# Butterfly Network

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## TL;DR

The company that put a whole-body ultrasound probe on a silicon chip, sold for a few thousand dollars with a phone as the screen, and shipped thousands to clinics in Africa and to bedside clinicians worldwide.

## Summary

Butterfly Network was founded in 2011 by Jonathan Rothberg to replace the piezoelectric crystals of conventional ultrasound with capacitive micromachined ultrasonic transducers on a semiconductor chip. Its first product, the Butterfly iQ, was cleared by the FDA in 2017 as a single hand-held probe covering the whole body, connected to a smartphone or tablet with cloud storage and tele-guidance software. The company listed on the New York Stock Exchange in 2021 through a merger with a special purpose acquisition company. It sells to hospitals, medical schools and primary care and, with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, deployed probes across sub-Saharan Africa for maternal health, where the same devices serve cancer clinics for breast, thyroid and liver assessment.

## Fields

- Kind: Company
- Last checked: 2026-09-17
- Also known as: Butterfly iQ; Butterfly iQ+; Butterfly iQ3
- HQ: Burlington, Massachusetts, United States
- Type: devices
- Website: https://www.butterflynetwork.com
- Ticker: BFLY

## Sources

- Official website: https://www.butterflynetwork.com

## Connected records

- cancers: [Breast cancer (all types)](https://onco.cc/cancers/breast-cancer/), [Hepatocellular carcinoma](https://onco.cc/cancers/hcc/), [Thyroid cancer](https://onco.cc/cancers/thyroid/)
- technologies: [Global oncology and access in low- and middle-income countries](https://onco.cc/technologies/global-oncology-access/), [Hand-held and point-of-care ultrasound](https://onco.cc/technologies/hand-held-ultrasound/), [Ultrasound](https://onco.cc/technologies/ultrasound/)

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