# About Neural Hive | Orthodontic AI Technology, Mumbai

> Neural Hive is a Mumbai-based orthodontic technology company, founded in 2022, building AI clear aligner planning, scanning and production tools worldwide.

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## Transforming Treatments

About Neural Hive
Neural Hive is your complete digital ecosystem for orthodontist-led clear aligner therapy
Neural Hive's core team includes practicing orthodontists, healthcare specialists, and AI/machine learning engineers, working alongside globally recognized researchers in AI and 3D image processing. Our founders bring over 15 years of experience building AI-driven companies — including ventures managing more than $20 billion in client portfolios across multiple industries.
Kea: our automated treatment planning platform, is a fully web-based, AI-powered clear aligner treatment planning platform that significantly cuts the time spent on manual case staging, delivering treatment plans in a fraction of the time of traditional workflows.
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## Our Promise

We don't chase automation for its own sake. We've designed tools that sharpen your judgment, shorten your cycles, and reward your mastery.
Neural Hive commits to three things:
First, doctor-led control over every stage of treatment planning.
Second, agile systems that adapt to biology — not the other way around.
Third, business clarity, where speed, precision, and cost-efficiency grow together instead of competing.

## What Makes Us Different

### Doctor consultation
Kea was built for how orthodontic treatment actually works. Most platforms weren't.

As Neural Hive's core planning tool, Kea gives orthodontists something the traditional model never prioritized: real control. Kea's transparent AI that shows its reasoning, not just its outputs. Agile staging that adapts as cases evolve. Real-time tools that keep decision-making exactly where it belongs — with the clinician closest to the case.

Traditional clear aligner platforms took a different path. They optimized for scale, and the clinician paid the price. Outsourced planning teams disconnected from the chair. Black-box algorithms that treat every case like a template. Workflows so rigid that when treatment shifts — and it always does — there's no good way to respond. You're left waiting on external teams to approve decisions you were trained to make years ago.

It's an inefficiency the industry normalized. Kea was built to end it.

### The practical difference:
Doctor explaining treatment
Reduced revision cycles, because you're planning with flexibility built in from day one. Faster turnarounds, because you're not stuck in approval queues. Outcomes that reflect your clinical judgment at every stage, not just at the start.

Because the future of clear aligner therapy isn't pre-planned by technicians. It's built by orthodontists who think, plan, and lead.

## Who We Are

### Dr. Shahvir Nooryezdan
Dr. Shahvir Nooryezdan has a distinguished 30 year career as a dental professional and successful entrepreneur
As a clinician had the opportunity to train at a multi center research institution in the UK with the inventor of dental impants while validating the success of dental implant related treatments in the late 1980’s
As an entrepreneur, due to his extensive experience with research & development, clinical trials and validations with several leading dental Implant manufacturers across the world, he was able to launch his own dental implant company : Equinox Medical Technologies in 2005 that was acquired by Straumann in 2016 and worked with Straumann India until the end of 2019
In 2022 Dr. Nooryezdan founded Neural Hive technologies that is a company focused on building AI driven solutions and Tech platforms for the healthcare industry

### Dr. Jignesh Kothari
Dr. Jignesh Kothari has a 20-year prolific career as a successful orthodontist specializing in digital workslow & invisible orthodontics
He is a pioneer in contemporary lingual braces in India and an entrepreneur who has developed the first ribbon arch stock bracket system in 2007-09: India’s first CAD-CAM lingual orthodontic appliance
He is the most experienced black diamond Invisalign provider in the country, and the first Indian Orthodontist to have his cases accepted for the International Invisalign global gallery
He was a global key opinion leader & Expert for Invisalign for a period of 7 years

### Rishikesh Sapre
Co-founder of Mantle Labs Limited & Geotree Limited – “Worlds Leading AI Powered Earth Observation Companies”.
He has completed Bachelors of engineering with a core focus in computer science from University of Mumbai.
Seasoned expert in the fields of Strategy, Business Development, AI, Predictive Analytics, Big Data
He has created AI based products in agriculture, banking, insurance, retail, telecom, energy, government and healthcare sectors.

### Swapnil Baokar
Co-founder of Mantle Labs Limited & Geotree Limited – “World’s Leading AI Powered Earth Observation Companies”.
He has completed his education with a focus in business information systems from the renowned University of Wolverhampton, UK
He is a serial entrepreneur with over 15 years of experience in risk management and financial markets. Strong experience in founding and scaling start-ups across Edu-tech, fintech and AgriTech.
His key projects include:  Handling fraud and surveillance for National Stock Exchange using streaming and offline AI pattern detection engines.