Butterfly Network, Inc.BFLY
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Butterfly Network, Inc. Morgan Stanley 24th Annual Global Healthcare Conference

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Speaker

All right. Perfect. Thank you everyone for joining, and I am excited to welcome the Butterfly Network team. There is a disclaimer on the Morgan Stanley website that I encourage everybody to go check out. We have a lot of questions to get through today, so I think we are going to just get started here. Joe, maybe I will start with you and give me a little bit of the strategic direction that Butterfly is headed. What is your vision for what Butterfly can become? How has that changed over the last few years, particularly as opportunities beyond the traditional point-of-care ultrasound have emerged?

Joseph DeVivoChairman and CEO

Well, first of all, thank you for having us here.

Joseph DeVivoChairman and CEO

It is really a pleasure, and I appreciate all the work that you have done. We have learned that we have built a very strong technology and patent portfolio to be the leader in semiconductor-based imaging. I think that is a new concept for us. We built our business and our platform around a semiconductor-based ultrasound device that can image the entire body at low cost, that can be used to image anywhere in the body, anywhere in the world. That is our core mission. But the concept of democratizing imaging through a semiconductor, that aperture has grown quite greatly recently. We have learned that our core technology can be leveraged for many different clinical use cases.

Joseph DeVivoChairman and CEO

Butterfly still is a company that is developing a large market in point of care, but by licensing out our tech, working with partners on new use cases, it brings shareholders into a much larger TAM.

Joseph DeVivoChairman and CEO

and a much larger opportunity. I think what we have learned is we have solved a major foundational technology problem that serves the point-of-care market, and many others. We are pulling our core technology to the center of our circle, and we are leveraging it for markets, all different types of markets, of which one of them is point-of-care ultrasound that we are developing ourselves.

Speaker

Okay, great. I think it is important for people to understand your competitive advantage and how parts of that competitive advantage actually might become even stronger as the company scales.

Joseph DeVivoChairman and CEO

Well, I really think big imaging made a mistake. Big imaging looked at semiconductor-based imaging as something that can never really go upstream.

Joseph DeVivoChairman and CEO

that can never get higher image quality, that can never challenge a lot of the core tech. And they are wrong. We are benefiting a lot of the. When I talk about the part of imaging that we are focusing on, it is not the back-end image processing and all the work that could be done. That could be done by anything. It is about being dynamic on the front end on how to capture the image and how to be dynamic about that image capture. And I think they did not think we can get to the higher levels of imaging.

Joseph DeVivoChairman and CEO

They didn't think we could accomplish harmonics, which is a major threshold of moving sound easier through the body to get that higher image. Our fourth-generation chip that will be out next year will be harmonic.

Joseph DeVivoChairman and CEO

We will have proved their hypothesis wrong, and when you think about the competitive advantage, it cost us $300 million to make our first chip. We will launch our fourth chip in early 2027, and with the best handheld imaging device on the market. Not the best device, the best imaging device.

Joseph DeVivoChairman and CEO

With 600 patents, with hundreds of millions of dollars of know-how and supply chain, with a partner with the best chip fab in the world, TSMC is our partner. Standing start, five years for someone else.

Joseph DeVivoChairman and CEO

They have to figure out how to get around 600 to 700 patents.

Speaker

You know what I think has been fascinating is you have a strong core focus franchise, but then you also have this very early-stage, but extremely promising, potentially larger opportunity with the Butterfly Embedded market. How do you think about investments across both parts of the business, and how are you thinking of prioritization in particular?

Joseph DeVivoChairman and CEO

Butterfly, to the credit of our founder, Dr. Rothberg, Butterfly was architected with a very modern architecture upfront. What do I mean by that? I've been in healthcare for 35 years, and I've run a lot of businesses in healthcare, and I've had devices that have software in them. It's actually sadly true today. If I wanted to upgrade the software on my devices in hospitals, I'm sending a rep in with a USB stick.

Joseph DeVivoChairman and CEO

Right. Right? Butterfly originally was architected to be completely cloud-based.

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