We're taking Toothpick to San Francisco

When the world's biggest names in AI start paying attention to healthcare.

Recognition rarely comes from inside an industry. It comes from adjacent ones deciding to pay attention. That's what just happened to Toothpick.

Toothpick has been accepted into the NVIDIA Inception Program, joining a global community of startups shaping the future of AI and accelerated computing. Not a long time afterwards, Toothpick competed and won the Startup World Cup Egypt Regional Competition at Techne Summit Alexandria 2026, coming out on top against some of the region's most promising startups.

Two signals, from very different worlds, pointing at the same thing: the infrastructure connecting healthcare, finance and technology is becoming a serious AI problem, not just a marketplace one.

The NVIDIA Inception milestone connects Toothpick to a global network of AI-focused startups as the company builds out its own AI capabilities.

The Techne Summit win is a marker of how far the model has traveled from its UAE roots, and a sign of the traction building across the wider region. It also earns Toothpick a place in the global finale in San Francisco, where it will compete against startups from around the world and put its name alongside Silicon Valley companies.

Next step is the global stage. We're taking Toothpick to San Francisco!

• For clinics & patients: the tools built on top of this recognition (data, automation, personalization) get better, faster.
• For partners: validation that Toothpick's technology stack is being taken seriously well beyond MENA and dental industry.
• For industry: another sign that automation & AI in healthcare is moving from hype to infrastructure.

We didn't set out to win recognition; we set out to fix a fragmented system. But when the AI and startup worlds start validating the approach, it tells you the direction is right.