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: '0.23'
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'