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Investor releaseQuarter not tagged2026-08-05Kaltura Inc (KLTR) (Q2 2026) Earnings Call Highlights: Record AI Deals and Raised Guidance ...
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Kaltura Inc (KLTR) (Q2 2026) Earnings Call Highlights: Record AI Deals and Raised Guidance ...
This article first appeared on GuruFocus. Release Date: August 05, 2026 For the complete transcript of the earnings call, please refer to the full earnings call transcript. Kaltura Inc (NASDAQ:KLTR) exceeded the high end of its guidance for both revenue and adjusted EBITDA in Q2 2026, with total revenue of $46.9 million (up 5% YoY) and adjusted EBITDA of $5.9 million (up 44% YoY). The company achieved a record non-GAAP gross margin of 75% and a record non-GAAP subscription gross margin of 79%, reflecting improved operational efficiencies and a favorable mix shift. Kaltura Inc (NASDAQ:KLTR) signed a record 14 new deals including AI offerings, doubling its previous record, with 9 deals involving its new agentic avatars product and 8 deals with new logos across diverse industries. The AI-related sales pipeline has grown to over 500 opportunities, representing approximately $17 million in non-weighted potential annual contract value (ACV), with a third coming from new logos. The company delivered its strongest gross retention performance since Q4 2022, and raised its full-year 2026 guidance for subscription revenue, total revenue, and adjusted EBITDA. Kaltura Inc (NASDAQ:KLTR) is positioning itself in two large market opportunitiesagentic revenue engagement and agentic learning and enablementeach estimated at over $20 billion, with a clear product roadmap for the second half of 2026. Kaltura Inc (NASDAQ:KLTR)'s M&T (Media & Telecom) segment continued to decline, with total revenue down 10% YoY and subscription revenue down 6% YoY, reflecting elevated churn from 2025. Professional services revenue declined significantly, down 40% YoY overall, which the company attributes to its strategic focus on recurring subscription revenue but still impacts total revenue growth. Net dollar retention (NDR) remained weak at 96%, down from 101% in the same quarter last year, indicating ongoing challenges with customer expansion and upselling. The company expects near-term pressure on retention from legacy contracts, including an anticipated roll-off of certain Path Factory customers, which could weigh on future results. Revenue contribution from the 14 new AI deals remains limited, with a combined total contract value of approximately $1 million, and the company expects only a modest ramp in the second half of 2026 with a more meaningful impact in 2027. Kaltura Inc (NASDAQ:KLTR)…Read full documentShow less
This article first appeared on GuruFocus. Release Date: August 05, 2026 For the complete transcript of the earnings call, please refer to the full earnings call transcript. Kaltura Inc (NASDAQ:KLTR) exceeded the high end of its guidance for both revenue and adjusted EBITDA in Q2 2026, with total revenue of $46.9 million (up 5% YoY) and adjusted EBITDA of $5.9 million (up 44% YoY). The company achieved a record non-GAAP gross margin of 75% and a record non-GAAP subscription gross margin of 79%, reflecting improved operational efficiencies and a favorable mix shift. Kaltura Inc (NASDAQ:KLTR) signed a record 14 new deals including AI offerings, doubling its previous record, with 9 deals involving its new agentic avatars product and 8 deals with new logos across diverse industries. The AI-related sales pipeline has grown to over 500 opportunities, representing approximately $17 million in non-weighted potential annual contract value (ACV), with a third coming from new logos. The company delivered its strongest gross retention performance since Q4 2022, and raised its full-year 2026 guidance for subscription revenue, total revenue, and adjusted EBITDA. Kaltura Inc (NASDAQ:KLTR) is positioning itself in two large market opportunitiesagentic revenue engagement and agentic learning and enablementeach estimated at over $20 billion, with a clear product roadmap for the second half of 2026. Kaltura Inc (NASDAQ:KLTR)'s M&T (Media & Telecom) segment continued to decline, with total revenue down 10% YoY and subscription revenue down 6% YoY, reflecting elevated churn from 2025. Professional services revenue declined significantly, down 40% YoY overall, which the company attributes to its strategic focus on recurring subscription revenue but still impacts total revenue growth. Net dollar retention (NDR) remained weak at 96%, down from 101% in the same quarter last year, indicating ongoing challenges with customer expansion and upselling. The company expects near-term pressure on retention from legacy