Dental Startups funded by Y Combinator (YC) 2026

Alara aggregates product listings from numerous suppliers, shows real-time price comparisons, and lets dentists order from different vendors in a single cart. With Alara, dental offices are saving time and money when ordering supplies.

We’re Toothy.ai. We’re building AI agents for dental practices that handle everything related to patient insurance. The average dental clinic spends over 160 hours a month on insurance tasks like verifying patient policies, billing, and claims processing. Our AI agents automate this entire workflow—including making insurance calls with voice AI—saving clinics time, reducing costs, and ensuring faster reimbursements.

Dodo turns client communication into booked appointments, completed workflows, and predictive analytics, powering millions of client interactions annually for hundreds of clinics. Our multi-agent system autonomously runs scheduling, refills, intake, and follow-ups across calls and texts — integrating directly with clinic systems to cut communication overhead ~70% and act like a trained CSR 24/7.

At Arini, we’re building the operating system for dental groups. Phones are the backbone of dental operations — 80% of appointments are still booked over the phone — yet practices miss 20–30% of inbound calls. That’s millions in lost revenue every month. Patient engagement is the biggest bottleneck to growth in dentistry, and we’ve built the most comprehensive AI-powered patient engagement suite in the industry. Arini manages calls, texts, and bookings. We’re going after a $220B, overlooked industry that still runs on legacy systems and outdated workflows. Arini is bringing AI to every part of the dental stack.

Onederful is an API for dental insurance. Automate verifications and claim submissions across 200+ dental insurance carriers.