01Health raises $15m to open dental platform to practices

A UK healthtech company has raised $15 million in Series A funding and commercially launched the platform behind 32Co and Aerox Health, allowing dental practices and practice groups to license the technology for the first time.

01Health, founded in 2022 by former NHS doctor Dr Sonia Szamocki, developed the platform to enable clinicians with additional expertise to support wider networks of general dental practitioners remotely.

The company said the platform combined clinical oversight, protocols, artificial intelligence (AI)-powered patient acquisition, communication tools and operational systems in a single infrastructure.

Until now, the technology has operated behind 01Health’s own dental brands: clear aligner provider 32Co and dental sleep medicine service Aerox Health.

Following a 12-month pilot with enterprise partners, it is now available to practices, practice groups and dental service organisations in the United Kingdom (UK) and United States (US), where trials were already underway.

The round was led by Gresham House Ventures, with participation from existing investors Balderton Capital, Eka Ventures and Wavemaker360, along with angel investors including Blockchain.com co-founder Nicolas Cary.

Dr Szamocki said: ‘The biggest bottleneck in healthcare isn’t cost; it’s access. Specialists are concentrated in a handful of postcodes; patients aren’t.’

01Health said 90% of the UK population lived within 30 minutes of a 32Co dentist using its platform. The company has raised $25 million to date and employs more than 100 people, with a clinical team led by Professor Ama Johal.

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