contracts, including an anticipated roll-off of certain Path Factory customers, which could weigh on future results. Revenue contribution from the 14 new AI deals remains limited, with a combined total contract value of approximately $1 million, and the company expects only a modest ramp in the second half of 2026 with a more meaningful impact in 2027. Kaltura Inc (NASDAQ:KLTR) experienced FX headwinds of approximately $1 million in the quarter, and the company's cash flow from operations was negative at $2 million, a decline from positive cash flow in Q2 2025. Warning! GuruFocus has detected 4 Warning Signs with KLTR. Is KLTR fairly valued? Test your thesis with our free DCF calculator. Q: Can you talk about distribution efforts for the new Avatar technology, how you are building the pipeline, and where you see the most interesting opportunities?A: Ron Yucel, CEO: The AI space is driving new logo acquisition, with about 33% of the pipeline currently from new logos. We have a couple of hundred agentic avatar opportunities, about 100 for the Avatar video production studio, and 60+ active or scoped proofs of concept. Our go-to-market is divided by verticals (EDU, M&T, enterprise) and geography, with the US leading. We are also seeing interesting channel opportunities. We have four main go-to-market motions: conversational agents, AI content creation, cross-sales between Path Factory and Kaltura, and full bundle wins. These are being deployed across verticals, regions, and use cases (customer, employee, learner, and audience journeys). Q: Can you unpack the sequential ARR increase, specifically how much was M&A driven versus organic, and what are your expectations for Path Factory attrition?A: Ron Yucel, CEO: Path Factory contributed $4.9 million in revenue in Q2. We expect some attrition in the Path Factory base over the next few quarters, which was already baked into our guidance. Excluding one-time on-prem revenue in Q1, the ENT business was flattish, which is expected seasonally. The M&T decline was as expected. We are guiding for a sequential decline in Q3 due to Path Factory headwinds and conservatism, but we expect the rest of the business and AI opportunities to overtake that and drive sequential pickup into Q4. Q: How are you managing the people and process side of rolling out your new agentic and avatar capabilities? Are you retraining the existing sales force or hiring new skills?A: Ron Yucel, CEO: This is an evolution, not a revolution. We are retraining our existing sales force, currently running a 3-day "summer camp" training session. The customers and buyers are largely the same, and the integration with Path Factory is going well. We are hiring more diverse talent, but our existing relationships and product mix are playing strongly into the new motions. We are enabling the team to sell the two new comprehensive solutions: agentic revenue engagement and agentic learning and enablement. Q: What is driving the expected churn on the Path Factory side? Is it roadmap repricing or a refocus of R&D efforts?A: Ron Yucel, CEO: Path Factory was a declining revenue company before acquisition due to positioning of its standalone product. We acquired it to be the "brains" of our agentic motion, combining its content and user intelligence with our experience and content creation layers. While we see renewed interest in the standalone product, we expect the core to "glide" due to past relationships and conservatism. The big opportunity is the combination into our agentic revenue and learning solutions, where Path Factory's orchestration brain is a key differentiator. Q: Can you provide more detail on the 14 new AI deals signed in Q2, including the breakdown by product and customer type?A: Ron Yucel, CEO: We signed a record 14 new deals including AI offerings, doubling our previous record. Nine included our new agentic avatars product, four had six-figure total contract values, and eight were with new logos. The deals span six industries: higher education (4), real estate (3), technology (2), consulting/BPO (2), financial services (2), and media/telecom (1). Use cases include personalized employee onboarding, learner journeys, customer engagement, and lead qualification. The combined TCV is approximately $1 million, representing initial footholds for expansion. Q: What is the current AI-related pipeline, and how should we interpret the $17 million in non-weighted potential ACV?A: Ron Yucel, CEO: We have more than 500 AI-related opportunities in the pipeline, representing approximately $17 million in non-weighted potential ACV. This is a non-weighted number including all stages, so not all will convert. About a third comes from new logos. By industry, over a third is from education/tech/publishers, 25% from