Driving Innovation in Dental Healthcare

Expertise. Opportunities. Capital.

Our goal is to improve dental healthcare by identifying and evaluating investment opportunities to support the growth of our portfolio companies and improve oral care.

About Us

For dentists, by dentists, involving dentists expertise

Dental Innovation Fund partners with organizations at the beginning of their growth journey, and we seek to identify companies best positioned to improve the delivery of dental healthcare.

Our strategy leverages both an extensive background in fund management and expertise in the dental industry. Our unique model also will include dental practitioners and both investors and market experts as we evaluate and pilot opportunities.

The current surge of investments in the dental space by venture capital and private equity firms has created opportunities to improve value through advancements in technology, business models, products, services and practice management.

  • 172

    Number of Organizations

  • 333

    Number of Funding Rounds

  • $1.6B

    Total Funding Amount

  • $54B

    Estimated size of the non-practice market

Approach

The Fund represents a new opportunity to advance dental innovation. With the goal of organizing a large group of like-minded investors, innovators, researchers, industry partners, and other participants, the Fund hopes to play an instrumental role in the formation of a national ecosystem focused on commercializing innovations focused on the field of dentistry.

Our strategy is to apply our proprietary value creation model to commercialize a pipeline of early-stage opportunities in order to develop dental related solutions across a spectrum of categories. To execute on its thesis, the Fund will deploy: pre-seed investments to form and start-up new ventures (innovation); seed investments to advance innovation stage investments toward or through regulatory approvals and/or product launch (incubation); and series A investments to increase growth (acceleration).

Team

  • Eric V. Trappen

    Managing Director

    Nearly 30 years on both sides of the funder/funded equation with numerous exits.

  • Seth Yakatan

    Partner

    Over 25 years of experience building funds and creating value for opportunities.

  • Dr. Larry Harlan

    Partner, Dental Subject Matter Expert

    34 years Private Practice, Clinical Professor, Inventor, Researcher, Dental Entrepreneur, Investor, Private Equity Evaluator, Venture Capitalist.

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