Giblib
Founded 2016 · 6 employees on LinkedIn · 8 known investors
GIBLIB is a streaming platform offering on-demand medical courses, lectures, and surgical case videos from academic medical institutions. It serves physicians, healthcare professionals, trainees, and students with an evidence-based educational content library, including CME options and features like transcriptions and notetaking.
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Company profile
researched Aug 2026GIBLIB operates a subscription video platform for medical education, providing on-demand courses, medical lectures and surgical case recordings produced with physicians at academic medical centers. Content is delivered through web video, mobile audio and virtual reality applications, and includes studio-quality footage captured in 4K and 360-degree virtual reality. Platform features include unlimited video access on paid plans, transcriptions, notetaking and playlists, commenting and messaging, video uploading and a beta ChatGPT-based search function.
The company pursues two content initiatives: assembling a large library of Continuing Medical Education (CME)-accredited lectures, positioned as an alternative to travelling to conferences to earn credits, and building a library of surgical procedures filmed in 4K and 360VR for students, trainees and practising surgeons. GIBLIB deliberately films the same procedure using different approaches, for example a laparoscopic version alongside a robot-assisted version of a gastrointestinal operation. Institutional customers access the platform via access codes or IP-address authentication, with onboarding resources provided for staff.
Founding story
GIBLIB was founded in 2015 by USC alumni Brian Conyer (CEO) and Jihye Shin, based on the premise that medical professionals would pay for curated, studio-quality educational video given that observation is the primary way surgeons learn new procedures and in-person access to leading surgeons is limited. USC was the first institution to work with the company; securing approvals to film the first surgery at the USC Keck School of Medicine took a year, while the second hospital partnership took two weeks.
Business model
GIBLIB sells subscriptions to individuals and discounted, customized site licences to institutions such as hospitals, medical schools and residency programs, with pricing based on organization size and selected features including the ability to earn AMA PRA Category 1 Credits.
Recurring subscription revenue. Individual plans include a free tier limited to five full video views per month and a Standard plan at $30 per month, billed $360 annually; neither of these listed plans includes CME. Medical students and residents receive a 50% discount on individual subscriptions, and institutions receive discounted group pricing.
Traction
By early 2019 the company reported filming regularly with six of the top 10 hospitals in the United States and cited a growing subscriber base whose demand for specialty procedures, including orthopedic surgery, outpaced its production capacity.
Latest developments
The platform currently offers free and $30-per-month Standard individual plans, institutional accounts with access-code and IP-based login, and a beta ChatGPT search feature.
▸Full profile — market position, technology, go-to-market, geography, history, risks & controversies
Market position
Described in press coverage as positioning itself as the "Netflix of medical education," with the stated goal of assembling the world's largest libraries of CME-accredited medical lectures and of surgical procedures in 4K and 360VR.
Studio-quality, curated video produced with physicians at leading academic medical centers, in contrast to earlier surgical videos that were hard to find and often filmed on cellphones or through instrument feeds; 360-degree virtual reality capture; and CME accreditation, including a digitally streamed gastrointestinal surgery course with Cedars-Sinai Medical Center reported as the first of its kind to be accredited as continuing education for medical professionals.
Technology
A streaming platform combining high-end video production with delivery via web video, mobile audio and virtual reality apps. Content is produced in 4K and 360-degree virtual reality, and platform features include transcriptions, notetaking, playlists and a beta ChatGPT-based search capability.
Go-to-market
Direct online self-service registration for individual free and paid plans, alongside an institutional sales motion using an information request form and customized pricing; content partnerships with academic medical centers both supply the library and support credibility, and the company has said new hospital partners approach it rather than the reverse.
Physicians, surgeons, other healthcare professionals, residents, trainees and medical students, plus institutional buyers including hospitals, medical schools and residency programs.
Geography
Headquartered in Los Angeles, California, with filming relationships at leading U.S. academic medical centers and subscribers among physicians internationally.
History
Founded in 2015, GIBLIB began with general surgery content and later added lectures. It partnered with doctors at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center on a digitally streamed gastrointestinal surgery course, launched a virtual reality app allowing physicians to observe operating rooms remotely, and raised $2.5 million in seed funding announced in 2019 to expand its online medical library and lecture series. The team initially skewed toward technology talent to build the streaming platform, then shifted emphasis toward content depth after finding users were more interested in content.
Risks & controversies
The company has cited supplying enough video to meet growing subscriber demand, particularly for specialty procedures, as a major operational challenge, and its CEO has emphasized cash-flow constraints for startups.
Compiled by commissioned research from 8 cited public sources — announcements, filings, and press listed under research sources below.
Key figures
latest reportedCompany-reported or press-reported figures, each dated to when it was claimed — not independently audited.
Timeline · 3
launches, deals, and filingsGIBLIB announced $2.5 million in seed funding, with participation from Mayo Clinic, Venture Reality Fund, Wavemaker 360, USC Marshall Venture Fund and Michelson 20MM, to enhance its offerings and expand its online medical library and lecture series.
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The company launched a virtual reality app allowing doctors to observe surgical rooms around the world for educational purposes, described in press coverage as the first of its kind.
GIBLIB partnered with doctors at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center to create a digitally streamed gastrointestinal surgery course, "Cedars-Sinai: The Essential GI Surgeries," reported as the first course of its kind to receive accreditation as continuing education for medical professionals.
Dated company events from announcements, filings, and press; legal rows summarize public dockets and regulator releases.
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Frequently asked questions
- What does Giblib do?
- GIBLIB is a medical education streaming platform offering on-demand lectures, surgical videos and CME credits.
- Who are Giblib's investors?
- Giblib's investors include Capria Ventures, Colopl Next, Wavemaker Three-Sixty Health.