It was 2021 and Jonathan Rat was tired of seeing his wife, a dentist, struggle to maintain the tech stack at her practice.
Rat, who had served as a product manager at companies including Uber, Meta and SurveyMonkey, dug into the problem and discovered that “most of the software used in the industry” was more than 20 years old and still required physical services onsite.
“Most lacked integration with other platforms, were slow and buggy, and impossible to train new employees on,” he recalls.
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So Rat teamed up with Benjamin Kolin, a former director of engineering at Uber, to start Archy, an AI-powered platform that aims “to put dental practices on autopilot.” The pair previously led the rebuilding of Uber’s payment platform that’s still in use today.
“I realized there was a massive need and opportunity for a modern, cloud-based software platform and set out to build that,” Rat told Crunchbase News. “I also realized bigger tech players have been building software for the larger healthcare market but overlooked the $500 billion dental industry.”
And now, Archy has just raised $20 million in Series B funding to help it grow even more, it told Crunchbase News exclusively. TCV led the financing, which also included participation from Bessemer Venture Partners, CRV, Entrée Capital and 25 practicing dentists who wrote checks as angel investors. The raise brings Archy’s total funding to date to $47 million, Rat said.
The company raised a $15 million Series A led by Entrée Capital almost exactly one year ago. Rat confirmed the Series B was an up round, but declined to disclose Archy’s valuation.
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