Kaltura

Type	Privately held
Industry	Internet Video
Founded	2006
Founder	Ron Yekutiel, Shay David, Michal Tsur, and Eran Etam
Headquarters	New York City, US
Services	Video Platform
Number of employees	400+ (as of August 2016)
Website	www.kaltura.com

Kaltura is a New York-based software company founded in 2006. Kaltura states that its mission is to power any video experience. Kaltura operates in four major markets for video based solutions: Cloud TV (AKA OTT TV) for operators and media companies, OVP (Online Video Platform) offered mostly to media companies and brands looking to distribute content or monetize it, EdVP (Education Video Platform) offered to educational institutions who are increasingly relying on video as for teaching and learning, and EVP (Enterprise Video Platform) offered to enterprises who use video for collaboration, communications and marketing. Kaltura offers a broad Video Platform as a Service, as well as turnkey video based SaaS solutions across all these markets. Kaltura is the initiator and backer of a successful open-source video-management project.

Kaltura's original concept was built on the collaborative 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. The vision of Kaltura has been that video is everywhere, and as a new data type, needs to be treated at the platform level.

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. 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.

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. 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. Kaltura CEO and cofounder Ron Yekutiel was photographed for the article "The Suit, Vers. 3.0" in Esquire's July 2008 edition.

In May 2014 Kaltura purchased Tvinci for its over-the-top (OTT) TV service.