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Shaju Puthussery

Co-founder & CEO, Lightspun. On 1 show, 1 appearance. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.

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He is the CEO and co-founder of Lightspun, an AI platform modernizing dental insurance administration and provider credentialing. Prior to Lightspun, he served as the first employee and Chief Operating Officer of dental AI company Overjet.

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Everything Shaju Puthussery said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.

Lightspun aims to cut healthcare admin costs to 3–5 cents per dollar
“So our goal is to reduce that 20 cents to maybe five cents, three cents using technology, using innovation, using AI.”
Shaju Puthussery Aug 4, 2026 ▶ 3:56 Reinventing Insurance Through AI with Shaju Puthussery & Deepak Ramaswamy of Lightspun
INNOVATORS & INVESTORS Assertion Not checkable as stated
Puthussery: Lightspun uses AI to cut dentist onboarding from months to days
“The core problem of credentialing or onboarding a new dentist after a graduation, or Getting that dentist to a pair's network took 60 to 120 days. We were able to do within a few days because of the automation and AI co-working on our platform.”
Shaju Puthussery Aug 4, 2026 ▶ 9:56 Reinventing Insurance Through AI with Shaju Puthussery & Deepak Ramaswamy of Lightspun
INNOVATORS & INVESTORS Assertion Supported
Puthussery: Roughly 20 cents of every healthcare dollar goes to administration
“If you think about every dollar that you spend today, around 20 cents is spent on administration, which means only 80 cents goes to the care that produces a good outcome.”
Shaju Puthussery Aug 4, 2026 ▶ 3:47 Reinventing Insurance Through AI with Shaju Puthussery & Deepak Ramaswamy of Lightspun
INNOVATORS & INVESTORS Assertion Supported
Puthussery: Lightspun has platform visibility into nearly 200k ADA dentists
“We have ADA, which is American Dental Association, which every dentist in United, almost every dentist in the United States is part of that, and we were able to get that larger, close to 200,000 dentists visibility as a part of the platform”
Shaju Puthussery Aug 4, 2026 ▶ 9:56 Reinventing Insurance Through AI with Shaju Puthussery & Deepak Ramaswamy of Lightspun

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