Situated on the far northwest corner of Wisconsin, Superior is not a town commonly recognized as an innovation hub.
Coy Christmas, founder and CEO of Fasetto, is hoping to change this thinking, which he adamantly asserts is a misconception.
“There is quite a bit of innovation up here,” Christmas said. “You’ve got a good, solid blue-collar core here.”
And Christmas said he wants to be a part of that innovative spirit with his company, which was founded in 2013 after discovering deficiencies in the region — which shares many of the same struggles with other corners of the U.S. with smaller populations. Fesetto is a hardware and software company building an agnostic operating system.
“There’s a real lack of connectivity here. It’s been a need,” Christmas said, pointing out telecommunications and wireless providers have sacrificed bandwidth in the regions for more urban, populous parts of the country.
When Fasetto’s roots were first planted five years ago, Christmas said it was based in large part on the discovered need for more technology within the community as the societal ecosystem was transforming.
In the years since, Fasetto has launched in-house hardware and software solutions Christmas said are aimed at closing connective gaps.
While grander visions lie on the horizon, Fasetto this summer achieved the necessary funding via Indiegogo for Forum. The company is touting it as an all-in-one presentation-sharing device specifically tailored to conducting meetings.
Christmas said the pocket-sized Forum device is meant to eradicate any of the technical issues that could crop up while conducting a business meeting. The device, he said, also eliminates the need for multiple, oftentimes-larger size devices — such as projectors.
Anyone attending a meeting using Fasetto’s Forum has the opportunity to tap into the chosen infrastructure through a chosen Wi-Fi enabled device, Christmas said.
The intent, Christmas said, is to use Forum as a prelude to the company’s next big innovation: its own custom agnostic Gravity operating system, dubbed Link.
Described in company marketing materials as “the ultra-portable computer built for the connected age,” Christmas said he believes it will have a transformative effect.
“What we’re bringing to the table is really going to shake up the game,” Christmas said.
Based on a timeline set in motion, Christmas said Fasetto intends to launch its developer kit for the Gravy OS in mid- to late-2019.
From there, Christmas said he believes the sky is the limit for his still burgeoning company.
“I’m a very bold person, and an aggressive individual,” he said. “I like to dream big.”
