Top Dental Startups in 2026

Candid is redefining oral health by using modern technology to help deliver human-focused care. With a commitment to creating the best outcomes, Candid inspires confidence and promotes wellbeing. We believe that high-quality orthodontics should be affordable and accessible, and we’re pioneering an innovative approach to diagnosing, treating, and monitoring cases remotely. Our team is a group of startup veterans with experience across healthcare, hospitality, tech, and finance at companies such as Lyft, BCG, Airbnb, Blackstone, and Clover Health.

Zocdoc is the tech company at the beginning of a better healthcare experience. Each month, millions of patients use Zocdoc to find in-network neighborhood doctors, instantly book appointments online, see what other real patients have to say, get reminders for upcoming appointments and preventive check-ups, fill out their paperwork online, and more. With a mission to give power to the patient, Zocdoc’s online marketplace delivers the accessible, seamless, and simple experience patients expect and deserve.

Patient-matched orthodontic appliances designed from digital impressions may decrease treatment duration for patients and chair time for clinicians. SO will market this aesthetic medical device to orthodontists and their patients.

VideaHealth products help clinicians, health insurances and large providers to detect diseases more accurately and earlier than the dental clinicians. This can help dental practices to become more profitable, health insurances to automatically approve claims and overall, significantly increase patient health.

Smylen allows you to Name Your Fee™ for dental treatment in NYC. We enable our network of superb dentists to offer discounts on remanent chair time through a variety of sales channels. Behind the scenes we match you with a dentist and enable you to schedule an appointment, all online and instantly at Smylen.com.

quip is the oral care company designing and delivering products, advice and professional services to make oral health more simple, accessible, and enjoyable — starting with a better electric toothbrush. As the first to market direct-to-consumer oral care subscription service — with fresh supplies delivered every three months, oral care advice sent straight to hundreds of thousands of consumers, and a bidirectional tech platform in development to connect users with a large dental professional network — quip is working to elevate every part of the oral care experience for everyone.

At ACTO, we’re on a mission to disrupt how drugs and devices are commercialized in the US and around the world. ACTO is the only one-stop-shop sales, marketing and training platform uniquely designed for life sciences to help increase sales and brand awareness while reducing compliance risks. We help pharma, medical device and dental companies increase rep effectiveness, message consistency and build a culture of continuous learning while helping them stay compliant.

InteGraft® is a multi-layered, synthetic, and fully resorbable membrane for use in periodontal disease treatment. Thanks to our unique patented production process, material, and specialist know-how, the InteGraft® membrane's fully controlled resorption, will be offered in three different degradation rates that makes it suitable for all surgical indications. This product will create a paradigm shift in Guided Tissue Regeneration (GTR) and Guided Bone Regeneration (GBR) applications.

To facilitate successful implant procedures by providing detailed planning and fabrication services that allow dentists to place implants faster and with more precision. This system improves success rates and saves an average of 24 minutes per surgery. Our services allow dental practices to grow their offerings and reputation for quality outcomes, as well as the ability to accept more patients. EVERYONE DESERVES TO LOVE THEIR SMILE.

We are a lower middle market private equity firm focused on the healthcare and dental industry. We specialize in growth capital, platform roll-ups, buyouts, and recapitalizations. Our sweet spot is to partner with founder-led or family businesses and help them scale to the next level by providing industry operational expertise and the right capital structure.