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Brighter

Brighter is a Santa Monica, California digital health technology company founded in 2010 by internet entrepreneur Jake Winebaum that built a consumer-driven dental benefits platform connecting dentists, patients, and dental insurers. Brighter licensed digital engagement solutions to insurance carriers, including online and mobile provider directories, patient reviews, and its proprietary Brighter Schedule online appointment scheduling feature, along with the Brighter PRO self-insured dental plan launched in 2014. Its platform powered member-engagement tools for major dental insurers including Cigna, Delta Dental, and Aetna. Backed by roughly $49M from General Catalyst, Mayfield, Benchmark, DAG Ventures, and Tenaya Capital, Brighter was acquired by Cigna in December 2017 and its technology folded into Cigna's digital health offerings. The brand persists as a Cigna dental provider experience.

Brighter is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Healthcare, Dental, Health Insurance, and Digital Health.

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scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
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CompanyHealthcareDentalHealth InsuranceDigital HealthBenefitsAppointment SchedulingProvider Directory

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Composite quality — 7.7/100 · minimal
Contract Quality 0.0 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 0.0 / 20
Commercial Clarity 0.0 / 20
Operational Transparency 0.0 / 13
Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 6.8 / 10
Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only
Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 0 / 15
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3
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Security Posture 1

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Brighter Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Resources

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity
DomainSecurity

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Website
Website
 Crunchbase
Crunchbase

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Wikipedia
Wikipedia

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: brighter
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  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
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  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/brighter.png
name: Brighter
description: Brighter is a Santa Monica, California digital health technology company founded in 2010 by internet entrepreneur
  Jake Winebaum that built a consumer-driven dental benefits platform connecting dentists, patients, and dental insurers.
  Brighter licensed digital engagement solutions to insurance carriers, including online and mobile provider directories,
  patient reviews, and its proprietary Brighter Schedule online appointment scheduling feature, along with the Brighter PRO
  self-insured dental plan launched in 2014. Its platform powered member-engagement tools for major dental insurers including
  Cigna, Delta Dental, and Aetna. Backed by roughly $49M from General Catalyst, Mayfield, Benchmark, DAG Ventures, and Tenaya
  Capital, Brighter was acquired by Cigna in December 2017 and its technology folded into Cigna's digital health offerings.
  The brand persists as a Cigna dental provider experience.
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x-status: acquired
x-acquired-by: cigna
x-acquired-date: 2017-12
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
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tags:
- Company
- Healthcare
- Dental
- Health Insurance
- Digital Health
- Benefits
- Appointment Scheduling
- Provider Directory
apis: []
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- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/brighter-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://brighter.com
- type: Wikipedia
  url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brighter
- type: Crunchbase
  url: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/brighter
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
  pass: local-v1
  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence