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Toothy AI

AI for insurance verification & billing at dental clinics

Y CombinatorWinter 2025ActiveHealthcareHealthcare ITArtificial IntelligenceHealth TechHealthcareDental

What they do

Problem

Dental clinics waste significant time and money on manual insurance verification, billing, and claims processing, leading to delays and inefficiencies in reimbursements.

Solution

AI agents automate the end-to-end dental insurance workflow, including policy verification, billing/claims processing, and making insurance calls via voice AI.

Who it's for

Dental clinics and dental practices that handle patient insurance workflows.

Founders

Johnny Chen
Founder

2nd time founder now automating back office functions for dental clinics. Built one of the first AI B2B cold email solutions (backed by SoftBank) to $1m in ARR using GPT-J. Background in full stack engineering, operations management, and B2B marketing. Previously worked at Ford Motor’s R&D lab as a software engineer.

Matt Kerrigan
Founder

2nd time technical founder at Toothy AI, where I'm working on automating back office operations for dental clinics. First journey ended in Salezilla, a LLM-based cold email campaign tool that launched before ChatGPT, it is still operating today. Before that I was in a ML role at a startup that was acquired by Nordstrom.

Tejas Konduru
Founder

Helping build the largest healthcare AI company!

Open roles 1

Founding Lead Engineer
San Francisco, CA, US / Chicago, IL, US / Remote (US) · Full-time · $100K - $200K · 0.50% - 2.00%
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