Osmosis, a startup created by medical students from Johns Hopkins and former Khan Academy Health team, has raised Series A to scale online health education to millions

Osmosis, a rapidly growing health platform created by medical students from Johns Hopkins and the former Khan Academy Health and Medicine team, has secured a Series A round of financing led by Felicis Ventures, known for investing in iconic companies including Fitbit, Shopify, and PluralSight. The total amount of the deal was not disclosed. Osmosis surpassed one million YouTube subscribers and 500,000 registered users last month.

Founded in 2016 by Ryan Haynes and Shiv Gaglani, the former Khan Academy Medicine team and Johns Hopkins medical students, Osmosis aims to provide your future clinicians the best education so that they can provide you the best care. Their popular videos are featured on Wikipedia, YouTube, Medscape/WebMD, the Washington Post, and many other outlets, and also contribute to the education & engagement of patients, family members, and the general public. Its learning platform also provides advanced content & features to current & future clinicians so that they can learn & retain more information.

35 million more healthcare professionals will need to be trained by 2030 to keep up with demand, due to the aging population worldwide. There are massive predicted shortages across nurses, primary care physicians, and other fields, as described in this recent TEDx talk about the company. To combat this crisis, Osmosis has already registered users in 100% of US, Canadian, Australian, and UK medical schools as well as confirmed users in over 1,500 other health professional schools, ranging from nursing and PA to dental and pharmacy.

“By reimagining medical education, Osmosis is addressing a critical impending global crisis: the need to develop and retrain tens of millions of healthcare professionals over the next decade to meet growing demand. With Khan Academy DNA and a deep-rooted empathy for this field, we believe this team is building the next iconic company at the intersection of health and education,” said Aydin Senkut, founder and managing partner at Felicis Ventures.

With follow-on investments from Greycroft, Coverys, FundRx, Figure 8, Social Starts, and LearnStart, and a new investment from SEI Ventures, this round of funding will be used to further expand Osmosis’ health content library of 1,300+ videos to reach more clinicians and caregivers and grow its partnerships from dozens to hundreds of institutions. Osmosis’s vision is to educate more than a billion clinicians and caregivers by 2025 through its best-in-class video library and learning platform.

“When I think about talent, I think about people first. Shiv is a groundbreaking entrepreneur. Education as a whole, specifically medical education, needs to change to alleviate the financial burdens and massive debt that’s crushing young students across America. As these same students are digitally-native, they want convenient, cost-effective and personalized tools for learning, and Osmosis provides exactly that,” said Alan Patricof, Founder and Managing Director of Greycroft.

“We are thrilled to have the support of incredible investors like Aydin and Alan as we build the most efficient and scalable learning platform for current and future health professionals,” said co-founder and CEO, Shiv Gaglani. “It’s particularly meaningful that this investment came as we crossed our first million subscribers on YouTube and are preparing to launch the Osmosis nursing and physician assistant offerings. We’ll be able to use the funds to increase our reach within our core health professional student markets as well as expand into related allied health fields.”