Doug Brown

Dental Industry Leader | Managing Partner and Co-Founder of DIA

📍 United States🔄 Updated October 2026💼 4 investments📅 8 years investing🗓 Last invested Mar 2022
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Investor and Advisor
Mar 2022
CureMint empowers dental organizations with a cloud-based source-to-pay platform that manages their entire procurement lifecycle in one easy-to-use place. CureMint’s Procure module delivers a streamlined ordering experience that office staff will love while arming managers with the tools necessary to gain full control and visibility across their organization. CureMint’s Pay module removes the costly blindspots that exist between procurement and accounts payable departments by removing silos and streamlining invoicing and other A/P processes.
Investor and Advisor
Mar 2022
Introducing DentalHQ: the revolutionary in-house membership platform for dentists. Our platform empowers dentists to attract and retain fee-for-service patients while eliminating the hassles of dental insurance. With DentalHQ, you can provide uninsured patients with budgetary control over their dental care, reducing the #1 barrier to attracting uninsured patients: cost. Our platform, designed by a dentist, promotes overall patient health by removing barriers to oral healthcare and fosters a direct relationship between you and your patients. Our Saas application allows you to create custom dental membership plans, automate billing and reporting, and includes services to attract and retain new members. In addition to plan management, our platform offers patient financing tools, integrated marketing services, expert consultation, patient outreach, and new patient acquisition services, all designed to help you see more fee-for-service patients and increase practice revenue substantially. With a customer retention rate of 94.7%, our proven solutions have helped thousands of practitioners, DSOs, and dental professionals. Choose DentalHQ for the best value in in-house membership plan management.
Investor and Advisor
Mar 2022
UptimeHealth, headquartered in Boston, MA, is a fast-growing software startup that simplifies medical device service events, purchases, and compliance practices through automation and predictive analytics. We focus on providing administrators and operators with simple-to-use software to manage compliance tasks, gain access to actionable data to increase operational efficiencies, and tap into the largest network of qualified biomed technicians to support their medical devices. We are a team of experts and professionals with a deep understanding of compliance, medical device management, and its direct correlation to patient care. Our tools were built to support the movement of healthcare to in-home and outpatient settings.
Investor and Advisor
Mar 2018
Accessible Dental Insurance APIs Integrate dental insurance data into your products today with modern developer tooling, expressive schemas, and simple primitives to transform your provider and patient experiences within dental.
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2022
Managing Partner and Co-Founder
Oct 2022
Dental Innovation Alliance (DIA) is a venture capital firm that funds, advises, and propels the success of early-stage companies building the future of dentistry and health through technology. Its investor base includes executives and experts from some of the largest and most innovative dental support organizations and other dental businesses. DIA has offices in Raleigh-Durham and Nashville.
Investor and Advisor
Mar 2022
CureMint empowers dental organizations with a cloud-based source-to-pay platform that manages their entire procurement lifecycle in one easy-to-use place. CureMint’s Procure module delivers a streamlined ordering experience that office staff will love while arming managers with the tools necessary to gain full control and visibility across their organization. CureMint’s Pay module removes the costly blindspots that exist between procurement and accounts payable departments by removing silos and streamlining invoicing and other A/P processes.
Investor and Advisor
Mar 2022
Introducing DentalHQ: the revolutionary in-house membership platform for dentists. Our platform empowers dentists to attract and retain fee-for-service patients while eliminating the hassles of dental insurance. With DentalHQ, you can provide uninsured patients with budgetary control over their dental care, reducing the #1 barrier to attracting uninsured patients: cost. Our platform, designed by a dentist, promotes overall patient health by removing barriers to oral healthcare and fosters a direct relationship between you and your patients. Our Saas application allows you to create custom dental membership plans, automate billing and reporting, and includes services to attract and retain new members. In addition to plan management, our platform offers patient financing tools, integrated marketing services, expert consultation, patient outreach, and new patient acquisition services, all designed to help you see more fee-for-service patients and increase practice revenue substantially. With a customer retention rate of 94.7%, our proven solutions have helped thousands of practitioners, DSOs, and dental professionals. Choose DentalHQ for the best value in in-house membership plan management.
Investor and Advisor
Mar 2022
UptimeHealth, headquartered in Boston, MA, is a fast-growing software startup that simplifies medical device service events, purchases, and compliance practices through automation and predictive analytics. We focus on providing administrators and operators with simple-to-use software to manage compliance tasks, gain access to actionable data to increase operational efficiencies, and tap into the largest network of qualified biomed technicians to support their medical devices. We are a team of experts and professionals with a deep understanding of compliance, medical device management, and its direct correlation to patient care. Our tools were built to support the movement of healthcare to in-home and outpatient settings.
2019
Director
Jun 2019
We are Endodontic Practice Partners, or EPP, a dynamic business exclusively focused on endodontics. Endodontic Practice Partners provides valuable business resources to support each of our endodontic practices. Our founders have a combined 60 years of clinical and operational experience in dentistry and health care and are dedicated to creating a nationwide partnership of endodontic practices focused on patient care, clinical quality, and growth. At EPP, we are your partners in success. By affiliating with premier endodontic practices, we aim to elevate the standard of care and believe in letting our practitioners focus on their core clinical responsibilities — delivering high-quality, patient-centered care. Our mission is clear - to provide business expertise and resources that empower our partner practices and amplify growth opportunities. How do we achieve this? By seamlessly integrating, helping to reach personal and professional goals. Were not just colleagues but a community working towards a common goal. The value of being part of a larger entity benefits all. We are growing in selective states to maximize the opportunities and impact for our partners. With 100 doctors and 65 practices, collective success drives individual achievements. Together, we lead the way.
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