5/23/2023 0 Comments Lightforce by PB & Jason![]() Kleiner Perkins cut its teeth in the business of orthodontics 25 years ago, making a boatload of money from its investment in Invisalign. Investors paid attention, and one investor, in particular, wanted to get its fangs into the company and place itself on the cap table. ![]() LightForce Orthodontics has seen stratospheric growth over the past year - 500% revenue growth, while the team grew by 300%. In this case, more custom means better: Patients enjoy shorter treatment times, and orthodontists are able to offer tooth movement treatment plans with incredible precision - down to a thousandth of a millimeter. ![]() With the snappy slogan “one size fits one”, LightForce Orthodontics creates custom, 3D-printed brackets and placement trays for braces. For the rest, there hasn’t been much in the way of innovation - until LightForce came along and shook things up. ![]() In the late 1990s, Invisalign changed the industry with customizable aligners, but it turns out that aligners only serve 30% of orthodontics patients. Everyone’s set of teeth are different enough that orthodontics has traditionally been part artistry, part medical witchcraft. ![]()
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