Fu di g, custome adoptio , a d ew CEO Scott Joh sto accele ate Fly.io’s visio fo i f ast uctu e pu pose-built fo AI age ts a d the applicatio s they build
SAN FRANCISCO, July 24, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — AI age ts a e t a sfo mi g how softwa e is built a d deployed. Fo ea ly a decade, Fly.io has helped develope s build a d u softwa e. Now, as age ts i c easi gly build, ope ate, a d deploy softwa e alo gside people, Fly.io ecog izes that AI age ts equi e a fu dame tally diffe e t ki d of i f ast uctu e tha the disposable executio e vi o me ts that defi ed the fi st wave of AI.
Fly.io is doubli g dow o compute s fo age ts — co ected i f ast uctu e desig ed fo AI age ts a d the applicatio s they build. Fly.io gives age ts eal compute s that have du able disk d ives, secu e co ectivity to othe systems, a d the ability to scale to millio s of i sta ces to powe p oductio AI applicatio s.
Fly.io just closed its st o gest qua te i compa y histo y, d ive almost e ti ely by age t wo kloads. Mo e tha 37,000 custome s build o Fly.io, a d mo e tha 8,000 of them a e age t- ative. Ove the past 12 mo ths, eve ue f om the compa y’s la gest age t- ative custome s has g ow ea ly 12 times. Amo g the compa y’s la gest custome s ove all, age t- ative compa ies ow ep ese t app oximately two-thi ds of eve ue. Age t-fi st compa ies like Fi ec awl, Kilocode, a d Plastic Labs use Fly.io to build p oductio AI applicatio s that u co ti uously a d pe fo m eal wo k.
To accele ate this oppo tu ity, Fly.io also a ou ced $25 millio i Se ies D fu di g co-led by Dell Tech ologies Capital a d I tel Capital, with pa ticipatio f om A d eesse Ho owitz, EQT, Geodesic, a d YC. Ma ti Casado, ge e al pa t e at A d eesse Ho owitz, a d Da iel Docte , ma agi g di ecto at Dell Tech ologies Capital, will joi the compa y’s boa d of di ecto s. The i vestme t will accele ate Fly.io’s leade ship i compute s fo age ts as o ga izatio s i c easi gly build a d deploy p oductio age tic AI applicatio s.
Fly.io also a ou ced that Scott Joh sto has joi ed as CEO a d a membe of the boa d. Joh sto p eviously se ved as CEO of Docke a d held leade ship oles at Puppet, Loudcloud, a d Netscape, helpi g scale i f ast uctu e platfo ms th ough majo shifts i softwa e developme t. Fou de Ku t Mackey will emai o Fly.io’s boa d a d t a sitio to a adviso y ole, co ti ui g to help shape the compa y’s lo g-te m tech ical visio .
“We evaluated a umbe of platfo ms fo u i g age ts, but Fly was the o ly o e that t eated lo g- u i g, stateful compute as a fi st-class p imitive athe tha somethi g bolted o ,” said Moi Nadeem, co-fou de of Pho ic. “Bei g able to u age t e vi o me ts close to data a d i fe e ce is exactly the fou datio ou p oduct depe ds o . Fly is buildi g the executio laye the age t ecosystem actually eeds, a d that’s why we’ e betti g o them.”
“Eve y wave of i f ast uctu e is defi ed by who its p ima y use is, a d fo the fi st time that use is ‘t ecessa ily a pe so . That cha ges what a compute has to look like,” said Ma ti Casado, ge e al pa t e at A d eesse Ho owitz. “Fly has spe t yea s buildi g i f ast uctu e fo that shift a d is givi g age ts eal compute s i stead of disposable sa dboxes. We believed i that path ea ly, a d we thi k Fly is the platfo m o which this gets built.”
“Eve y platfo m shift looks obvious i hi dsight a d co tested i the mome t — a d havi g see a few up close, this has the same shape. Age ts — the ew i te face fo people — eed eal compute s of thei ow . Whoeve gets that i f ast uctu e ight will defi e the ext decade of computi g,” said Scott Joh sto , CEO of Fly.io. “Fly has bee buildi g towa d this fo yea s, a d I joi ed to help build the catego y a d scale the compa y d ivi g it.”
“Whe we sta ted Fly.io, we felt devs should ’t have to choose betwee i f a that was powe ful a d a setup that was easy to use. That’s the easo we built softwa e that feels like eal compute s,” said Ku t Mackey, fou de of Fly.io. “The ise of AI age ts just mea s we eed powe ful, easy i f a eve mo e tha we did befo e, a d we’ e goi g to eed se ious focus a d speed to get the e. Scott is the ight pe so to make that happe .”
