Kaltura, an 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 audio-video generation, low-latency speech recognition, and on-screen understanding to Kaltura’s portfolio, enabling AI agents to listen, speak, and interpret users’ screens in real-time.
Founded in 2023 by Alan Bekker and Eylon Shoshan, eSelf supports over 30 languages and provides a studio for creating and deploying digital humans. A full team of 15 AI specialists will join Kaltura to integrate the technology across enterprise video portals, virtual events, online learning, and TV streaming solutions used by customers such as Amazon, Oracle, Salesforce, SAP, Adobe, and major financial institutions.
This acquisition accelerates Kaltura’s evolution from a video management platform to 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.
