PracticeTek has spent five years buying the software that runs America's dentists, orthodontists, chiropractors and dermatologists. Now more than 40,000 practices log in through its brands - and most patients never learn its name.
NexHealth is a San Francisco-based health technology company building the patient experience platform for medical and dental practices. Its software gives doctors EHR-integrated online scheduling, patient messaging, digital paperwork, recalls, reviews and payments, while its Universal API and proprietary Synchronizer let developers read and write data across 20+ practice management systems in real time. Founded in 2017 by Alamin Uddin and Waleed Asif, NexHealth reached unicorn status in 2022 with a $125M Series C at a $1B valuation and serves more than 10,000 practices.
Sikka.ai is a San Jose-based AI and API platform for the retail healthcare market - dentistry, veterinary, optometry, audiology, chiropractic and more. Its ONE API connects to over 400 practice management systems and roughly 96% of the market, giving developers and practices a single integration point to pull patient data, post payments, and tap 300+ KPIs. Built on de-identified data from tens of thousands of practices over two decades, Sikka also ships practice-facing analytics (Optimizer) and DentalLLM, a dental-specific large language model. Founded in 2004 by Vijay Sikka, the company processes large transaction volumes daily across more than 35,000 practice installations.
Archy is a San Jose-based cloud platform that replaces the five-plus aging tools most dental offices duct-tape together — scheduling, charting, billing, imaging, insurance, payments, messaging and reporting — with one login, one mobile app, and a stack of AI agents that quietly do the busywork.