Osmosis
| Private | |
| ISIN | 🆔 |
| Industry | Healthcare Education |
| Founded 📆 | 2015 |
| Founders 👔 | Shiv Gaglani (CEO) Ryan Haynes (CTO) |
| Headquarters 🏙️ | , Remote |
Area served 🗺️ | |
Key people | Shiv Gaglani Ryan Haynes Rishi Desai |
| Products 📟 | Online learning |
| Members | |
Number of employees | 55 (2020) |
| 🌐 Website | www |
| 📇 Address | |
| 📞 telephone | |
Osmosis - Knowledge Diffusion Inc., known as Osmosis.org, is a medical and health science education technology company designed for clinicians and caregivers. Osmosis educates subscribers about health through a social learning platform. The platform has a user base of over 20 million people across six continents.[1]
History[edit]
In 2011, Shiv Gaglani and Ryan Haynes developed the idea for Osmosis while still medical students at Johns Hopkins University.[2] Gaglani and Haynes shared concerns about the inefficiency of “cram-and forget” learning cycles and long-term retention of information.[3]
In January 2012, Gaglani and Haynes began crowdsourcing questions from fellow medical students to create a question bank for student use in classes and board exams.[3][4]
In 2013, Gaglani and Haynes took a leave of absence from Johns Hopkins to focus on Osmosis full-time. They completed a program with DreamIt Ventures, a technology incubator in Philadelphia, PA, and received $50,000 in seed funding for Osmosis.[5][6]
In 2014, Osmosis received a $150,000 grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) to create additional questions for its library and to make the platform accessible to a global audience of clinical students.[7]
Rishi Desai, the former head of health and medicine at Khan Academy, joined Osmosis as chief medical officer in October 2015. Osmosis also hired a team of video producers who previously worked with the Khan Academy to begin creating short, explanatory animated videos on various medical and health subjects. More than 150 videos were produced in 2016 and over 1,600 videos have been shot in total.[8]
Osmosis works with more than 100 universities and institutions and over 20 million people on six continents.[1] Gaglani has stated a goal of reaching one billion people by 2025.[1]
Learning and resource platform[edit]
Library[edit]
The Osmosis Resource Library covers over 3,000 medical topics in video form for both its web and mobile-based platform.
The Library helps medical and allied health professional students by including content such as Anatomy, Genetics, and Immunology, along with study tools and other resources.
Topics include:
- Medicine (MD)
- Medicine (DO)
- Medicine (MBBS)
- Physician Assistant (PA)
- Nurse Practitioner (NP)
- Registered Nursing (RN)
- Dentistry
- Pharmacy
- Other Healthcare Professionals
Diffusion Studios[edit]
Diffusion Studios is the animation studio division of Osmosis. The studio works with organizations to create animated videos.[9]
Raise the Line[edit]
Gaglani and Desai host Raise the Line, a podcast and video series Osmosis launched in April 2020.[10] The series discusses how to strengthen the capacity of healthcare. Guests have included Arianna Huffington, former CDC director Tom Freiden, Dan Rosensweig of Chegg, CDC deputy director Anne Schuchat, and Patrice Harris of the American Medical Association.
Funding[edit]
In 2019, Osmosis closed a $4 million Series A round of venture capital funding led by Felicis Ventures.[11]
Previous Osmosis investors from the seed round, including Greycroft, Coverys, FundRx, Figure 8, Social Starts, and LearnStart, contributed to the Series A round.[12]
Partnerships[edit]
Osmosis partners with organizations, academic institutions, and healthcare providers to raise awareness about health and medicine-related subjects. Past partnerships include Kaiser Permanente, the National Organization for Rare Disorders (NORD), and New York University.
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Raise the Line". Harvard Business School - Alumni. 2020-04-09. Retrieved 2020-08-03. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Ongchoco, David (2016-03-21). "Startup Insider: Why These Johns Hopkins Med School Students Left School to Reinvent Med Education". HuffPost. Retrieved 2020-08-03. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ 3.0 3.1 Williams, Shawna. "Shiv Gaglani and Ryan Haynes on Designing a Learning Tool". Johns Hopkins Medicine. Retrieved 2020-08-03. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Osmosis Co-Founders Ryan Haynes and Shiv Gaglani • Student Doctor Network". Student Doctor Network. 2017-07-05. Retrieved 2020-08-03.
- ↑ Jonah, Comstock (2013-04-04). "New incubator DreamIt Health launches first class". MobiHealthNews. Retrieved 2020-08-03. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Key, Peter (2013-08-13). "Company's app helps med students learn by Osmosis". Philadelphia Business Journal. Retrieved 2020-08-03. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Another Step Toward Open Health Education". RWJF. 2014-05-22. Retrieved 2020-08-03.
- ↑ "This Founder Left Med School to Build a Subscriber-Based Study Platform. It Paid Off". Grow Wire. Retrieved 2020-08-03.
- ↑ "Diffusion Studios: Create Osmosis-Style Videos for Your Organization - Osmosis - A Better Way To Learn". Osmosis. Retrieved 2020-08-03.
- ↑ Dudley, Joshua. "Q&A: Dr. Rishi Desai Talks To Medical Professionals About What We Can Learn From COVID-19". Forbes. Retrieved 2020-08-03.
- ↑ "Osmosis". Crunchbase. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Shieber, Jonathan (2019-06-11). "Providing supplemental educational videos for healthcare online nets Osmosis $4 million". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2020-08-03. Unknown parameter
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