Francis Medical

aid: francis-medical
name: Francis Medical
description: Francis Medical is a privately held medical device company headquartered in Maple Grove, Minnesota, founded in
  2018 by Michael Hoey and named for his father, who died of prostate cancer in 1991. It develops the Vanquish Water Vapor
  Ablation System, a transurethral outpatient platform that ablates targeted prostate tissue using the thermal energy stored
  in sterile water vapor delivered in short bursts through a catheter, with the aim of treating localized disease while avoiding
  the incontinence and sexual dysfunction associated with radical prostatectomy and radiation. The company received FDA Breakthrough
  Device Designation in 2023 and 510(k) clearance for prostate tissue ablation in December 2025, and it is running the VAPOR
  1 and VAPOR 2 clinical studies alongside a long-term registry; it has signalled intent to extend the same water vapor platform
  to bladder and kidney cancer. Francis Medical has raised roughly $160 million to date, including an $80 million Series C
  in January 2025 co-led by Solas BioVentures and Arboretum Ventures, with earlier participation from Coloplast. It is led
  by president and CEO Mike Kujak. Francis Medical publishes a physician locator, an electronic instructions-for-use (eIFU)
  library and a coordinated vulnerability disclosure policy for its devices and embedded software, but operates no public
  developer program, API documentation, or machine-readable API contract.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/francis-medical/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
image: https://www.francismedical.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Vanquish_Stacked_RGB-1.png
x-type: company
x-source: harvest:secondary-market
x-tier: profile
x-tier-reason: identity-enriched-no-api-surface
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-08-16'
modified: '2026-08-16'
tags:
- Company
- Health Care
- Medical Devices
- Oncology
- Urology
- Prostate Cancer
- Surgery
- Ablation
- Clinical Trials
- Minimally Invasive
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/francis-medical-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.francismedical.com/
- type: About
  url: https://www.francismedical.com/about/
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.francismedical.com/news/
- type: Support
  url: https://www.francismedical.com/contact/
- type: FAQ
  url: https://www.francismedical.com/faq/
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.francismedical.com/privacy-policy/
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.francismedical.com/terms-and-conditions/
- type: CookiePolicy
  url: https://www.francismedical.com/cookie-policy/
- type: Security
  url: https://www.francismedical.com/product-security/
- type: Careers
  url: https://www.francismedical.com/careers/
- type: Leadership
  url: https://www.francismedical.com/leadership/
- type: InstructionsForUse
  url: https://www.francismedical.com/emanual/
- type: Locator
  url: https://www.francismedical.com/physician-locator/
- type: Evidence
  url: https://www.francismedical.com/evidence/
- type: Reimbursement
  url: https://www.francismedical.com/reimbursement/
- type: SecondaryMarket
  url: https://www.nasdaqprivatemarket.com/
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/francis-medical
- type: Product
  url: https://www.francismedical.com/vanquish/
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/francis-medical-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/francis-medical-llms.txt
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-08-16'
  status: minimal
  artifacts_added: 4
  pass: local-v1
x-coverage:
  state: none
  reason: no-developer-program
  detail: Francis Medical's own Product Security page states that "our current product offerings do not include network-connected
    components" — the Vanquish Water Vapor Ablation System is a capital console and single-use catheter operated at the bedside,
    so there is no developer portal, no api./developer./docs./portal. hostname in DNS, and the only machine-readable JSON
    on the host is the marketing site's stock WordPress core REST API at /wp-json/.
  evidence:
  - url: https://www.francismedical.com/product-security/
    status: 200
  - url: https://www.francismedical.com/openapi.json
    status: 404
  - url: https://www.francismedical.com/swagger.json
    status: 404
  - url: https://www.francismedical.com/graphql
    status: 404
  - url: https://www.francismedical.com/llms.txt
    status: 404
  - url: https://www.francismedical.com/.well-known/agent-card.json
    status: 404
  - url: https://www.francismedical.com/.well-known/agent.json
    status: 404
  - url: https://www.francismedical.com/.well-known/security.txt
    status: 404
  - url: https://www.francismedical.com/wp-json/
    status: 200
  checked: '2026-08-16'