Kaltura

Kaltura was founded in 2006 and is headquartered in New York, with significant R&D operations in Israel. The company provides a SaaS video platform — enabling enterprises, educational institutions, and media companies to create, manage, host, and monetize video content. Kaltura went public on NASDAQ under the ticker KLTR in September 2021.

Kaltura's primary offering is an open-source-rooted, cloud-based video platform sold under the brand Kaltura Video Cloud. The platform addresses the need for scalable video infrastructure across live streaming, on-demand content, video-based learning management, and virtual events. Its buyers are predominantly enterprise IT and learning & development teams, higher-education institutions, and media companies. The product is sold through enterprise sales contracts, and the company has historically positioned itself as a more open and customizable alternative to closed proprietary video platforms. Kaltura's technical foundation includes an open-source video management core that has been extended into a commercial cloud offering, giving institutional customers the ability to self-host or use the managed cloud.

Kaltura's main product lines include Kaltura Video Portal (enterprise video management), Kaltura Meetings (interactive video collaboration), Kaltura Virtual Events (virtual and hybrid event hosting), and Kaltura Learning Management integrations used widely in higher education alongside LMS platforms such as Canvas, Moodle, and Blackboard. The company has held SOC 2 compliance certifications relevant to its enterprise and education customers.

Kaltura competes with Panopto in the enterprise and education video management space, with Brightcove in the media and enterprise video hosting space, and with Vimeo in parts of the corporate video segment. The company targets large universities and enterprises that require deep integration flexibility and data ownership, distinguishing itself from more consumer-oriented platforms. Kaltura's post-IPO period on NASDAQ has been marked by significant stock price decline from its offering price, a pattern shared broadly with SaaS companies that went public in 2021.

Kaltura's R&D center is based in Tel Aviv. The Israeli office houses a substantial portion of the company's engineering and product teams. The founders include Ron Yekutiel, who has served as CEO, and Michal Tsur, Shay David, and Eran Etam — all Israeli. The company's roots are firmly in Israeli tech entrepreneurship, and R&D leadership has historically been concentrated in Tel Aviv.