media/telecom, and 40% from enterprises. The pipeline includes over 200 agentic avatar opportunities and close to 100 for the video production studio. We view this as an encouraging initial indicator given our go-to-market is still developing. Q: Can you elaborate on the two new comprehensive solutionsagentic revenue engagement and agentic learning and enablementand their market opportunities?A: Ron Yucel, CEO: The agentic revenue engagement solution combines video, content intelligence, and conversational AI into an intelligent buyer engagement platform, addressing a market opportunity of more than $20 billion growing at over 15% annually. The agentic learning and enablement solution brings together AI-generated content, conversational avatars, AI tutors, and personalized journeys for employees, customers, and students, representing another $20 billion+ market. We believe AI is converging these categories, and platforms with a common content and intelligence layer will be advantaged. Q: What drove the record non-GAAP gross margin of 75% in Q2, and how should we think about profitability going forward?A: Laron Sharon, EVP of FP&A and Interim Principal Financial Officer: The record gross margin was driven by a record non-GAAP subscription gross margin of 79%, reflecting the mix shift toward higher-margin subscription revenue, operating efficiencies, and improved unit economics. Adjusted EBITDA was $5.9 million, up 44% year-over-year, with a margin of 12%, up 300 basis points. We continue to balance investing in our AI roadmap with expanding non-GAAP profitability and cash flow generation. Q: Can you provide more color on the Q3 and full-year 2026 guidance, particularly the sequential decline in subscription revenue?A: Laron Sharon, EVP of FP&A and Interim Principal Financial Officer: For Q3, we expect subscription revenue between $43.9 million and $44.6 million (5-6% YoY growth) and total revenue between $45.8 million and $46.5 million (4-6% YoY growth). For the full year, we are raising guidance: subscription revenue between $176.6 million and $178.6 million (3-4% growth) and total revenue between $183 million and $185 million (1-2% growth For the complete transcript of the earnings call, please refer to the full earnings call transcript.
Investor releaseQuarter not tagged2026-08-05Kaltura Q2 Earnings Call Highlights
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Kaltura Q2 Earnings Call Highlights
Interested in Kaltura, Inc.? Here are five stocks we like better. Q2 results exceeded guidance: Revenue rose 5% year over year to $46.9 million, subscription revenue increased 8% to $45.6 million, and adjusted EBITDA jumped 44% to $5.9 million. Non-GAAP gross margin reached a record 75%. AI momentum accelerated: Kaltura signed 14 AI-related deals, including eight with new customers, worth approximately $1 million in total contract value. Its AI pipeline surpassed 500 opportunities representing about $17 million in potential annual contract value, though management expects meaningful revenue growth mainly in 2027. Full-year outlook raised: Kaltura now expects 2026 subscription revenue of $176.6 million to $178.6 million, total revenue of $183 million to $185 million, and adjusted EBITDA of $15.8 million to $17.2 million. Management cautioned that legacy PathFactory customer revenue will likely decline over the next several quarters before recovering. Kaltura (NASDAQ:KLTR) reported second-quarter 2026 results above the high end of its guidance range, citing subscription revenue growth, record non-GAAP gross margin and growing early commercial activity for its artificial-intelligence products. Total revenue for the quarter ended June 30 was $46.9 million, up 5% both sequentially and from a year earlier. Subscription revenue rose 8% year over year to $45.6 million, while professional services revenue fell 14% to $1.3 million as the company continued to emphasize recurring subscription revenue. → SpaceX’s First Earnings Report Could Decide Whether Shorts or Bulls Have Control Adjusted EBITDA increased 44% from the prior-year period to $5.9 million, above the company’s prior guidance of $2 million to $3 million. Kaltura reported a GAAP net loss of $5.5 million, or $0.04 per diluted share, compared with a $7.8 million loss, or $0.05 per share, a year earlier. Non-GAAP net profit was $2.3 million, or $0.01 per share. GAAP gross profit was $34.5 million, producing a 74% gross margin, up 300 basis points from the second quarter of 2025. Non-GAAP gross margin reached a record 75%, including a record 79% non-GAAP subscription gross margin, according to Executive Vice President of FP&A and interim Principal Financial Officer Liron Sharon. → 3 Drone Stocks That Should Soar After the Summer Slump Sharon attributed the year-over-year margin expansion to a greater mix of hig…Read full documentShow less
