About Us

We saw broken tools. So we built better ones.

Cavitech was founded on a simple belief — dentists deserve tools as sharp as their skills. We're building the AI platform that finally delivers.

Secunda, South Africa · Founded 2024
Dr Stefan Pretorius and Ruan Baker, Cavitech AI co-founders
Co-Founders
Secunda, SA
Our Story

One saw the opportunity. The other lived the problem.

Ruan came from software and has been building AI powered platforms at scale for the last 4 years. When he looked at dental technology, he saw an industry stuck in the past: fragmented tools, manual workflows, and zero to little AI adoption in SA and also with only 3 main competitors in the world.

He approached Stefan, a practicing dentist in Secunda who'd spent years fighting the same broken systems. Stefan didn't need convincing, he'd been waiting for someone to build what the industry actually needed as they started building smaller solutions first that Stefan identified there was a need for and then decided to go all in and built the one complete tool all dentists need — Cavitech AI.

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Dr Stefan PretoriusCo-Founder & CEO
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Ruan BakerCo-Founder & CTO
The Team

The people behind the platform.

Engineering · Clinical · Design
Cape Town · Secunda · Remote
Dr Stefan Pretorius portrait
Dr Stefan PretoriusCo-Founder & CEOB.Ch.D (Pret) · PG.DipDent | Restorative & Aesthetic Dentistry
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Ruan BakerCo-Founder & CTOAI Specialist
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Dr Léanca CoetzerShareholder & ClinicalB.Ch.D (Pret) · MSc. Dent (Pret) | Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery & Aesthetic Dentistry
Dr Chantelle van Graan portrait
Dr Chantelle van GraanShareholder & ClinicalB.Ch.D (UWC) · PG.Dip (Pret) | Implantology
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Prof. Chané SmitClinicalBChD (cum laude) · MSc: Maxillofacial and Oral Radiology (cum laude) · PhD
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Dr Quintin NorvalClinicalBSc · Hons. · BChD · MSc: Maxillofacial and Oral Radiology · PhD
Dr Lené Merbold portrait
Dr Lené MerboldClinicalBChD (Pret) · PGDipDent (Oral and Maxillofacial Radiology) · MSc (Oral and Maxillofacial Radiology)
Our Partners

Trusted by the people who's patients trust them.

We work alongside leading practices, dental groups, and suppliers to build software that fits the real world — not the other way around.

Clinical · Distribution · ChannelSouth Africa & United States
PearlVest Group
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Let's grow together.

Clinical validation, distribution, or integration — we're open to the right partnerships.

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