was created in 2011 by Artur Bergman who is the previous technical director of Wikia. In 2013 the company succeeded in raising 10 million dollars in finance from its B series. In 2014 the group acquired CDN Sumo, a content distribution network complementary module for Heroku. In the same year, the group also raised 40 million dollars more through the financing of the C series followed by a D series for 75 million dollars in August 2015.