SmileDirectClub

Health Tech & Medtech · Nashville, United States · Founded 2013 · IPO 2019

Home invisible aligners, a series of plastic aligners that gradually shift teeth into their desired position

Valuation $834M

Revenue $430M

Power Law Unicorn$1–10B valuation tier Thoroughbred$100M+ revenue

Talent graph

SmileDirectClub's talent

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Employees mapped 1,007 incl. 1 AI specialist

Founders /100 quality score

Key operators 9 quality /100

Potential founders likely future founders

Startup mafia 4 alumni-founded startups

Talent movements in · out past 12 months

Source: Dealroom Talent Intelligence.

Investors

4 investors on SmileDirectClub's cap table

Sourced from Dealroom's funding history. Investor profile links are shown where available.

Series B+ 4 investors entered at this stage

Align Technology

Spark Capital

Kleiner Perkins

CD&R

SmileDirectClub mafia

Startups founded by SmileDirectClub alumni

Former SmileDirectClub employees who went on to start their own companies. Sorted by Dealroom signal score.

CareBridgeEst. 2019

Bill FristUnited States

Signal score88

TendEst. 2018

Doug HudsonUnited States

Signal score75

CAREEst. 2022

Kay OswaldSwitzerland

Signal score61

OhWaiterEst. 2019

TATony AbellUnited States

Signal score42

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Global footprint

Where SmileDirectClub has talent and traffic

Workforce by country

18 countries with
team presence

🇺🇸 United States60.3%

🇨🇷 Costa Rica28.8%

🇬🇧 United Kingdom3.3%

🇨🇦 Canada1.5%

🇦🇺 Australia1.1%

Top 5 of 18 shown

Web traffic by country

2.3K monthly visits
across markets

🇺🇸 United States43.5%

🇮🇪 Ireland30.4%

🇬🇧 United Kingdom26.1%

Top 3 markets shown

Patent intelligence

$6M patent portfolio · 14 active families

Estimated portfolio value

$6M

0.72% of market cap · 15.8× smaller than top peer Ypsomed ($95M)

14 active patent families

Where SmileDirectClub innovates Biomedical engineeringDental archDental impressionDentistryDentition

Where SmileDirectClub concentrates vs peers

Each axis is a top-10 topic across SmileDirectClub and its closest peers. #1 = 100, #10 = 10, absent = 0.

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Source: Dealroom Patent Intelligence · Patsnap. Request a demo for the full per-sub-category breakdown, individual records, and quality-score history.

Market sentiment

What the market is saying about SmileDirectClub

An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about SmileDirectClub on X over the past 7 days. We rank by likes & retweets, ignore corporate channels, and surface the themes that broke out from real people.

Reading the room on X — pulling top posts and synthesizing themes…

Source: X recent search ranked by engagement (likes + retweets) · Synthesis by Claude · Cached for 1 hour

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