{"entity":{"id":"butterfly-network","kind":"company","name":"Butterfly Network","aka":["Butterfly iQ","Butterfly iQ+","Butterfly iQ3"],"tldr":"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.","asOf":"2026-09-17","links":[{"label":"Official website","url":"https://www.butterflynetwork.com"}],"tags":[],"related":[],"cancers":["breast-cancer","thyroid","hcc"],"sections":[],"technologies":["hand-held-ultrasound","ultrasound","global-oncology-access"],"targets":[],"drugs":[],"companies":[],"institutions":[],"pathways":[],"terms":[],"trials":[],"people":[],"bottlenecks":[],"keyPapers":[],"journals":[],"dependsOn":[],"notes":[],"hq":"Burlington, Massachusetts, United States","country":"US","companyType":"devices","website":"https://www.butterflynetwork.com","ticker":"BFLY","founded":2011,"stage":"public","investors":[],"funding":[]},"route":"/companies/butterfly-network/","neighbours":{"cancer":[{"id":"breast-cancer","kind":"cancer","name":"Breast cancer (all types)","route":"/cancers/breast-cancer/"},{"id":"hcc","kind":"cancer","name":"Hepatocellular carcinoma","route":"/cancers/hcc/"},{"id":"thyroid","kind":"cancer","name":"Thyroid cancer","route":"/cancers/thyroid/"}],"technology":[{"id":"global-oncology-access","kind":"technology","name":"Global oncology and access in low- and middle-income countries","route":"/technologies/global-oncology-access/"},{"id":"hand-held-ultrasound","kind":"technology","name":"Hand-held and point-of-care ultrasound","route":"/technologies/hand-held-ultrasound/"},{"id":"ultrasound","kind":"technology","name":"Ultrasound","route":"/technologies/ultrasound/"}]}}