Torch Dental

Torch Dental operates an all-in-one dental supply management platform for independent dental practices. The product consolidates ordering into a single cart spanning more than 25 authorized vendors at pre-negotiated pricing, and provides inventory management, order history, spend visibility and budgeting dashboards. According to the company, its platform manages over 100,000 SKUs from thousands of brands and applies AI to help practices weigh quality, price and availability when making purchasing decisions.

The company markets vertical-specific configurations for general practice, orthodontics, endodontics, periodontics and pediatric dentistry, citing needs such as case-specific inventory for orthodontic supplies, automated reordering of critical endodontic tools, and specialized pediatric product sets. Torch positions its offering against the traditional purchasing workflow in which practices track preferences manually and order by phone, text or across multiple vendor websites; the company states practices typically overspend by 20%+ under that model.

Torch describes itself as taking a B2B marketplace approach that works with incumbent dental supply chains rather than displacing them, aligning existing vendor stakeholders while digitizing procurement that is otherwise handled with pen and paper, phone calls and email.

Founding story

Brothers Khaled and Yassine Boukadoum, immigrants from Algeria and Harvard MBA graduates, started the company after seeing their sister, dentist Meriem Boukadoum, struggle with disorganized, opaque supply tracking and repeated price negotiation. They partnered with software engineer Drew Werner, an MIT graduate and the son of a dental hygienist, who shared an interest in solving the problem.

Business model

Software platform intermediating dental supply purchasing between independent practices and authorized vendors, using aggregated demand to obtain pre-negotiated pricing. The company describes itself as empowering both dental practices and dental suppliers with AI-powered spend management tools. Sources do not disclose specific pricing or fee structure.

Not disclosed in the available sources; the site references a pricing page but no pricing terms are stated.

Traction

Over 3,000 dental practices on the platform as of January 2025 (over 2,000 as of July 2023); 100,000+ SKUs managed; claimed savings of 16%+ on top of discounted prices and up to 32% in budget savings, plus dozens of hours saved per month for dental teams. Approximately $40M raised since inception as of July 2023, with over $17M more announced in January 2025.

Latest developments

In January 2025 Torch Dental announced it had raised over $17 million from Amex Ventures, Alumni Ventures and Parameter Ventures alongside existing investors Raga Partners, Bessemer Venture Partners and Health Velocity Capital, described as an oversubscribed round closed in 2024. Concurrently it announced national availability across the continental U.S. and the opening of an Austin, Texas office.