USA – Overjet, a Cambridge, Mass.-based provider of Artificial Intelligence-powered technology for the dental industry, closed a total of $7.85M in seed funding.
The round was led by Crosslink Capital with participation from other investors such as MIT E14 fund and strategic dental industry partners. Led by co-founder and CEO Dr. Wardah Inam, Overjet provides a Clinical Intelligence Platform that uses computer vision and data science to help dental organizations automate clinical data analysis to improve patient care. The company is working with some of the largest dental payers and dental group practices. Payers are using it to automate utilization review and fraud, waste and abuse detection. Dental Group practices are using the platform to obtain a comprehensive clinical overview to identify key performance indicators, reduce inefficiencies and improve quality of care across multiple locations. Overjet’s team is led by Dr. Inam who received a PhD from MIT and was a postdoctoral fellow at MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab. Dr. Deepak Ramaswamy, CTO, has a PhD from MIT and MBA from Cornell. He has 17 years of experience in technical leadership roles at Ansoft (acquired by Ansys), Q bio, Mathworks, Amazon and others. Dr. Robert Faiella, Chief Dental Officer, is the past-president of American Dental Association and received his graduate training from Harvard School of Dental Medicine and has an MBA from MIT Sloan School of Management. Dr. Chris Balaban, Clinical Director, received his DMD from Boston University Goldman School of Dental Medicine and holds a faculty position there. Shaju Puthussery, COO, is a seasoned dental industry executive and previously was the Chief Analytics Officer at DentaQuest, the largest Medicaid dental benefits provider. 01/07/2020
