Kaltura, the AI-powered video platform serving more than 800 enterprise customers, has signed a definitive agreement to acquire eSelf.ai, an Israeli startup specializing in photorealistic conversational avatars, for approximately $27 million. The acquisition adds advanced speech-to-video generation, low-latency speech recognition, and on-screen understanding to Kaltura’s portfolio, enabling AI agents that can listen, speak, and interpret user screens in real time.
Founded in 2023 by Alan Bekker and Eylon Shoshan, eSelf supports more than 30 languages and offers a studio for creating and deploying digital humans. Its full team of 15 AI specialists will join Kaltura as the technology is integrated across corporate video portals, virtual events, online learning, and TV streaming solutions used by customers including Amazon, Oracle, Salesforce, SAP, Adobe, and major financial institutions.
The acquisition accelerates Kaltura’s evolution from a video management platform into an AI-driven customer and employee experience provider. The company plans to introduce embeddable virtual agents for sales, marketing, support, and training across sectors such as education, media, financial services, healthcare, and e-commerce.
