Kaltura Acquires eSelf.ai for $27 M to Bring Conversational Avatars into Enterprise Video

Kaltura, the New York–headquartered enterprise video platform, is acquiring Israeli startup eSelf.ai for $27 million. Founded in 2023 by CEO Alan Bekker and CTO Eylon Shoshan, eSelf.ai develops multilingual, avatar-based conversational agents capable of real-time interaction.

Its platform supports more than 30 languages and includes a studio for creating, customizing, and deploying photorealistic digital avatars. The acquisition brings eSelf’s team of around 15 AI experts into Kaltura, integrating their expertise in speech-to-video generation, low-latency speech recognition, and screen understanding into the company’s video offerings.

Kaltura serves over 800 enterprise customers, including Amazon, Oracle, Salesforce, SAP, Adobe, and IBM. The deal allows Kaltura to expand its platform beyond video streaming and personalized content into AI-driven interactive experiences for training, customer support, and marketing.

CEO Ron Yekutiel said, “We started with video, then moved to personalized video, and now, with eSelf’s technology, we’re adding human-like capabilities faces, eyes, mouths, ears, to make our AI agents conversational and expressive.”