SaaS Dental Membership platform to add personnel, expand sales & marketing, accelerate development

DentalHQ, a startup simplifying dental membership plans for dentists and patients, has raised $1.5 million in equity funding. With its latest round of funding, the company plans to expand its impact by adding jobs while furthering its efforts to make dental care more accessible to those that may not have dental insurance.

DentalHQ was founded by dentist and entrepreneur Dr. Brett Wells. “As a practicing dentist, I saw the opportunity to provide patients, particularly those who are under-insured, with the highest quality of care through dental membership plans. That’s why I founded DentalHQ.”

Since 2017, DentalHQ has worked hard to develop tools to help dental practice owners implement and manage in-house membership plans. Dental membership plans enable practices to offer patients a wide array of options to receive regular preventive care as well as other necessary procedures at a transparent price, while providing predictable revenue for the practice. Over the past four years, the company has helped thousands of dentists implement membership plans in nearly all 50 states (come on, West Virginia!). The residual benefit of DentalHQ reaches tens of thousands of patients nationwide.

“[Because of DentalHQ] we're better at attracting new patients and we're doing a better job of keeping our existing [patients], expressed longtime DentalHQ client Kimber Holmes, DDS of Pasadena Family Dentistry in Pasadena, TX.

“Our team loves caring for our patients,” said Dr. Michael Riccobene, of Riccobene Associates, an early adopter of DentalHQ, “and DentalHQ allows them more opportunities to provide that care – before, many of our uninsured patients weren’t coming in regularly and would refuse treatment plans, and now we’re seeing increased compliance and increased case acceptance. Our team loves that. And so do our patients.”

Prior to this round of funding, the company had grown organically, taking little outside investment. “We saw an opportunity to make an even greater impact by working with strategic investors to continue to grow and further the mission of the company,” shares Dr. Wells. “We have prided ourselves on providing outstanding support to all of our clients by always being available and quick to respond to any needs. This funding allows us to continue to widen our influence while maintaining that level of service.”

With this new round of funding, the company is continuing to push the envelope of membership plan platforms through aggressive feature development, as well as actively hiring key personnel across the organization including marketing, sales, product, client success, and operations.