Headquarters
Mountain View, CAFounded
2007CEO / Founder
John H. FarquharEmployees
201-500Funding
Public — $768MStock
HTFLProducts
1 product listedAvg. AI Score
7.6/10Website
heartflow.com/Profile updated
HeartFlow was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in Mountain View, California. The company develops software that analyzes CT scans to create personalized 3D models of a patient's coronary arteries, helping physicians assess blood flow and diagnose coronary artery disease without invasive procedures.
Its core product, the HeartFlow FFRct Analysis, is used by cardiologists and radiologists to evaluate the functional significance of arterial blockages, reducing the need for invasive angiograms in many cases. The technology has received FDA clearance and CE marking, and has been adopted by hospital systems in the United States, Europe, and Japan.
HeartFlow has raised more than $768 million in funding from investors including Wellington Management, Baillie Gifford, and Philips, among others, across multiple funding rounds. The company has expanded internationally and continues to seek broader clinical adoption and reimbursement coverage for its imaging analysis technology.
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Who Heartflow competes with, and how they differ.
The closest direct rival: Cleerly sells an AI-enabled CCTA read (Cleerly Plaque Analysis, Cleerly ISCHEMIA, Cleerly COMPARE) and markets ISCHEMIA head-to-head against FFR-CT using CREDENCE and PACIFIC trial data. Heartflow's own 10-K names Cleerly first among AI-CCTA competitors; Cleerly is still venture-backed (a $106M round from Insight Partners in December 2024), while Heartflow is Nasdaq-listed with $176.0M of 2025 revenue.
Aidoc sells a broad enterprise clinical-AI platform (aiOS) carrying the largest portfolio of FDA-cleared triage algorithms across radiology, neurovascular, vascular and cardiology, including a coronary artery disease solution. It competes for the same hospital imaging-AI budget but monetises platform-wide deployment and incidental-finding capture, not Heartflow's single CPT-reimbursed, pay-per-click diagnostic test.
1 product reviewed on TopReviewedNanox.AI (the former Zebra Medical, acquired November 2021) runs HealthCCSng, an FDA-cleared cardiac tool that mines routine chest and abdomen CT scans to flag patients at high risk of coronary artery disease. That is opportunistic population screening on scans already taken, whereas Heartflow analyses a dedicated coronary CT angiogram to return an FFR-CT and plaque report; Nanox also sells imaging hardware, which Heartflow does not.
Viz.ai is an AI care-coordination platform layered on hospital imaging, with a Cardio Suite covering hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, acute coronary syndrome and cardiac amyloidosis alongside its neuro and vascular suites. It overlaps with Heartflow on the cardiology AI budget and CT ingest, but sells acute detection and care-team activation rather than a reimbursed CCTA-derived diagnostic analysis.
1 product reviewed on TopReviewedKey milestones in Heartflow's history, with sources.
Category I CPT code takes effect for Heartflow Plaque Analysis
Category I CPT code 75577 for Heartflow Plaque Analysis took effect in January 2026, and by that month all seven Medicare Administrative Contractors covered the analysis; commercial payers including Aetna, Cigna and UnitedHealthcare began coverage from October 2025. Heartflow FFR-CT Analysis has had its own Category I code, 75580, since January 1, 2024.
sec.govNasdaq IPO closes -- $364M gross at $19.00 per share
Heartflow priced an upsized IPO at $19.00 per share on August 7, 2025 and closed on August 11, 2025, selling 19,166,667 shares including the full 2,500,000-share underwriters option for roughly $364 million gross and about $333.0 million net. Shares trade on the Nasdaq Global Select Market as HTFL; J.P. Morgan, Morgan Stanley, Piper Sandler, Stifel and Canaccord Genuity ran the books. The Hayfin credit facility was repaid in full on August 22, 2025.
sec.govPre-IPO convertible notes -- $98.3M
In January and March 2025 Heartflow issued $98.3 million in aggregate principal of convertible notes: $74.0 million in cash, $1.3 million issued to employees in lieu of cash compensation and $23.0 million exchanged out of the Hayfin term loan. The notes carried a $2.0 billion pre-money valuation cap and converted to common stock at the $19.00 IPO price.
sec.govSeries F -- $215.9M led by Bain Capital Life Sciences
HeartFlow sold 61,344,029 Series F shares at $2.8505 for $174.9 million in cash and converted $40.0 million of 2022 convertible notes into 21,465,064 Series F-1 shares at $1.9098, a 33% discount. BCLS Fund III Investments (Bain Capital Life Sciences) put in $100.0 million. The SEC Form D reports $215,855,148 sold with a first sale on March 2, 2023. Anti-dilution protection for Series B-1 through E triggered a $26.8 million deemed dividend, confirming the round was a down round.
sec.govFDA clearance for Heartflow Plaque Analysis and RoadMap Analysis
Heartflow Platform version 3.18, adding the Plaque and RoadMap functions, received FDA 510(k) clearance in October 2022. Plaque Analysis became the second commercial product alongside FFR-CT; limited market education began in the second half of 2023.
sec.govLongview SPAC merger terminated
Longview Acquisition Corp. II, HeartFlow and the merger subsidiary signed a Termination of the Business Combination Agreement on February 4, 2022, mutually cancelling the July 2021 deal. HeartFlow remained private for another three and a half years.
sec.govSPAC merger with Longview Acquisition Corp. II announced at $2.4B
HeartFlow Holding agreed to combine with Longview Acquisition Corp. II (NYSE: LGV), a SPAC sponsored by affiliates of Glenview Capital Management, at an approximate $2.4 billion pro forma enterprise value with an estimated $400 million of cash at closing. The combined company was to be renamed HeartFlow Group, Inc. and listed on the NYSE under the symbol HFLO.
sec.govSeries E extended by $65.0M at $25.33 per share
HeartFlow issued 2,565,953 additional Series E preferred shares at $25.33 per share for $64.9 million net of issuance costs. Series E ultimately totalled 12,040,980 shares with a $305.0 million liquidation value, making it the largest of the company private rounds before Series F.
sec.govPrivate placement -- $90.0M sold toward a $150.0M equity offering
A Form D filed with the SEC on December 4, 2017 reports a first sale on November 20, 2017 and $90.0 million sold against a $150.0 million equity offering by Heartflow, Inc.
sec.govFDA De Novo authorization for HeartFlow FFR-CT Analysis
The FDA granted De Novo marketing authorization on November 26, 2014 for version 1.4 of the HeartFlow FFR-CT Analysis, supported by the NXT clinical trial. The decision created a new Class II device classification for CT-derived fractional flow reserve; a 510(k) for version 2.x followed in January 2015.
sec.govCE Mark awarded for HeartFlow FFR-CT Analysis
The company was awarded the Conformite Europeenne (CE) Mark for its HeartFlow FFR-CT Analysis in July 2011 -- its first regulatory authorization anywhere and the basis for European commercialization.
sec.govIncorporated in Delaware as Cardiovascular Simulation, Inc.
Stanford bioengineering professor Charles A. Taylor co-founded the company, incorporated in Delaware in July 2007 as Cardiovascular Simulation, Inc. and renamed HeartFlow, Inc. in May 2009. Taylor joined the board in July 2007, served as Chief Technology Officer from April 2010 to February 2022 and as Chief Scientific Officer through December 2023.
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