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Bento
Bento is a Boston-based dental benefits technology company that replaces traditional dental insurance with a transparent, self-funded model. Its patented, AI-powered platform connects employers, associations, dentists and DSOs with real-time claims adjudication, customizable plan design and in-office membership plans. The only dental benefits solution endorsed by the American Dental Association, Bento says it can cut employer dental costs by 20-40% while giving members access to hundreds of thousands of provider access points nationwide.
Ram Sudireddy
Ram Sudireddy is the founder, chairman, president and CEO of Bento, a Boston-based dental benefits platform he started in 2017 after concluding that dental insurance, as sold, was structurally broken. Before Bento he built and sold three technology companies - Cimaron Communications to AMCC, CHiL Semiconductor to International Rectifier, and Mustbin to LifeSite - and chaired Sanovi through its acquisition by IBM. He is a semiconductor architect by training who now runs a dental payments company, which is the kind of career pivot that only makes sense if you spend a long weekend reading your family's EOBs.