78%
of the dental benefit goes unused: only 21.6 in every 100 scheme members see a dentist each year.
Source: CMS 2024, Table 14
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Back us to deliver beautiful smiles.
A clinician-led South African dental group, already backed by banks, development funders and investors.
Why dentistry
Dentistry runs on preventative care, and medical aids pay for it.
Check-ups, cleans and x-rays are funded by medical aids at every life stage. Most of that benefit goes unused.
9.1 million
South Africans are on a medical scheme.
Source: CMS 2024/25
US$1.2bn
a year lost to oral disease in South Africa.
Source: WHO 2022
1 per 447,000
One orthodontist per 447,000 people.
Source: Bhayat and Chikte 2018
12
branches: no dental group we could verify has more than that.
Our own market review
A paid-for benefit that nobody collects is the opportunity.
Four engines
Four engines that earn, and feed each other.
Mobile clinics
Patient and scheme fees per visit
Recurring every six months. A profitable funnel into the rest of the group.
Fixed practices
Patient and scheme fees at each practice
Mobile referrals fill the chairs, and the group is worth more than the sum of its practices.
Aligners
Sales to dentists and practices
Every trained dentist is a new channel, and an upsell for mobile and practice patients.
Dental lab
Work for our own practices and partner dentists
Guaranteed volume from our own chairs.
Mobile clinics are the outreach. Our practices and aligners are the in-chair care. The lab sits behind them. That is the full scope a dentist is trained for, run at scale.
Who backs us
Backed by banks, development funders and equity investors.
Equity: Anza, Savant. Debt: Bidvest Bank, Vumela (Edge Growth), SEDFA. Banking partner: FNB.
Equity
Anza Capital
Equity investor, backing Mia in two stages.
Savant Venture Fund
Mia’s first institutional equity investor.
Debt funders
Bidvest Bank
Our first institutional funder, behind our first mobile clinics and fleet since 2023.
Vumela (Edge Growth)
Growth funding committed.
SEDFA
A development finance facility for our mobile clinic network, with three clinics funded so far.
Banking partner
FNB
Banking partner.
Registered with and recognised by
DEO
Dental Entrepreneur Organisation
Mia is a member of the DEO.
SADA
South African Dental Association.
Health Professions Council of South Africa
Our dentists are registered with the HPCSA.
The team
Run by clinicians who also run the numbers.
Dr Zane Stenning
Co-founder, CEO
Dr Karishma Soni
Co-founder, Chief Dental Officer
Dylan Gons
Head of acquisitions
Tyler Stenning
COO
ML
Mark Lakis
Board Advisor through the DEO
LL
Lize Lubbe CA(SA)
Group finance lead
Use of capital
What your capital does.
We are raising to buy and grow dental practices, put more mobile clinics on the road, and build the technology and team behind them. Every rand is measured against one goal: one million South Africans cared for by 2031.
State of the art patient care
Modern clinical equipment and protocols in every chair, so more South Africans get excellent preventative care.
Infrastructure
More clinics on the road and more practices in the group.
Technology and AI
An AI tech stack that runs the whole business.
People
Clinicians and the team behind them.
Effort
One WhatsApp to Zane.
He replies himself, sends the short deck, and sets up a call with the team.
Time
This week.
Message today and we will set up the first conversation this week.
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