Mia is a health-tech company revolutionizing dental care. We bring general dentistry to your doorstep and make orthodontics affordable with Mia Aligners.
Mia is an SA-owned, family-run dental-healthcare business, built and run by South African dentists, backed by the South African institutions most invested in the success of SA enterprises. The names on this page have committed capital, infrastructure and confidence to Mia's long-horizon compounding model. They're also the reason we can keep our promises to dentists, patients and communities.
Six SA institutions · one Mia hub · 100% South African
South African growth-capital partners that have committed equity to fund Mia's build across Aligners, Mobile Clinics, Practice Services and Group Operations.
Savant is a South African investment partner committed to backing SA businesses with long-term compounding potential, particularly those building defensible operating models in regulated industries. Their stake in Mia reflects a multi-year view on the dental-healthcare opportunity in South Africa.
Anza Capital is a South African growth-equity firm focused on backing healthcare and services businesses with strong unit economics, defensible operating models and clear scaling pathways. Anza's position in Mia underwrites the platform's next stage of expansion across the five verticals.
Edge Growth is South Africa's leading enterprise- and supplier-development partner, managing the Vumela Fund alongside FNB. Edge has deployed more than R-billions into SA small and medium businesses through Vumela and its sister funds. Mia is a Vumela Fund portfolio business.
South Africa's enterprise-development and SME finance partners, backing SA-owned, SA-built businesses with the depth and patience SA entrepreneurs actually need.
Edge Growth is South Africa's leading enterprise- and supplier-development partner, managing the Vumela Fund alongside FNB. Edge has deployed more than R-billions into SA small and medium businesses through Vumela and its sister funds. Mia is a Vumela Fund portfolio business.
Sedfa is the Small Enterprise Development Finance Agency: South Africa's consolidated state development finance institution backing small, medium and co-operative enterprises across the country. Sedfa's mandate is direct and indirect SME finance, business development support and the long-term success of SA enterprises.
South African banking partners providing structured finance, equipment financing, transactional banking and acquisition financing for the Mia practice-acquisition pipeline, the working-capital scaffolding behind Mia's multi-vertical operations and M&A path.
Bidvest Bank is part of the JSE-listed Bidvest Group, providing structured finance, equipment financing, transactional banking and acquisition financing for the Mia practice-acquisition pipeline. Bidvest underwrites both the clinical-equipment side of Mia's operations and the structured-deal side of the M&A path.
FNB is one of South Africa's leading banks, partnering with Mia across transactional banking, through the Vumela Fund (which FNB co-funds alongside Edge Growth), and through acquisition financing for the Mia practice-acquisition pipeline. FNB's long-term commitment to backing SA SMEs through Vumela and structured-deal lending is part of what made the Mia build possible.
Mia is not a foreign rollup. We're not a portfolio bet from a global wellness contractor. We're a South African family business, built by dentists who still treat patients, backed by South Africa's most credible institutional partners across growth capital, enterprise development and banking.
For dentists considering a Practice Services relationship, employers considering Mia at Work for their teams, or families considering Mia for their patients, the partners on this page are part of what makes our long-horizon promises credible. Patient capital, regulated counterparties, and SA-rooted institutional backing.
The capital on this page powers the broader Mia ecosystem, five connected verticals, one SA-owned company.
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Mia is backed by South African growth-capital partners including Vumela Fund (Edge Growth), Anza Capital, Bidvest Bank and FNB.
Mia is a connected South African dental ecosystem, aligners, mobile clinics, fixed practices, practice services and partner lab products, compounding across four commercial verticals.
Over $4.5M USD across a South African institutional ecosystem, growth capital, enterprise development and banking partners.
Vumela Fund, Anza Capital, Bidvest Bank, FNB, SEDFA, Savant and others, all SA-based and SA-rooted.
Four compounding verticals, aligners, Mia at Work mobile clinics, fixed practices and practice services, connected under one SA-owned ecosystem.
Yes. Use the contact options on this page or explore the Mia ecosystem from the homepage, leadership conversations are direct.
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