# Francis Medical

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/francis-medical/  
**Website:** https://www.francismedical.com/  
**APIs profiled:** 0

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.

## Kin Score — 13.7 / 100 (emerging)

Scored 2026-08-19 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (-0.8 from 14.5).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 57.4 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 10.5 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 7.1 |
| Commercial Clarity | 21.1 |
| Access Clarity | 21.1 |

Regulatory layer — **Health**: 25.0 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 0.0 (human-only)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Security (2)

- **Francis Medical Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · DMARC
- **Francis Medical Vulnerability Disclosure** — disclosure policy published

## Tags

Company, Health Care, Medical Devices, Oncology, Urology, Prostate Cancer, Surgery, Ablation, Clinical Trials, Minimally Invasive

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/francis-medical/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.