Toyo AI has raised a $4.3 million seed round to build what it calls an agent-native platform for business operations—one where AI agents execute real work rather than simply assist.
The round was led by Frontline Ventures, with participation from iNovia Capital, Tiny Supercomputer, and angels from Amazon, Microsoft, and Cloudflare.
Instead of adding another AI chatbot to a crowded SaaS stack, Toyo gives founders AI agents that operate inside a secure cloud environment. The agents can browse the web, connect to business tools, and carry out tasks such as researching prospects, drafting outreach, analyzing performance metrics, and proposing website updates.
Founders brief agents like team members, review outputs, and approve key actions. Agents send text messages when decisions are required, reducing dashboard fatigue and notification overload.
The company argues that while technical founders are already experimenting with custom agent workflows, those approaches require developer skills and expose sensitive data. Toyo aims to provide similar capabilities to non-technical operators running companies with fewer than 100 employees.
Security is central to the model. Built on Cloudflare infrastructure, each agent operates in an isolated environment. According to the company, data remains within the founder’s environment rather than being pooled centrally.
“AI agents demand unique infrastructure that traditional cloud architectures aren't built for,” said Dane Knecht, CTO at Cloudflare.
Toyo was founded by Damien Tanner, Stuart Bowness, and Aidan Hornsby—repeat entrepreneurs with multiple exits, including Pusher (acquired by MessageBird), MediaCore (acquired by Workday), and Supercast (acquired by Fox Corporation).
The team originally set out to build a voice AI product but pivoted after using AI agents internally to run their own operations.
Frontline Ventures partner Zoe Chambers said the firm backed Toyo because advanced AI workflows remain largely confined to technical teams.
“The most powerful AI capabilities today are only accessible to technical early adopters,” Chambers said. “Toyo is closing that gap.”
Toyo is currently working with a small group of design partners and has opened a waitlist at toyo.ai.