Kaltura

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Overview

Kaltura is an agentic digital experience platform. It helps organisations create rich media, understand engagement and run personalised, conversational journeys for customers, employees, learners and audiences. The platform combines video management, live and virtual events, webinars, town halls, video portals, AI content creation, Agentic Avatars and journey intelligence. It is API-first and serves 1,200+ customers across technology, education, media and telecom, financial services and pharma.

In events, Kaltura Events covers virtual and hybrid events and webinars, from small sessions to large conferences, with chat, Q&A, polls and AI moderation. Forrester named Kaltura a Leader in The Forrester Wave: Virtual Event Management Platforms, Q2 2026.

History

Kaltura was founded in 2006 with open-source roots and now maintains 380+ repositories on GitHub. It acquired Tvinci in 2014 for cloud TV and Newrow in January 2020 for browser-based virtual classrooms, and listed publicly in the United States in 2021. In December 2025 it closed the acquisition of eSelf.ai, a generative-AI lab for real-time photorealistic avatars, which powers Kaltura's Agentic Avatars. In 2026 it added PathFactory, an AI content intelligence and journey orchestration platform, and repositioned as an agentic digital experience company. In September 2026 Gartner named Kaltura the company to beat in the AI race for Video Platform Services.

Product Lines

Product Line	Positioning	Price Range
Kaltura Events and Webinars	Virtual, hybrid and webinar events with engagement and analytics	Custom quote; webinar plans listed on corp.kaltura.com/pricing
Town Halls	Large-scale internal live events	Custom quote
Video Portal and Content Hubs	Secure video hubs for internal comms, training and marketing	Custom quote
Content Lab and REACH	AI clipping, summaries, captions and translation	Custom quote
Agentic Avatars and Genie	Conversational agents on top of an organisation's content	Custom quote
PathFactory	Content intelligence and journey orchestration for B2B marketing	Custom quote
TV Platform	Cloud TV and OTT for operators and media companies	Custom quote

Manufacturing

Kaltura is a software company. The platform runs as cloud software, with European customers served from AWS eu-central-1 in Frankfurt.

Notable Products

Kaltura Events - Virtual and hybrid event platform with registration, branded event sites, live sessions, engagement tools, analytics and on-demand content.
Content Lab - AI tool that turns long recordings into clips, summaries, chapters and quizzes.
Agentic Avatars - Photorealistic, real-time conversational avatars in 30+ languages, built on the eSelf technology.
Video Portal - Enterprise video portal for internal communications, knowledge sharing and training.
PathFactory - Content intelligence, intent data and journey orchestration for B2B marketing teams.

Reputation

Kaltura is known as a broad, configurable enterprise platform with strong accessibility, integrations, live streaming at scale and large deployments. Its range lets organisations replace separate video, webinar, town hall, classroom and portal tools. Criticisms concern implementation effort and administrative overhead compared with simpler single-purpose tools, and enterprise pricing that is quoted rather than published.

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