Travis Rodgers

I help dental entrepreneurs turn great ideas into companies that can launch, grow, raise capital, scale, and sell.

I’m the Founder of Dental Venture Group, where I work with dental startups, founders, investors, advisors, and industry leaders to accelerate innovation across dentistry.

Over the past 23 years, I’ve helped launch 500+ dental startup companies, built 7 companies, sold a few, developed 27 software products, and helped bring hundreds of products to market.

Today, I leverage that experience and a network of dental professionals, investors, executives, KOLs, founders, and industry partners to help dental companies succeed.

Through Dental Venture Capital Group, I help founders with:

• Implement my Dental Innovators Operating System (DIOS) • Becoming Investable • Setting up GoHighLevel for marketing and sales • Go-to-market strategy & positioning • Business development & partnerships • Fundraising, investor strategy & pitch development • Advisor & KOL recruitment • PR, podcast booking, webinars & industry visibility • Introductions to investors, dentists, DSOs & strategic partners

I host the Dental Venture Summit, which brings together entrepreneurs, investors, clinicians, executives, KOLs, and innovators to build relationships, partnerships, and opportunities.

My dental technology journey started in 2003 when my orthodontist brother-in-law asked me to build an electronic referral system. From there, I helped pioneer early dental technologies including electronic referrals, online scheduling, patient file sharing, and integrations between practice management and dental laboratory systems.

My company, DrDDS Innovations, went on to develop technologies and integrations used by dental software companies and thousands of practices.

That journey taught me an important lesson:

Building great technology is only part of building a great company.

Successful companies also need distribution, partnerships, customers, capital, advisors, advocates, and most importantly, the right relationships.

That’s what I focus on today: building a stronger dental innovation ecosystem where founders, dentists, investors, DSOs, executives, advisors, and innovators can find each other and build successful companies together.

If you’re building, funding, investing in, advising, or partnering with a dental startup, I’d like to know you.

The dental industry is built on relationships. I help the right people connect.

Build. Fund. Connect. Scale. Sell.

Dental VC: dentalvc.org Dental Venture Summit: dentalventuresummit.com Travis Rodgers: travisrodgers.com Travis was a Silicon Valley pioneer in dental technology — he was the first to develop electronic referrals, online scheduling, and a patient file-sharing app for dentistry. He serves as Technology Editor for Dental Entrepreneur Magazine and is a sought-after speaker on technology and implementing change in dental practices.

Through Dental Venture Capital, Travis offers a signature 90-Day Startup Sprint program that takes companies from idea to exit, covering investment readiness (pitch deck development, investor introductions, pitch events), product/idea development, growth services (media exposure, KOL programs, sell-to-dental training), and access to a 100k-contact dental database delivered via DrDDS.io CRM. His network includes 14k investor contacts and he has helped startups raise over $4M in funding.

Dental Venture Capital hosts monthly online and in-person pitch events where startups pitch directly to investors.