How Newton is Bringing AI-Native Workflow Automation to Dental Practices

Newton, the AI workflow platform for dental, led by Rohit Chaparala and Sam Detjen, has secured $3.8 million in seed funding from Y Combinator, Twenty Two Ventures, The Transpose Platform, Phosphor Capital, and a cohort of prominent angels, including Bo Jiang of Lithic.

Newton serves as an AI-powered communications layer for dental practices, handling outbound and inbound tasks like reactivating unscheduled patients, verifying insurance benefits, and filling last-minute cancellations. By unifying phone, text, fax, AI reception, benefits verification, and analytics into a single platform, Newton replaces disconnected legacy systems. Dental groups using Newton report a 7% boost in collections and a 10x ROI, driven by higher chair utilization and reduced manual work.

Y Combinator Partner Brad Flora highlights Newton’s appeal in its simplicity: it integrates seamlessly with existing dental office systems, delivering immediate value without added complexity. This frictionless approach positions Newton as a leading force in modernizing healthcare operations, a sector historically slow to adopt new technologies due to compliance, integration, and patient data challenges.

Newton exemplifies a broader shift toward vertical AI platforms, tools tailored to the workflows of specific industries. In healthcare, startups are embedding AI directly into niche professions like dentistry, optometry, and veterinary care, delivering deeper domain expertise, faster adoption, and clear ROI. Newton transforms the dental front desk from a bottleneck into a predictive, self-optimizing system, learning from every call, cancellation, and patient interaction to improve efficiency day by day.