"I am a BTech student in Golaghat, Assam. I looked around and asked one question — why isn't great software being built here? I didn't find a good answer. So I stopped looking and started building."
— Aashish Verma, Founder & CEO
Aashish Verma is not the typical founder story. There was no big city startup. No venture capital pitch deck. No co-working space in Bangalore with a ping-pong table.
There is a BTech CSE student, sitting in Golaghat, Assam — studying at Birangana Sati Sadhani Rajyik Vishwavidyalaya — who looks at the digital landscape of Northeast India and feels something between frustration and determination.
The frustration? That businesses in Assam — good, hardworking, legitimate businesses — were being left behind digitally. Not because they didn't want to grow. But because the people who could help them grow weren't here.
He started Fastit Group of Solutions from Dergaon, Golaghat — while still pursuing his degree — because he understood something most people take years to figure out: The best time to solve a real problem is when you can see it clearly. And he could see it clearly.
"Northeast India had talent. It had businesses that needed digital solutions. What it didn't have was a company that combined both — with the quality and seriousness that clients actually deserved."
What makes Aashish different from most young founders isn't just the ambition — it's the approach. He built Fastit Group of Solutions on a foundation of something almost unfashionable in the startup world: Honesty.
No overpromising. No hiding behind corporate language. No making clients feel like they need a translator to understand what's happening with their project.
The academic foundation gives him depth. The real-world work gives him perspective that no classroom can fully provide. And being from Golaghat, Assam — that gives him something neither a degree nor a job can give: A reason to build something that actually matters for the place he calls home.
"Northeast India has always had brilliant people. We just needed someone to build the right stage for them. That's what Fastit is — a stage. And we're just getting started."
