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10x Dental
10x Dental is a Y Combinator (W25) startup that builds AI sales teams for dental practices. It plugs into a practice's patient database, finds overdue recalls, lapsed patients, and unscheduled treatment plans, then calls and texts those patients automatically to book them back into the chair - recovering revenue that would otherwise slip through the cracks.
Toothy AI
Toothy AI builds HIPAA-compliant AI agents that run the insurance side of a dental practice - verifying patient coverage, filing and correcting claims, chasing denials, and posting payments. Using voice AI to make payer phone calls and portal automation to check eligibility, Toothy aims to take the roughly 160 hours a month that clinics spend on insurance busywork off staff plates. A Y Combinator Winter 2025 company founded in 2024 by Johnny Chen and Matthew Kerrigan, it sells a subscription service to dental clinics looking to collect more, faster, with smaller back-office teams.
Lassie
Lassie is a San Francisco AI company building an autonomous 'AI healthcare admin worker' for independent medical and dental practices. Its agents log into insurance portals, pull reimbursements, reconcile electronic payments, post entries to practice-management systems, handle appeals and enrollments, and flag exceptions for humans - doing the back-office busywork rather than adding review burden. Founded by Robinhood/Coinbase and Superhuman alumni, Lassie operates in 700+ practices across 49 states and raised a $35M Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz in June 2026.
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.
Cherry
Cherry is a San Francisco fintech that lets healthcare and wellness practices offer patients buy-now-pay-later financing at the point of care. Founded in 2019 by Felix Steinmeyer and Charles Mourani, the company underwrites loans up to $50,000 in under 60 seconds with a soft credit pull, pays providers upfront, and is used by more than 60,000 practices across dental, medical aesthetics, dermatology, optometry and veterinary care.
Felix Steinmeyer
Felix Steinmeyer is the CEO and Co-Founder of Cherry, the leading buy-now-pay-later platform built specifically for healthcare and wellness providers. A Stanford MBA with dual master's degrees, he previously co-founded and sold Mason Finance before turning his attention to the underserved gap between patients who need care and their ability to pay for it. Under his leadership, Cherry has grown to serve 60,000+ providers, raised a Series B of $44M in 2022, and in April 2025 achieved a valuation exceeding $2 billion with a Series C round - making it one of the most significant vertical BNPL players in healthcare.
Wisdom
Wisdom is a New York-based AI-powered dental revenue cycle management platform that helps dental practices collect more from insurers, faster. Founded in 2023 by fintech veteran Stoyan Kenderov and billing expert Ashley Bond, Wisdom pairs proprietary AI with dedicated human billing teams to handle the full claims lifecycle — from insurance verification to denial appeals. The company has raised $28M in funding and reports that over 98% of clients see increased insurance billing revenues after joining.
Daniel Bessonov
Daniel Bessonov is the co-founder and CEO of Avora, a Y Combinator- and CRV-backed AI platform that deploys intelligent agents for dental operations - automating clinical documentation, coaching providers on case acceptance, and following up with patients. Before Avora, he architected core payment features at Ramp, built UAV encryption at Anduril, and led product intelligence at Wispr AI. A Penn M&T graduate (CS + Finance), he became a Top 25 App Store developer at age 14 and has spent the decade since compressing complex AI problems into products clinicians actually use.