The Mission of TOBIKO: PBC

When we created TOBIKO: a Public Benefit Corporation, we set out with a different kind of ambition — not to chase the next five-year exit plan, but to build a vision that stretches 100 years into the future. We believe that true innovation demands patience, boldness, and unwavering ideals. Venture capital timelines optimize for speed and returns; we are optimizing for legacy, for survival, and for the flourishing of humanity and nature alike.

We are at an inflection point. Technology, AI, and robotics are advancing faster than our collective ethics and foresight. Without deliberate vision, we risk awakening our children into a dystopia of our own making. TOBIKO stands for a different future — one rooted in the integrity of nature, the preservation of humanity, and the nurturing of technology not as a force of conquest, but as a symbiotic extension of life itself.

Our voyage into the stars must not be built on the ruins of our planet, or on the abandonment of our humanity. It must be a continuation of the best of us — our curiosity, our compassion, our imagination. That’s why at TOBIKO, every project we undertake, every system we design, will hold fast to the principles of harmony with nature and the continuous pursuit of better, even knowing that perfect utopia is a myth.

As a foundation for our mission, we look back to Isaac Asimov’s famous Laws of Robotics — a historic attempt to set ethical bounds on the machines we create:

  1. A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
  2. A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
  3. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.

But the future demands more. TOBIKO proposes an amendment:

  • A robot (or any system) must seek continual betterment in alignment with the preservation of humanity, the flourishing of nature, and the search for a future worth living in.

In short: not just preventing harm, but proactively seeking goodness. Not just serving humanity, but harmonizing with the ecosystems that gave rise to humanity itself.

This is the mission of TOBIKO: PBC.
A new blueprint for a future that is courageous, thoughtful, and alive.

We are just getting started.

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