Company: PFSA
Filing Date: 2025-07-11
Form Type: 8-A12B
Source: 0001213900-25-063105
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Company: Profusa, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-07-11
Form: 8-A12B
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 business combination between the Registrant and Profusa, Inc.,
a California corporation, on July 11, 2025, the Registrant changed its name from “NorthView Acquisition Corporation” to “Profusa,
Inc.”

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Item 1. Description of Registrant’s Securities to be Registered.

The securities to be registered
hereby are the common stock, par value $0.0001 per share, of Profusa, Inc. (the “Registrant”). The description of the common
stock set forth under the heading “Description of Securities” in the Registrant’s prospectus forming a part of its Registration
Statement on Form S-4 (File No. 333-269417), originally filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on January 25, 2023, as
thereafter amended and supplemented from time to time (the “Registration Statement”), to which this Form 8-A relates, is incorporated
by reference herein. Any form of prospectus or prospectus supplement to the Registration Statement that includes such descriptions and
that is subsequently filed is hereby also incorporated by reference herein.

Item 2. Exhibits.

Under the Instructions as
to Exhibits with respect to Form 8-A, no exhibits are required to be filed because no other securities of the Registrant are registered
on The Nasdaq Stock Market LLC and the securities registered hereby are not being registered pursuant to Section 12(g) of the Securities
Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.

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SIGNATURE</div>

Pursuant
to the requirements of Section 12 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Registrant has duly caused this registration statement to
be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereto duly authorized.

| Very truly yours, |                         |
| Profusa, Inc.     |                         |
| By:               | /s/ Fred Knechtel       |
|                   | Fred Knechtel           |
|                   | Chief Financial Officer |

Dated: July 11, 2025

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