Alara

Procurement Platform for Dental Offices

Y CombinatorSummer 2025ActiveB2BArtificial IntelligenceDentalProcurement

What they do

Problem

Dental offices waste time and overspend because supply purchasing requires comparing prices and ordering across multiple vendors separately.

Solution

Alara is a procurement platform that aggregates supplier catalogs, provides real-time price comparisons, and enables ordering from multiple vendors in a single cart.

Who it's for

Dental offices and dentists who purchase clinical supplies from multiple suppliers.

Founders

Dr. Sabrine Obbad

Founder

Co-founder of Alara. I'm a pediatric dentist and private practice owner who experiences first hand the procurement mess we are trying to solve. I hold a B.Sc and M.Sc in Chemistry from NYU and a D.D.S from NYU College of Dentistry. Prior to being a dentist I was a pharmaceutical and computational chemist working in the field of protein biochemistry where I helped develop cancer drugs for clinical trials.

Elyas Obbad

Founder

Co-founder of Alara. I was previously at DoorDash, Google, and Meta, where I led engineering on large-scale AI systems and consumer products used by millions. I hold an M.S. in Computer Science from Stanford and a B.S. from Columbia, specializing in AI and intelligent systems. As a researcher at Stanford’s Trustworthy AI Lab, I’ve published first-author work at ICML and NeurIPS on large language model data curation and alignment.

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