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LuxCreo
LuxCreo is a digital manufacturing company turning dental clinics and labs into same-day production floors. Its patented LEAP (Light Enabled Additive Production) printers, ActiveMemory polymers, and LuxFlow software combine to deliver FDA-cleared, directly 3D-printed clear aligners, night guards, dentures and crowns - cutting weeks of traditional workflow down to hours.
Bright Now! Dental
Bright Now! Dental is one of the largest affordable dental care brands in the United States, operating a network of roughly 160 affiliated offices across about a dozen states. Backed by parent company Smile Brands Inc., it offers general dentistry, orthodontics, cosmetic care, implants, clear aligners and emergency services, with evening and weekend hours, financing options and an in-house OneSmile discount plan designed to make routine and specialty dentistry accessible to families who might otherwise skip the dentist.
Impress
Impress is a Barcelona-based orthodontic company building Europe's largest chain of clear-aligner clinics. Founded in 2019, it pairs in-clinic, orthodontist-led treatment with AI-driven planning and remote digital monitoring to make discreet teeth straightening faster, more convenient, and more affordable. After acquiring DrSmile in 2024, Impress operates over 110 clinics across roughly ten countries in Europe and the United States.
Kjeld Aamodt
Kjeld Aamodt is a UCSF-trained orthodontist who turned a faculty research interest into a transcontinental clear-aligner company. He founded Uniform Teeth in San Francisco in 2018, merged it with Barcelona-based Impress in 2022, and now serves as co-founder and CEO of Impress US while continuing to teach at UCSF.
Nichole Garcia
Nichole Garcia is Co-Founder and President of OrthoFX, the doctor-delivered clear aligner startup she built with two former Invisalign executives. With a BS in Biochemistry from UCLA, an MBA from Pepperdine, and a diploma from Oxford, she spent two decades running global divisions at Philips Oral Care and Align Technology before co-founding OrthoFX in 2017. The company raised $17M total - including a $13M Series A led by SignalFire in 2020 - to commercialize a proprietary FXTetra polymer that delivers 50% faster treatment, paired with an AI-powered remote monitoring platform called FXOnTrack.
Ren Menon
Ren Menon is the cofounder and CEO of OrthoFX, a Fremont-based dental technology company reinventing clear aligner therapy. A former Invisalign executive with over two decades in the clear aligner space, Menon launched OrthoFX in 2019 with co-founders from Align Technology and Philips Oral Care to offer doctor-delivered, AI-monitored clear aligners at roughly half the cost of Invisalign. The company has raised $17 million across three rounds - most recently a $13M Series A led by SignalFire - and has developed proprietary polymer technology including its HyperElastic FXTetra material and the FDA-cleared AirFlex aligner system. OrthoFX operates a hybrid D2C/B2B model, combining direct consumer access with professional orthodontist delivery, underpinned by the FXOnTrack AI platform for remote patient monitoring.
OrthoFX
OrthoFX is a Fremont, California clear-aligner company building the next generation of orthodontic care - shorter-wear NiTime aligners made of a proprietary HyperElastic polymer, paired with FXOnTrack, an AI platform that lets doctors monitor patients remotely. Founded by Invisalign veterans, it is a hybrid B2B/D2C model designed to make straight teeth predictable, affordable, and a lot less tedious.
Mike Yang
Mike Yang is the co-founder and CEO of LuxCreo, the company behind the world's first FDA Class II 510(k)-cleared direct-print clear aligner. A Harvard PhD and Wharton MBA, Yang spent a decade at Bloom Energy raising over $1B in green technology before pivoting to reinvent dentistry with light-based additive manufacturing. Under his leadership LuxCreo secured backing from Kleiner Perkins, achieved FDA clearance in 2022, launched in Europe in 2025, and is pushing same-day, in-clinic aligner production into mainstream dentistry.