Company Profile

Company Name	ELSA Japan Inc.
Board of Members	Chief Executive Officer Kazuyoshi Naito
Operating Officer	Chief Operating Officer Kazuyoshi Naito Operating Officer Singo Hashikawa
Tokyo Office	MitaUT Bldg., 3-42-10, Shiba, Minato-ku, Tokyo, 105-0014 Japan
Osaka Office	Shin-Osaka Dai-ichi Seimei Bldg. 7F, Miyahara, Yodogawa-ku, Osaka-shi, Osaka, 532-0003 Japan
ELSA Physical AI Lab	Room 321, UEC Alliance Center 1-1-1 Kojimacho, Chofu-shi Tokyo 182-0026 JAPAN
Founded	Dec 26, 1997
Capital	60 million yen
Business	Development, sales, and after-sales support for computers and related products. Development, sales, and after-sales support for XR and visualization-related products. Development, sales, and after-sales support for AI and robotics-related products.
Obtained certification
Qualified Invoicing Businesses Registration No.	T5010401035192 (Search as here / Japanese language only)
Member Organizations, Societies	Information Processing Society of Japan The Robotics Society od Japan The Japan Society for Computational Engineering and Science VCCI Council The Virtual Reality Society of Japan GFF

Fundamental Principle

To contribute to industrial development and a higher standard of living by providing abundant value centered in multimedia, the core of computer graphics

Credo

• To exist harmoniously with, and become a company trusted by, society
• To tirelessly pursue creation and innovation in engineering technology and lead the industry with wisdom
• To anticipate change and strive to effect it ourselves with a constant eye on moving forward
• To become a company of abundant vitality, developing and making the most of people

History

Dec. 1997	ELSA JAPAN Inc. was established. Launched sales of graphics boards for workstations.
Nov. 1998	Began OEM supply of workstation graphics boards to NEC Corporation.
Feb. 1999	Began sales of graphics boards for consumers.
Jul. 2002	Began sales of EX-VISION, an in-house developed TV tuner for PCs.
2003	Achieved the top market share for both professional and consumer graphics products.
2004	Entered the broadcasting equipment market in partnership with NEC Corporation. Began OEM business with Hewlett-Packard Japan, Ltd. for graphics and TV tuner products.
2006	Collaborated with Silicon Graphics Japan, Ltd. to begin sales of NVIDIA Quadro PLEX for the visualization market. Signed a distribution agreement with AGEIA Technologies, Inc. (USA) and launched products featuring the AGEIA PhysX™ processor.
2007	Began handling NVIDIA TESLA products for the HPC market. Obtained ISO 9001:2000 certification (Certificate Registration Number 04414).
2011	Acquired the CS Division of TCB Technologies Co., Ltd. and began distribution of InfiniBand products
2012	Signed a distributor agreement with Super Micro Computer, Inc. (USA) and began sales of GPU servers and workstation products.
2013	Signed a distributor agreement with Scalable Display Technologies, Inc. (USA) and began sales of GPU-based projector warping and blending software.
Oct. 2014	Signed a distributor agreement with 7thSense Design Ltd. (UK) and began sales of uncompressed media servers.
2015	Signed a distributor agreement with Datapath Ltd. (UK) and began sales of video wall controller products.
2017	Obtained ISO 9001:2015 certification (Certificate Registration Number 04414) Celebrated its 20th anniversary in December.
Dec. 2017	Celebrated its 20th anniversary in December.
Jun. 2019	Signed a distributor agreement with Varjo Technologies Oy (Finland) and began sales of industrial high-resolution HMDs.
Jul. 2019	Signed a distributor agreement with H3 Platform Inc. (Taiwan) and began sales of composable PCIe Gen 4 expansion boxes.
Oct. 2019	Launched “ELSA VELUGA”, an in-house proprietary workstation series.
2020	Signed a distributor agreement with GigaIO, Inc. (USA) and began sales of PCI Express Gen 4 Software-Defined Infrastructure (SDI) products.
Nov. 2021	Released a collaboration PC with “Houshou Marine,” supervised by Cover Corporation.
Jul. 2022	Released collaboration PCs with “NieR Replicant ver.1.22” and “NieR:Automata,” supervised by Square Enix.
2023	Began handling NEC Corporation’s compact box-type controllers and 24-hour monitoring solutions.
Nov. 2023	Signed a distributor agreement with DEEP Robotics (China) and began sales of autonomous quadruped robots.
2023	Signed a distributor agreement with AgileX Robotics (China) and began sales of AGVs and UGVs.
Jan. 2024	Released a collaboration PC with “FINAL FANTASY XIV,” supervised by Square Enix.
Apr. 2024	Joined the CXL Consortium and began handling CXL-compliant products.
May. 2024	Released a collaboration PC with “Hatsune Miku,” supervised by Crypton Future Media.
2024	Signed distributor agreements with MANUS Technology Group (Netherlands) and Antilatency (Cyprus), and began sales of their products.
2025	Opened the ELSA Physical AI Lab at the UEC Alliance Center.
2025	Signed distributor agreements with INSPIRE-Robots (China) and Alt-BIONICS (USA), and began sales of their products.
2026	Signed distributor agreements with Linkerbot (China) and OLO Robotics (UK), and began sales of their products.
Dec. 2027	Celebrated the 30th anniversary of establishment.

Access

Tokyo Head Office Map

Location

4th floor, MitaUT Bldg., 3-42-10, Shiba, Minato-ku, Tokyo, 105-0014 Japan

Access

• 11-minute walk from JR Tamachi Station(west gate).
• 10-minute walk from Mita Station(A8 gate) on the Toei Mita Line.
• 11-minute walk from Mita Station(A3 gate) on the Toei Asakusa Line.
• 10-minute walk from Akabanebashi Station(akabanebashi gate) on the Toei Oedo Line.

ELSA Physical AI Lab

Location

Room 321, UEC Alliance Center, 1-1-1 Kojimacho, Chofu-shi, Tokyo 182-0026, Japan

Access

• 11-minute walk from Chofu Station(Hiroba Exit) on the Keio Line.

Osaka Office Map

Location

Shin-Osaka Dai-ichi Seimei Bldg. 7F, Miyahara, Yodogawa-ku, Osaka-shi, Osaka, 532-0003 Japan

Access

• 10-minute walk from JR Shin Osaka Station.
• 7-minute walk from Shin Osaka Station on the Midosuji Line of the municipal subway system.