Cara Capital is built for the leaders shaping dentistry’s future. Direct access to the ventures, founders, and breakthrough companies defining whole person health.
Feb 25–27, 2027 — Chicago Midwinter — See the event →Cara Capital is a venture fund of funds. In partnership with Marram Ventures, an investment firm combining capital, technology, and care innovation, we give oral health leaders access to investments that have historically been available only to large institutions.
“Cara Capital exists to expand access to healthcare innovation, investment opportunities, and wealth creation for women leaders in oral healthcare—building the gateway where care convergence, capital, and leadership intersect.”
Membership in the Cara community means direct access to the opportunities, relationships, and information that historically only large institutions have enjoyed.
Access to venture and private-market opportunities that have historically been reserved for the largest institutional allocators.
Enter a curated community of clinicians, DSO leaders, PE professionals, and operators — already at the table together.
Speak at Cara programming, contribute to research, and help shape the care convergence conversation in oral health.
Board seats, advisory roles, executive placements, and pathways into healthcare companies that rarely surface publicly.
Meet and back women building the next generation of oral-health companies — through pitch days, mentorship, and follow-on capital.
Go beyond writing a check. Engage directly with founders, attend pitch sessions, and build a genuine understanding of venture, guided by operators inside oral health.
Join a growing community of investors, clinicians, DSO leaders, and PE professionals united by a shared commitment to advancing care convergence.
We back a select group of innovative oral health companies — the products, platforms, and technologies defining the next generation of care.
The science is settled. Oral health is clinically linked to cardiovascular disease, diabetes, Alzheimer’s, and maternal health. The investment infrastructure is just getting started.
Clinical consensus links oral health to the body’s most costly conditions. Capital is just starting to follow.
As DSO platforms scale, demand for integrated technology and patient-centered solutions is accelerating.
Most investors have never been given a clear path into oral health venture. Cara Capital opens that door.
Oral health VC remains dramatically underfunded relative to its impact. Early movers hold asymmetric upside.
Board member of a BlackRock Impact Opportunities Fund portfolio company. Entrepreneur and healthcare investor.
Fortune 20 executive and healthcare investor with multiple successful exits across several funds.
DSO C-level leader, board member, and investor. Part of a team that executed a successful exit to KKR.
Chief Clinical Officer, Emerging Dental and Orthodontic Group. Harvard-trained orthodontist and angel investor.
CEO of Ascend Point. Former McKinsey brand strategist with a Shark Tank deal with Robert Herjavec.
Founder of NOVA Pediatric Dentistry, founding partner of Lightwave Dental. Harvard-trained pediatric dentist.
Chief Operating and Clinical Officer, United Dental Partners. Leader in scaling multi-site dental platforms.
CEO of Re-Vive Dental. Whole person dentistry pioneer, featured on the cover of Dentistry Today.
Founder of Sanders Board Preparatory. Published author and sought-after speaker in dental education.
A private networking event for women in dentistry during the Chicago Dental Society Midwinter Meeting. Invite only. Details coming soon.