Osmosis provides supplemental educational videos, quizzes, flashcards and a recommendation engine that uses spaced-repetition and contextual recommendations to improve knowledge retention. The platform hosts a library of over 1,100 videos produced by the former Khan Academy Health and Medicine team and has over one million YouTube subscribers and 500,000 registered users. Users can upload course documents to receive tailored video, quiz and flashcard recommendations. The company is promoting initiatives such as Care for Caregivers and an interactive feature that shows who else is online and learning globally. Co‑founders Shiv Gaglani and Ryan Haynes met at Johns Hopkins and began working on the business full time in 2016. Osmosis says it will use funds to increase reach within core health professional student markets and to expand into related allied health fields, with a stated goal to educate more than one billion clinicians and caregivers by 2025. Osmosis is a health education platform founded by Johns Hopkins medical students and based in Baltimore. The company produces illustrated videos, study tools such as flashcards and question banks, and has also released print books. Over the last year its video library grew from about 450 to more than 1,000 titles, and its content has accumulated 50 million views to date. Osmosis reports 350,000 active users and an 850,000-user audience on its YouTube channel; its paid "Prime" subscription is used in more than two dozen health professional schools. The company has expanded its print offerings and credits growth to content sharing network effects and deeper topical coverage. CEO Shiv Gaglani operates from Baltimore with a small local team and a larger remote team of full-time employees and contractors. Osmosis provides a personalized learning platform for medical and health professionals that helps users organize study plans, offers concept cards, flashcards and videos, and automatically recommends related course material. The company also produces animated medical-education videos distributed widely on Wikipedia and YouTube; its video team includes former Khan Academy Medicine members. Cofounders Shiv Gaglani and Ryan Haynes developed the product while medical students at Johns Hopkins and state the company’s mission is to provide clinicians the best education so they can provide the best care. Osmosis says it reaches about 300,000 people and has a distributed team of roughly 25 employees, with plans to grow its Maryland presence. The startup has participated in the Dreamit Health accelerator and won the Milken‑Penn Graduate School of Education Business Plan Competition in 2014. It has received support from individual investors and recent funding to support growth. Osmosis is a Philadelphia-based start-up that offers a learning app aimed at the medical community. The company's core product is a digital learning application designed for medical learners and professionals. At the 2014 Milken-Penn GSE Education Business Plan Competition, Osmosis won two prizes totaling $50,000: the Milken Family Foundation first prize ($25,000) and the American Public University System Prize for Innovation in Online Education ($25,000). As a finalist, Osmosis and other competitors were invited to participate in the Education Design Studio, Inc., a $2.1 million hybrid incubator-seed fund launched in fall 2013 in collaboration with Penn GSE. The competition is framed to connect early-stage education ventures with investors and researchers in educational innovation.

Total raised

$7M

Funding rounds

4

Latest round

Equity

Latest activity

Jun 2019