We Are a Startup. Nothing Is Live Yet. Here Is What We Are Actually Doing.
An honest note from the team behind robotaxi.tokyo. No product is live, no fleet is running, no tickets are being sold. We are assembling a founding group to build the neutral ticketing layer for Tokyo's autonomous mobility market — and we are looking for the right partners, operators, and investors to do it with us.
A quick, honest reset. Everything else on this blog is analysis, thesis, and market framing. This post is different. It is about who we actually are today and what stage we are actually at.
We are a very early-stage group. There is no live product. There is no fleet. There is no ticket being sold anywhere on this site. Anything on the rest of the blog that reads like a working service is a description of what the market will need — not something that exists yet.
What actually exists today
Three things exist right now: the domain robotaxi.tokyo, a thesis about why a neutral booking and micro-payment layer is the missing piece of Tokyo's autonomous rollout, and a small group of people beginning to have the conversations that turn that thesis into a company.
That is it. We would rather say that clearly than dress it up.
What we are trying to do
Assemble a founding circle — operators, investors, ex-mobility people, ex-payments people, Tokyo locals — and use the Wayve, Nissan, Uber, Waymo, and domestic operator activity as the market window to build the consumer surface underneath them.
The pitch is straightforward. Vehicle operators own the vehicles. A neutral layer owns the ticket, the identity, the language, and the receipt. Both sides win. We think Tokyo is where that split gets defined first, and we want to be the group that defines it.
Who we want to hear from
Angels and seed funds who invest ahead of product. Mobility and payments operators who have shipped in Japan. Tokyo-based founders and advisors who know the ward-by-ward regulatory reality. Corporates, tour operators, and hospitality groups who want early input into what the ticketing layer looks like. And the eventual acquirer of the domain itself, if the right partnership shape emerges before the company does.
How to reach us
The homepage funnel is the fastest route in — three short steps, optional NDA, direct to us. Or email andrew.mc@nousdomains.com. Either way, we will reply personally, tell you exactly where we are, and share the roadmap under NDA when it makes sense.
This is day zero. Coming in now is different from coming in in twelve months. That is the whole invitation.
Sources & references
Primary material, official filings, and operator publications referenced while researching this article.
- IANA Root Zone Database (TLD registry)www.iana.org/domains/root/db
- Google Search Central documentationdevelopers.google.com/search/docs
- Japan Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (MLIT)www.mlit.go.jp/en/
Strategic Asset
robotaxi.tokyo is open for acquisition or seed partnership.
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