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DDS Collective

A comprehensive ecosystem designed for dentistry, connecting practices with the people, technology, and solutions they need to grow.

Built from the largest ecosystem of dentistry’s startup co-founders, with roots in thousands of early-stage startups, DDS Collective gives practice owners the resources of a large organization and the freedom of their own.

One Trusted Relationship for Dentistry

Most practices can’t justify full-time recruiters, technology teams, marketing experts, and vendor managers.

So they end up juggling six to ten relationships across recruiting, labs, technology, marketing, suppliers, and consulting.

DDS Collective brings those needs together through one trusted relationship.

We learn your practice, find the biggest opportunities across talent and technology, and coordinate the right people, partners, and solutions around your goals.

It’s how we strengthen dentistry, connecting the clinical and startup worlds around practice owners.

The Team

Meet the team.

Darius Somekhian
Founder

Darius Somekhian

  • Founder, DDS Collective
  • Fund Manager, oral-health VC

Thirty years in dental, from scaling the largest talent marketplaces in dentistry to today running one of the few oral-health-focused venture funds, fostering innovation and supporting hundreds of oral-health tech startup founders. The longest-standing doctor and specialist recruiter in dentistry, with 17 years placing clinical talent.

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Shivam Bhatia
Technology Advisor

Shivam Bhatia

  • Founder & CEO, Clinsight.ai
  • Technology Advisor, DDS Collective

Founder of Clinsight.ai, building AI for healthcare growth, hiring, and retention. Previously built and scaled venture-backed startups across healthcare, fintech, and recruiting.

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Brian Passell, Ph.D.
Associate Partner Recruiter

Brian Passell, Ph.D.

  • Practice Culture & Growth Architect
  • DDS Collective

Twenty years in talent management and organizational science. An industrial/organizational psychologist by training and key business advisor by experience, from running a practice management consulting firm to building a culture-first dental search methodology.

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DDS Vendors

Better Partners and Proven Solutions

More than a GPO. DDS Vendors connects practices with vetted solutions ranging from emerging software and technology to consultants, financing partners, and service providers across the dental ecosystem.

Instead of an overwhelming vendor marketplace, we recommend options tailored to your interests, needs, priorities, and stage of growth.

DDS Matchmaker

Emerging Technology and Clinical Innovation

Growing practices should not be the last to benefit from innovation.

Through our relationships across the private oral-health technology and investment ecosystem, DDS Matchmaker can introduce practices to emerging solutions across:

  • Dental software and artificial intelligence
  • Practice automation and patient communication
  • Medtech and diagnostic technology
  • Clinical modalities and advanced treatment solutions
  • Therapeutics and other oral-health innovations

Clinicians can also join emerging startups as KOLs and advisors. And through our innovation events, you get invites across the country and near you, to meet founders in person and watch them pitch on stage.

Clinsight

Modern Technology and AI

Modernizing a practice isn’t just about AI. It’s broader than that, and your team spends less time on administration and more time with patients.

Through Clinsight AI and our broader technology ecosystem, we help practices access vetted solutions such as:

  • AI voice and patient-intake agents
  • AI-powered front-desk support
  • Patient follow-up and reactivation systems
  • Workflow and operational automation
  • Practice intelligence and performance tools
  • Marketing and patient-growth technology

Not more software. Proven technology that solves a real problem and fits how you already work.

DDS Recruit

Clinical Hiring and Talent

DDS Recruit helps practices hire associates, in-house specialists, front-office professionals, and operational leaders, matched around your clinical needs, team, patients, culture, and long-term goals.

Rather than another full-time hire, get an experienced recruiting team on a fractional basis, with the reach and system to fill seats that have sat open for months.

Why DDS Collective

The resources of a large organization, the freedom of your own.

What makes us unique

The only one of its kind

DDS Collective is the only advisory agency connecting dentistry’s clinicians and people to early-stage founders. Nothing like it exists in dentistry.

We pioneered dental innovation events

Through DDS Matchmaker, we created the innovation networking events that bring founders and clinicians together, on stage and in person.

A GPO unlike any other

The only tech-advanced GPO in dentistry, with private access to emerging technology and an ecosystem we built for founders. Backed by decades of recruiting and a Ph.D. in organizational psychology.

Why we do this

Empower practice owners

Help owners build the practice, career, and success they could imagine, with resources they could never assemble alone.

Bridge the talent gap

Graduates cluster in the cities while suburban practices are left to fend for themselves. We connect the right people to the places that need them.

End the plague of unsustainability

Practices keep hiring only to watch people leave. We don’t just flip resumes, we build teams that stay.

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Built for Dentistry

DDS Collective supports solo dentists, practice owners, and small dental groups that want to hire and keep great people, adopt better technology, and operate at the highest level.