Company

Our mission

Making the world sustainable with new manufacturing technologies

Elephantech is a Japanese green tech startup that has succeeded in using metal inkjet printing technology to mass produce printed circuit boards (PCBs). Our additive manufacturing technologies are essential for achieving decarbonization and biodiversity in the electronics industry and we aim to establish a sustainable industry standard by continuing to scale these technologies.

Message from the CEO

Company overview

Company name
Elephantech Inc.
Established
January 2014
Headquarters
4-3-8 Hatchobori, Chuo-ku, Tokyo 104-0032, Japan
Representative
Shinya Shimizu, Representative Director / CEO / Co-Founder
Capital
100 million JPY
Number of employees
140
Board of directors
  • Representative Director

    Shinya Shimizu

    CEO Co-Founder, Elephantech Inc.

  • Board director

    Masaaki Sugimoto

    Co-Founder, Elephantech Inc.

  • Board director

    Keisuke Ito

    CFO, Elephantech Inc.

  • External Director

    Tomihisa Kamada

    CEO, LPIXEL Inc.

  • External Director

    Kengo Ueha

    Representative Director, Beyond Next Ventures

  • External Director

    Masahiro Sameshima

    General Partner, ANRI

  • Standing audit & supervisory member

    Kazuyuki Takiguchi

    Audit & Supervisory Board member, Elephantech Inc.
    (Former Director of KPP GROUP HOLDINGS CO., LTD.)

  • External audit & supervisory member

    Hisako Takahashi

    ZeLo, a Foreign Law Joint Enterprise - Attorney at Law

  • External audit & supervisory member

    Hideyuki Hashimoto

    Outside director (Member of the Audit and Supervisory Committees) of Silver Life Co., Ltd.

Business description
Development of printed electronics manufacturing technology and provision of related services

As of August 1, 2025

Team

Board of directors

Executive officers

Company history

2014

Founded as AgIC Inc. in Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo.

2016

Initiated technical validation of flexible printed circuits (FPCs) using inkjet printing technology.

2017

Launched sales of FPC, P-Flex™, made using proprietary Pure Additive™ processing.

Renamed the company to Elephantech Inc.

2018

Relocated headquarter to Chuo-ku, Tokyo and established a small-scale demonstration line.

Launched sales of polyimide-based FPC P-Flex™ PI.*1

2019

Formed alliances with Seiko Epson Corporation and Mitsui Chemicals, Inc.

Raised a total of 1.8 billion yen in funding.

2020

Established AMC Nagoya as Pure Additive™ PCB mass production site.

2022

AMC Nagoya obtained ISO 9001 and ISO 14001 certifications.

Established Shinkiba R&D Center.

2023

Achieved 3.9 billion yen fund-raising.

2024

Achieved 3 billion yen in total funding.

Unified P-Flex™ products and Pure Additive™ technology branding under the proprietary SustainaCircuits™ brand.

Launched ELP-04: a cutting-edge inkjet printing platform for industrial PCB manufacturing.

Successfully developed general-purpose multilayer PCBs powered by SustainaCircuits™.

2025

Established new business by launching SustainaCircuits™ multilayer PCB production solutions.

Introduced world-class innovations including expanding FPC specifications to support thin- and thick-copper designs and launching 15nm copper nano filler.

  • *1PI stands for Polyimide, which is the base material for flexible substrates.

Learn about our company culture

The Elephantech way