Kaltura

Kaltura was founded in the fall of 2006 and was launched at the TechCrunch40 industry event in San Francisco on September 18, 2007, and won the People's Choice award based on a vote of the conference's attendees.[6] At that time, the company had 20 employees, and had received $2.1 million in funding from business angels and Californian VC fund Avalon Ventures.[6]

On December 21, 2007, Kaltura won the People's Choice award (over 250,000 users participated in voting) in the Video Sharing category for the Mashable Open Web Awards.[7] Also in 2007, Kaltura began a partnership with the New York Public Library, whose team was headed by Joshua Greenberg. In 2008, Kaltura was selected as one of the "Global 250 Winners" by AlwaysOn.[8] Kaltura CEO and cofounder Ron Yekutiel was photographed for the article "The Suit, Vers. 3.0" in Esquire's July 2008 edition.[9]

In January 2008, the Wikimedia Foundation and Kaltura announced that they had begun a collaboration aimed at bringing rich-media collaboration to Wikipedia and other wiki websites.[10] The technology behind this project is a form of video-wiki software (of open source purport) that was integrated into the MediaWiki platform as an extension, allowing users to add collaborative video players that enable all users to add and edit images, sounds, diagrams, animations and movies in the same manner as they do today with text.

Kaltura was a sponsor of the Wikimania 2008 event, where it announced that it is sponsoring Michael Dale, an open source video developer, to support the further development of a 100% open source video editing solution integrated into MediaWiki.[11] Kaltura is also a founder of the Open Video Alliance, a group of organizations, academics, artists and entrepreneurs, geared towards promoting open standards for video on the web.

In May 2014 Kaltura purchased Tvinci for its over-the-top (OTT) TV service.[12] In August 2016, Kaltura announced that it had raised $50 million from Goldman Sachs.[13] In 2017 a collaboration with a cloud based Unified Communications solution nominated from Gartner Inc. as Cool Vendor in Unified Communications, 2017[14][15] was announced.[16][17] In December 2017, Kaltura had 450 employees.[18] In 2019 Kaltura crossed $100 million in annual recurring revenues (ARR).[19]

In April 2019 Kaltura announced its intention to develop Cloud TV with Dativa through a dedicated data lake.[20][21]

In early 2020 Kaltura announced its acquisition of Newrow, a platform for collaborative online meetings.[22]

Kaltura is managed by Chairman, CEO and Co-Founder Ron Yekutiel. Other key executives are:[23]

• Shay David, President, General Manager, Media & Telecom and Co-Founder
• Michal Tsur, President, General Manager, Enterprise & Learning and Co-Founder
• Sergei Liakhovetsky, Chief Technology Officer
• Yaron Garmazi, Chief Financial Officer
• Sigal Srur, Chief Human Resources Officer
• Ido Wiesenberg, Senior Vice President, Corporate Development
• Yehiam Shinder, Chief Information Officer

Kaltura's original concept was built on the collaborative Wiki model that uses media rather than text. Over time, the company changed its focus to providing a broad video platform as a service, as well as many turnkey SaaS products. Kaltura's products today include a Video Platform as a Service (VPaaS), an OTT TV (cloud TV) Platform, a video player, a mobile video player SDK,[24] a Webcasting platform, a Lecture Capture offering, a Video Management Platform, a Video Portal (CorporateTube) product, a WordPress plugin, a Drupal video module, a Blackboard Video Building Block, a Moodle Video Extension, a Sharepoint Video Webpart, a Canvas Extension, a Brightspace Video Extension, a Sakai Extension, and Ruby and PHP, and .NET frameworks.

Kaltura systems have been deployed in the UK Parliament`s online audio-video streams.