A variety of the sectors and industries that comprise the private market have seen healthy, and in some cases overwhelming, inflows of capital investment in early-stage companies. This trend has fostered a culture that encourages innovation causing industries to evolve and experience significant boosts in productivity. Unfortunately, not all sectors have the same access to the capital required to innovate. Many industries ripe for disruption have been overlooked. This confluence of circumstances presents an excellent investment opportunity.

Dental is one of those industries. It has seen a substantial amount of innovation through the years and is poised to see much more. Dental companies in search of capital have often had to masquerade themselves as belonging to more “popular” industries such as technology, artificial intelligence, generic healthcare, or business services to garner investor attention.

As a subsector of healthcare, dental has and will continue to benefit from increased investment in the healthcare industry as a whole. While healthcare investment is smaller relative to other sectors, it is growing at a considerable pace and has become a staple among investors’ portfolios.

Using knowledge of cyclical, structural trends and what investors have experienced in the past can help develop expectations around future performance. Pairing the intuition of industry experts with the results of data-driven analysis informs a granular understanding of the investment opportunities in the dental space. That’s what all venture capitalists in the dental sector should do. That’s what Revere Partners does.