Interested in Kaltura, Inc.? Here are five stocks we like better. Q2 results exceeded guidance: Revenue rose 5% year over year to $46.9 million, subscription revenue increased 8% to $45.6 million, and adjusted EBITDA jumped 44% to $5.9 million. Non-GAAP gross margin reached a record 75%. AI momentum accelerated: Kaltura signed 14 AI-related deals, including eight with new customers, worth approximately $1 million in total contract value. Its AI pipeline surpassed 500 opportunities representing about $17 million in potential annual contract value, though management expects meaningful revenue growth mainly in 2027. Full-year outlook raised: Kaltura now expects 2026 subscription revenue of $176.6 million to $178.6 million, total revenue of $183 million to $185 million, and adjusted EBITDA of $15.8 million to $17.2 million. Management cautioned that legacy PathFactory customer revenue will likely decline over the next several quarters before recovering. Kaltura (NASDAQ:KLTR) reported second-quarter 2026 results above the high end of its guidance range, citing subscription revenue growth, record non-GAAP gross margin and growing early commercial activity for its artificial-intelligence products. Total revenue for the quarter ended June 30 was $46.9 million, up 5% both sequentially and from a year earlier. Subscription revenue rose 8% year over year to $45.6 million, while professional services revenue fell 14% to $1.3 million as the company continued to emphasize recurring subscription revenue. → SpaceX’s First Earnings Report Could Decide Whether Shorts or Bulls Have Control Adjusted EBITDA increased 44% from the prior-year period to $5.9 million, above the company’s prior guidance of $2 million to $3 million. Kaltura reported a GAAP net loss of $5.5 million, or $0.04 per diluted share, compared with a $7.8 million loss, or $0.05 per share, a year earlier. Non-GAAP net profit was $2.3 million, or $0.01 per share. GAAP gross profit was $34.5 million, producing a 74% gross margin, up 300 basis points from the second quarter of 2025. Non-GAAP gross margin reached a record 75%, including a record 79% non-GAAP subscription gross margin, according to Executive Vice President of FP&A and interim Principal Financial Officer Liron Sharon. → 3 Drone Stocks That Should Soar After the Summer Slump Sharon attributed the year-over-year margin expansion to a greater mix of higher-margin subscription revenue, operating efficiencies and unit economics. Enterprise, Education and Technology revenue totaled $36.8 million, up 11% year over year, while subscription revenue in the segment rose 12% to $36.4 million. Media and Telecom revenue was $10.1 million, down 10% from a year earlier, with subscription revenue declining 6% to $9.2 million. Annualized recurring revenue was $184.6 million, up 9% sequentially and 8% year over year. Remaining performance obligations were $164.3 million, up 6% sequentially but down 1% from the prior year. Kaltura expects to recognize 71% of that amount as revenue over the next 12 months. Net dollar retention was 96%, compared with 95% in the first quarter and 101% in the year-earlier quarter. Sharon said the company achieved its strongest gross retention performance since the fourth quarter of 2022, though management expects some near-term pressure from legacy contracts, including anticipated roll-offs among certain PathFactory customers. → The Bitcoin Comeback May Already Be Underway—2 ETFs for Exposure Chief Executive Officer Ron Yekutiel said the quarter’s most significant development was a rise in new customer deals involving Kaltura’s AI offerings. The company signed 14 AI-related deals during the period, double its prior record. Nine involved its Agentic Avatars product, four carried six-digit total contract values, and eight were with new customers. The deals spanned education, real estate, technology, consulting and business-process outsourcing, financial services, and media and telecommunications. Use cases included employee onboarding and training, personalized learning, customer engagement, marketing, property discovery, lead qualification and conversational advertising. The combined total contract value of the 14 AI-related deals was about $1 million. Yekutiel said the revenue impact remains limited, describing the contracts as initial footholds that could expand to more users, business units and use cases over time. Management continues to expect initial contributions from the newer products in the second half of 2026, with a more meaningful ramp anticipated in 2027. Kaltura said its AI-related pipeline includes more than 500 opportunities across stages of engagement, representing approximately $17 