Jason Shuman

Dandy will be the largest dental company in the world. VCs and Founders talk a lot about the impact robotics and AI will have on high mix, low volume manufacturing industries. Nothing gets more high mix and low volume than dental prosthetics. The team at Dandy has obsessed over two customers: the dentist and the patient. Dentists need restorations that fit, a lab they can rely on, and fewer appointments spent fixing problems. Patients want to eat, speak, and smile without their dentures becoming the center of their lives. That focus led Dandy to rebuild the process from scan to finished product. Today, they’re introducing dentures designed to take two appointments instead of the traditional five or six. We all know that better, faster, cheaper is the strongest value proposition a company can have. In high mix, low volume environments that is extremely challenging. Over the last 18 months though, Dandy has had dozens of breakthroughs in material science, robotics and AI to bring this vision to life in a precision manufacturing market that nearly no one knows about, but almost everyone experiences in their daily lives. The hard work and determination that this team has had to bring these products to market will not only have an impact on peoples smiles globally, but many more markets to come.