Episode 51 - Conversation with Samantha Strain | HealthStream Ventures

Scott and Jinesh chat with Samantha Strain, Partner and CDO and HealthStream Ventures and Cofounder of DoubleMint about all things M&A in the dental space. They discuss Sam's journey from distributor regional rep to healthcare lending to facilitating the purchase of dental practices. Sam shares her thoughts on the market opportunity from the buy side perspective, and then dives deep on changes in the dental practice market over the past 5 years, and the change in mentality of both sellers and buyers.  Sam wraps by sharing about her venture investing activity, and impressive female founders in the dental tech space.    2:24 Introducing Sam Strain 4:15 Sam's journey through dental 19:58 Early relationships mature to BD opportunity 26:21 Low-hanging opportunity in dental practices 29:44 Dentists don't learn business and management in school 34:18 Change in the dental practice market in the past 5 years 39:05 DSOs going public? 44:34 Venture investing via DoubleMint 54:12 Female founders in dental