| Website | kaltura.com |
| Blog | kaltura.com/blog |
| Category | Games, Video and Entertainment |
| Phone | 212.981.3965 |
| Employees | 25 |
| Founded | 10/06 |
| Description | Open Source Online Video Platform |
| Total | $2.1M |
| Series A, 5/07 Avalon Ventures | $2.1M |
| Series B, 6/08 .406 Ventures |
Kaltura provides the world’s first Open Source Online Video Platform. Tens of thousands of web publishers, integrators, and application developers use our free and flexible platform to add advanced video and photo functionalities including uploading, importing, editing, annotating, remixing, publishing, syndicating, searching, monetizing, and monitoring.
Founded in 2006, Kaltura’s open source code is available as a free Software Development Kit and as downloadable packages for leading platforms, including content management (Drupal, Joomla, Alfresco), blogging (WordPress, BuddyPress), collaboration (MediaWiki, TikiWiki), enterprise (MindTouch, Elgg), and education (Moodle, Sakai). Kaltura also provides supplementary paid services including maintenance, support, integration, professional development, streaming and hosting, ad serving, content syndication, and aggregation of related third party services.
Why Open Source Video?
The open-source approach accelerates adoption and spurs innovation that rapidly and cost-effectively enables a multitude of highly-integrated solutions for a wide variety of use cases and verticals. While the platform itself is free, Kaltura profits by providing a wide range of value added services to its platform users. Our open source cost structure coupled with our large and fast growing customer base enables us to deliver these services at a fraction of the cost of our competitors.
Since its public launch, New York-based Kaltura has won numerous awards and endorsements, including the coveted TechCrunch40 People’s Choice award, Mashable’s ‘Open Web’ award, Microsoft’s 2009 ‘most promising Israeli web startup’ award, AlwaysOn’s ‘top 250 startup’ and ‘top 100 media company’ awards, LeWeb’s ‘top 30 web startup’ award, the Open World Forum ‘Open Innovation’ award, Esquire Magazine’s ‘8 most promising Web 3.0 companies’, TV Week’s ‘5 most promising video startups for 2009’, and IDC’s ‘top 10 innovative application companies’. Kaltura is also a founding member of the ‘Open Video Alliance’ (www.openvideoalliance.org), a coalition of organizations dedicated to fostering open infrastructure, tools, and standards for online video. For more information: www.kaltura.com and www.kaltura.org.
Kaltura’s customers and partners include media companies, social networks, wikis, blogs and content sites. Kaltura recently partnered with the Wikimedia Foundation to provide a collaborative video solution for Wikipedia. Additional select customer include Universal Studios, Lion’s Gate Entertainment, Epic Records, Metacafe, University of Virginia, Penn State, UPenn, Pepsi, Dilbert and many more.
Kaltura’s presentation at TC40 2007.
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Added: 7/16/09| Website | kaltura.com |
| Blog | kaltura.com/blog |
| Launch Date | September 18, 2007 |
| Tags | kaltura, ad-supported-software, video-management, online-video, video-player, video-solution |
Kaltura has built a collaborative media platform to empower video management, creation, interaction and collaboration on any site and across sites.
The platform is the first open source online media platform, geared to serving both premium rich-media content and user generated content: from simple management and display of content to advanced functionality that includes remixing, annotation, moderation and syndication – a one stop shop for video management and numerous new possibilities of user engagement with media.
