CoMaster

What CoMaster does

CoMaster is a Netherlands-based private company founded in 2021 that produces free short educational videos and animations summarizing basic medical knowledge for medical students preparing for clinical rotations in Dutch hospitals. The company serves a horizontal audience of medical students as its primary segment, with secondary reach into healthcare professionals and B2B medical departments. Content is created by a multidisciplinary team of doctors, residents, nurses, PhD students, and medical interns, then validated through a strict three-stage review process before publication. The videos are distributed directly through the comaster.nl website and amplified via organic social media and presentations to healthcare institutions.

The underlying technology is an educational video platform featuring short-form videos and animated storytelling, produced with an in-house film crew and the animation partner Phil & Flo. CoMaster's content library is built on top of a strategic partnership with Compendium Geneeskunde, a publisher whose book series covers all 35 disciplines of the Dutch Medical Rotation. CoMaster offers three primary products: free Educational Medical Videos (the core product), the paid Inclusive Communication Program (B2B training for medical departments), and Presentations & Talks (awareness services). The free tier functions as a community- and content-led top-of-funnel acquisition channel, while the Inclusive Communication Program represents the company's primary monetized, multi-year-contract offering.

CoMaster's business model is a hybrid of freemium content and professional services. The core video content is provided free of charge to consumers, while revenue is intended to be generated through paid B2B training engagements with hospital departments and fee-based speaking engagements. The company is founder-controlled, with no disclosed institutional investors, funding rounds, or M&A activity. Operations are single-country (Netherlands), with no geographic expansion signals beyond the domestic market. Customer base is highly distributed (individual medical students and a small set of hospital departments), with no named enterprise logos in the source material.

Name

CoMaster

Legal name

CoMaster

Website

https://comaster.nl

Company type

Private

Founded year

2021

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

CoMaster is a Netherlands-based company founded in 2021 that produces free short educational videos and animations summarizing basic medical knowledge for medical students preparing for clinical rotations in Dutch hospitals, with a paid B2B Inclusive Communication Program sold to medical departments.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Medical Education

NAICS

Educational Support Services (61171), Professional and Management Development Training (611430), Exam Preparation and Tutoring (611691)

SIC

Services-Motion Picture & Video Tape Production (7812)

akta.pro primary industry

Medicine & Allied Health (Clinical) (EDAGABAG)

akta.pro secondary industries

Healthcare & Clinical Professional Development (CME/CE) (EDAGANAJ), Medical & Clinical Reference (Physicians, Nursing, Allied Health) (EDAGAGAA), Healthcare Clinical Professions (CME/CE for Nurses, Allied Health, Pharmacy) (EDAAALAC)

Keywords

• Medical education videos
• Clinical training content
• Healthcare communication training
• Medical residency preparation
• Educational video production

Headquarters

HQ city

Amsterdam

HQ country

Netherlands

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Operations

Revenue model

1. Free Medical Education Content: CoMaster provides free short educational videos covering basic medical knowledge for medical students preparing for rotations in Dutch hospitals. This serves as their primary user acquisition channel.
2. Inclusive Communication Program: The inclusive communication program is offered to medical departments for a fee, training teachers to deliver intervision-type education independently.
3. Presentations & Talks: CoMaster offers presentations and talks to raise awareness of their core values, available for booking by organizations.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

CoMaster produces free short educational videos and animations summarizing basic medical knowledge for medical students preparing for clinical rotations in Dutch hospitals. Content covers all 35 disciplines of the Medical Rotation in the Netherlands and is developed by a team of doctors, residents, nurses, and students through a strict three-stage review process. The company also offers a paid Inclusive Communication Program to medical departments that trains teachers to deliver intervision-type education independently, along with presentations and talks on healthcare communication, diversity, and clinical reasoning.

Product overview

CoMaster operates as a single unified platform offering free medical education content for Dutch medical students. The portfolio consists of three interconnected offerings: (1) Educational Medical Videos — the core free product providing short video summaries of basic medical knowledge for internship preparation; (2) Inclusive Communication Program — a paid training service for medical departments and teachers on healthcare communication; and (3) Presentations & Talks — awareness-raising sessions on core values. Content is developed by a multidisciplinary team of medical professionals and produced with professional film and animation partners.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Educational Medical Videos

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature3 records

Partnerships

Two partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• Compendium GeneeskundecoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerMain partner who has built an archive of medical knowledge covering all 35 disciplines of the Medical Rotation in the Netherlands. They offer book series, pocket versions per discipline, tear-off calendars and more. Together with CoMaster, they plan to innovate and digitalize medical education content.
• Phil & FlocoreTechnology or IntegrationCreative animation partner that adds animated storytelling to CoMaster's medical education videos. Phil & Flo is a professional animation company that helps bring medical content to life through visual storytelling.

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Lecturio: Lecturio offers a comprehensive medical education platform with video lectures, question banks, and exam prep for medical students and healthcare professionals. It is a direct competitor in the curriculum-aligned video learning category.
• Picmonic: Picmonic uses story-based visual learning and animated videos to support medical, nursing, and pharmacy students with long-term retention. It is comparable to CoMaster's animated storytelling approach for medical student learning.
• Osmosis (Elsevier): Osmosis, now part of Elsevier, produces animated medical education videos used by medical, nursing, and health science students worldwide. It is a direct competitor in animated clinical reasoning video content, with greater scale and an established international footprint.
• Kenhub: Kenhub provides anatomy and histology-focused video learning and quizzes for medical and healthcare students. It is a comparable peer in specialty-prioritized medical education video content for students preparing for clinical rotations.
• Medmastery: Medmastery produces high-quality clinical reasoning video courses for healthcare professionals and students, covering a wide range of specialties. It is comparable in curating clinical and rotation-relevant content for medical professionals.
• AMBOSS: AMBOSS provides a clinical knowledge and exam-prep platform for medical students and clinicians, with curriculum-aligned content and a decision-support tool used in hospitals. It directly competes with CoMaster in the medical education video/knowledge category, though at much larger scale and across multiple geographies.

Emerging players

• Radiopaedia: Radiopaedia is a free, open-edit radiology reference and learning resource, including video cases and educational content for radiologists and students. It is comparable in offering free, structured medical education content, but specialized in radiology.
• Ninja Nerd: Ninja Nerd produces detailed, long-form medical education videos covering physiology, pathology, and clinical medicine for students and professionals. It overlaps with CoMaster's animated, narrative-driven medical education videos, though at a different scale and format.
• Teach Me Anatomy: Teach Me Anatomy provides illustrated and integrated anatomy education content, including articles, videos, and quizzes widely used by medical students. It overlaps with CoMaster's student-focused medical education content, though it is more anatomy-specific.

Others

• Studocu: Studocu is a student-driven learning platform hosting study notes, summaries, and shared course materials used by university students across Europe. It is adjacent to CoMaster as a student-to-student knowledge sharing platform, though not a direct medical education competitor.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/comasterondw
• Facebookfacebook.com/comasteronderwijs
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/comasteronderwijs

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles3 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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