Founder memo
Toyo Computing
We've seen this moment before.
In 1984, Apple introduced the Macintosh as “the computer for the rest of us.” Before that, computers required command lines. The graphical user interface introduced billions of people to computing for the first time. The rest is history.
We're at the same moment with AI.
For decades, software meant the same thing: vendors build tools, you buy licenses, you operate the system. You adapt to how someone else thinks you should work. That model is ending.
Technical early adopters are already getting massive leverage from AI agents: building custom tools, automating workflows, and completely reshaping how AI-native businesses can operate. Everyone else is stuck wondering how to go beyond a basic ChatGPT conversation. The future is already here, it's just not evenly distributed.
AI agents change what software can be: It's no longer just a tool you operate, but a system that operates for you. You describe what you need. Agents build it, run it, maintain it. You direct and decide.
We're building Toyo to bring this to everyone: an AI computer in the cloud for the 48 million businesses that don't have engineers.
Why “Toyo”?
Our team has all spent time in Japan, and we came to love a word that kept surfacing: 豊 (toyo). It appears in the Kojiki, Japan's founding chronicle from 712 CE, where the archipelago itself is described as a land of overflowing abundance. The kanji doesn't point to wealth in the narrow sense. It describes the kind of richness that nourishes: fertile harvests, deep experience, human potential.
We believe AI will create a period of shared abundance unlike anything before it. More people doing meaningful work. More businesses competing on ideas rather than headcount. More capacity for the things that matter. 豊 captures that possibility in a single character. We chose it as our name in that spirit.
Damien, Stuart & Aidan
Co-founders, Toyo
Leadership
Our investors
We're backed by world-class investors who share our vision.
