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Kaltura

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Overview

Kaltura provides a suite of video technology solutions including OTT TV and video monetization, enterprise video solutions, a video marketing suite, education video solutions, and Kaltura VPaaS (Video-Platform-as-a-Service). Its products are deployed globally in thousands of enterprises, media companies, service providers and educational institutions. The company offers solutions for internal communication, collaboration, training, webcasting, and customer-facing video applications and workflows. Kaltura positions VPaaS as a self-serve specialized cloud video service to enable organizations to build and deploy video applications and experiences. The company is led by Ron Yekutiel, Chairman and CEO. Kaltura says it will use new capital to extend its presence globally. Kaltura is an open source online video platform that offers video management, publishing and monetization tools to simplify creation of video experiences. Led by Chairman and CEO Ron Yekutiel, the New York–based company serves media companies, corporations and educational institutions, with customers such as HBO, ABC, Warner Brothers, Paramount, Bank of America, Intel, Harvard and Yale. The company also reports more than 50,000 community members at kaltura.org. Kaltura says it will use the new funding to accelerate product development and to extend operations into Brazil, Mexico, China, Japan, Australia, Singapore and Korea. Prior financings include $25M in 2012 and $20M in 2011. The announcement reports an additional $47M of funding. Kaltura offers a suite of commercial video applications and an open-source development platform with extendible APIs that support video workflows such as ingestion, transcoding, management, distribution, publishing, engagement, monetization and analytics. The platform is supported by a global developer community of more than 40,000 members. Kaltura’s solutions can be deployed on-premise or on any public or private cloud, including Kaltura’s own SaaS cloud, and are supported on PCs, tablets, smartphones, set-top boxes and connected devices. The company sells products and services directly to organizations and via distributors and OEMs such as InterCall and Blackboard. Led by Chairman and CEO Ron Yekutiel, Kaltura intends to use new capital to expand its product offering and to grow into additional industries and geographies, mainly in the Asia‑Pacific region. The article reports the company raised $25M in funding. Kaltura is an open-source online video platform provider that helps publishers add video and interactive rich-media functionality to their websites. Its platform includes features for video management, searching, uploading, importing, editing, annotating, remixing, sharing and advertising. Led by Chairman, CEO and co-founder Ron Yekutiel, the company serves media and entertainment companies, enterprises, small- and medium-size businesses, educational institutions, service providers, platform vendors and system integrators. Kaltura received a $20M equity financing and intends to use the capital to enhance rich-media capabilities on tablets, mobile phones and other connected devices. The company is placing special emphasis on supporting the MeeGo mobile operating system and Intel’s AppUp application store. Kaltura has offices in San Francisco and London, with R&D headquarters in Ramat Gan, Israel.

Total raised
$142M
Funding rounds
4
Latest round
Equity
Latest activity
Aug 2016

Industries

  • Developer APIs
  • Developer Tools
  • SaaS
  • Video on Demand
  • Video Streaming
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Recent funding

  1. Equity

    Aug 2016

    $50M

  2. Equity

    Feb 2014

    $47M

  3. Series D

    Nov 2012

    $25M

  4. Equity

    Feb 2011

    $20M

Team

  • Ron Yekutiel

    Co-Founder, President, and CEO

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  • Michal Tsur

    Co-founder and President

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  • Eran Etam

    Founder

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  • Jesse Portnoy

    Open Source Community Manager and Packaging Lead

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