Kaltura is a

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founded in 2006. Kaltura operates in four major markets:

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TV (that is, OTT) for operators and media companies,

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(OVP) offered mostly to media companies and brands looking to distribute content or monetize it, Education Video Platform (EdVP) offered to educational institutions, and Enterprise Video Platform (EVP) for collaboration, communications and marketing.

History

Early history

Kaltura was founded in the fall of 2006 and was launched at the

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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.Mark Hendrickson
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, September 18, 2007 At that time, the company had 20 employees, and had received $2.1 million in funding from

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s and Californian VC fund Avalon Ventures. 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

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Open Web Awards. Also in 2007, Kaltura began a partnership with the

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, whose team was headed by

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. In 2008, Kaltura was selected as one of the "Global 250 Winners" by AlwaysOn.''AO Global 250 Winners''
July 17, 2008 Kaltura CEO and cofounder Ron Yekutiel was photographed for the article "The Suit, Vers. 3.0" in ''

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s July 2008 edition. In January 2008, the

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and Kaltura announced that they had begun a collaboration aimed at bringing rich-media collaboration to

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and other wiki websites. The technology behind this project is a form of video-wiki software (of open source purport) that was integrated into the

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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

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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. 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.

Recent history

In July 2011, Kaltura Blackboard Inc. and Kaltura announced a partnership to integrate Kaltura's media solution in Blackboard Learn (TM). In May 2014 Kaltura purchased

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for its over-the-top (OTT) TV service. In August 2016, Kaltura announced that it had raised $50 million from Goldman Sachs. Also in 2016, Kaltura partnered with Inception, 24i Media,

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and

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to showcase OTT experiences. In 2017 a collaboration with a cloud based

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solution nominated from

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as ''Cool Vendor in Unified Communications, 2017'' was announced. In December 2017, Kaltura had 450 employees. In 2019 Kaltura crossed $100 million in annual recurring revenues (ARR). In 2015, Kaltura had been supposedly planning an

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, which by September 2020 had not happened. Co-founder Shay David, openly stated in 2017, that Kaltura had turned down a $500 million offer to acquire the company and that an IPO would only be possible when the financial data support an IPO at a valuation of close to $1 billion. In April 2019 Kaltura announced its intention to develop Cloud TV with Dativa through a dedicated

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. In early 2020 Kaltura announced its acquisition of Newrow, a platform for collaborative online meetings. In which they provide an internal portal for managing video content to over 600 educational institutions including

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, and

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. Allowing them to reach more than six million students in

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Corporate affairs

Kaltura currently has offices in

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, the

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, and the

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Leadership

Kaltura is managed by chairman, CEO and Co-founder Ron Yekutiel. Other key executives are: * Shay David, President, General Manager, Media & Telecom and Co-founder *Nuno Sanches, General Manager, Media and Telecom *

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, 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

Products / business model

Kaltura's original concept was built on the collaborative

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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, a

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platform, a

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offering, a Video Management Platform, a Video Portal (CorporateTube) product, a

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plugin, a

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video module, a

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Video Building Block, a

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Video Extension, a

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Video Webpart, a Canvas Extension, a Brightspace Video Extension, a

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Extension, and

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and

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, and .NET frameworks. Kaltura systems have been deployed in the UK

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`s online audio-video streams. Kaltura is also working on privacy, search and virtual lounges for one-to-one networking.

Awards

* 2007: People's Choice award in the Video Sharing category for the

Open Web Awards * 2008: "Global 250 Winners" by AlwaysOn In 2018, Inc. named Kaltura as one of "20 Tech Innovators to Watch". In 2020, Kaltura was added to TechCrunch's "$100 million ARR club", a list of companies that exceed $100 million in annual recurring revenue (ARR).

References

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