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Retrace
Retrace is a San Francisco AI company rebuilding the plumbing of dental insurance. Founded in 2016 by dentist-engineer Dr. Ali Sadat, it operates what it calls the first natively-built AI healthcare clearinghouse - a network that reads X-rays and clinical records, compares proposed procedures against millions of adjudicated cases, and lets payers, providers and patients see coverage, cost and payout in real time so claims settle in seconds instead of weeks. Backed by Intel Capital and SoftBank, Retrace has raised roughly $18 million to automate the paperwork that sits between a dentist's chair and an insurer's check.
Arini
Arini is a San Francisco-based AI company that builds a voice and text receptionist for dental practices. Its AI agent answers patient calls 24/7, books and reschedules appointments directly into practice management software, and handles insurance and billing questions - aiming to recover the revenue clinics lose when front desks miss roughly a third of inbound calls. Founded in 2024 by Abdulrahman Jamjoom and Rami Rustom, both former engineers on Meta's Threads team, the company went through Y Combinator's Winter 2024 batch and now handles over 15,000 patient calls a day for dental groups and DSOs across the US and Canada.
Avora
Avora builds AI agents for dental operations. Its agents listen to appointments, draft clinically accurate chart notes, coach providers in real time on treatment-plan communication, and surface practice-level analytics for dental practices and DSOs. Founded in 2024 and backed by Y Combinator and CRV, Avora aims to lift case acceptance and give providers back hours each day without forcing practices to hire more staff.
VELMENI
VELMENI is a Sunnyvale-based dental AI platform that uses computer vision and deep learning to analyze 2D and 3D dental radiographs in real time. Its FDA-cleared flagship product, VELMENI for DENTISTS, is the first dental AI approved to detect pathologies in panoramic X-rays — catching caries, bone loss, and other findings that experienced clinicians miss roughly one-third of the time. Beyond diagnostics, the platform automates insurance claims, enables voice-assisted periodontal charting, interprets CBCT scans, and delivers VR-based patient education, all from a single integrated workflow. Founded in 2020 by CEO Mini Suri and Chief Dental Officer Dr. Arvin Oberai, the company has been beta-tested by over 1,300 dentists across 500+ practices in 50+ countries.