A deep-tech material science company building next-generation systems for performance and colour without hidden toxic chemistries.
Our story
Amphico was founded in 2018 by multidisciplinary designer, scientist and entrepreneur Jun Kamei, whose polymer research at the Royal College of Art led to the invention of Amphigill, an artificial gill designed to capture oxygen directly from water.
From this foundation came Amphitex™, a PFAS free membrane platform engineered from first principles, and Amphicolor™, a predictive colour intelligence platform that delivers greater flexibility within waterless colour.
Based at Somerset House in London, with manufacturing partners across Japan and the EU, Amphico translate material science breakthroughs into production ready systems for industrial scale adoption.
Why Performance and Colour, Why Now
Performance protection has relied on PFAS forever chemicals for decades. With regulations tightening globally, most alternatives compromise comfort, durability, or recyclability. Amphitex™ eliminates that trade-off.
Colouring remains one of the most water- and chemical-intensive stages in textile manufacturing. Waterless solutions exist, but limited flexibility and high upfront commitment have slowed adoption. Amphicolor™ removes the barriers to waterless colour adoption.
CEO & Founder
Jun Kamei
CTO
Dr Louise Anderson
Senior Textile Designer
Isabella MacKenzie
Senior Design Engineer
Fergus Telfer
Senior Materials Scientist
Dr Aristeidis Tsiamis
R&D Coordinator
Haruka Kakuda-Sanins
Materials Scientist
Dr Marco Binelli
Principal Machine Learning Engineer
Dr Jordi Ferrer Orri
Senior Machine Learning Engineer
Dr Peihua Lai
Sir Jony Ive
Former Chief of Design, Apple Inc. Business Mentor
Hideshi Hamaguchi
CEO, Monogoto Inc.
Dr Nadia Danhash
Director of InnovationRCA Business Advisor
Prof Stephen Russell
Director of Future Fashion Factory, University of Leeds Technical Advisor
Anne Toomey
Head of Programme Textiles, Royal College of Art Advisor
Irene Maffini
Sustainable VC Advisor, PDS Limited Angel Investor and Advisor
Prof Stephen Westland
Professor of Colour Science and Technology, University of Leeds
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