million in non-weighted potential annual contract value. The company emphasized that the figure includes opportunities that may not convert and that many discussions remain in early stages. More than 200 pipeline opportunities involve Agentic Avatars, while nearly 100 involve the Avatar Video Production Studio. The company also cited more than 60 active or in-development proofs of concept. Roughly one-third of potential AI pipeline value is associated with personalized employee journeys, another third with learner experiences, and the remainder with customer, partner and audience-facing applications. Kaltura continued integrating PathFactory, which it acquired to add content intelligence and customer-journey orchestration capabilities. Yekutiel said PathFactory contributed $4.9 million in second-quarter revenue, but management expects revenue from its existing customer base to decline over the next several quarters before recovering. He said Kaltura’s strategy is not centered on selling PathFactory as a standalone product, but on using its intelligence and orchestration capabilities as part of a broader agentic platform. The company is training its sales organization and introducing two packaged offerings: Agentic Revenue Engagement and Agentic Learning and Enablement. The revenue-engagement offering combines rich media, content intelligence and conversational AI to support buyer-intent analysis, personalized engagement, next-best-content recommendations, follow-up automation and digital sales rooms. The learning-and-enablement offering is designed to combine AI-generated learning content, conversational avatars, tutoring, coaching simulations, assessments and personalized learning paths. For the third quarter, Kaltura expects subscription revenue of $43.9 million to $44.6 million, total revenue of $45.8 million to $46.5 million, and adjusted EBITDA of $2 million to $3 million. For full-year 2026, the company raised and narrowed its outlook. It now expects subscription revenue of $176.6 million to $178.6 million, representing growth of 3% to 4%; total revenue of $183 million to $185 million, up 1% to 2%; and adjusted EBITDA of $15.8 million to $17.2 million. Kaltura ended the quarter with $35.5 million in cash equivalents and marketable securities. Net cash used in operating activities was $2 million, and Sharon said the company expects to generate operating cash flow in the third and fourth quarters, consistent with its historical seasonality. Kaltura, Inc (NASDAQ: KLTR) is a leading provider of video technology solutions designed to empower organizations to create, manage, distribute and monetize video content at scale. The company's cloud-native platform supports an array of use cases including enterprise communications, online learning, virtual events, media delivery and over-the-top (OTT) television services. By combining open-source roots with software-as-a-service (SaaS) flexibility, Kaltura offers organizations the ability to tailor their video workflows and integrate seamlessly with existing collaboration, learning management and content management systems. Key offerings from Kaltura include a comprehensive video management system, live streaming and video conferencing capabilities, lecture capture for educational institutions, virtual events and webinars, and turnkey OTT solutions. This instant news alert was generated by narrative science technology and financial data from MarketBeat in order to provide readers with the fastest reporting and unbiased coverage. Please send any questions or comments about this story to [email protected]. The article "Kaltura Q2 Earnings Call Highlights" was originally published by MarketBeat. View MarketBeat's top stocks for August 2026.
Investor releaseQuarter not tagged2026-08-05Kaltura Reports Second-Quarter Revenue Growth as AI Deal Momentum Accelerates
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Kaltura Reports Second-Quarter Revenue Growth as AI Deal Momentum Accelerates
The enterprise software company exceeded second-quarter guidance, reported record AI-related customer wins, and highlighted growing commercial traction for its agentic digital experience platform while maintaining its full-year outlook. Kaltura (NASDAQ:KLTR) exceeded second-quarter guidance with revenue rising 5% to $46.9 million and adjusted EBITDA increasing to $5.9 million. The company signed a record 14 AI-related deals during the quarter, including nine involving its Agentic Avatars technology and eight with new customers. Annualized recurring revenue (ARR) increased 8% to $184.6 million, while subscription revenue grew 8% year over year. Record non-GAAP gross margin of 75% and improved operating profitability reflected continued operational efficiency. Management expects stronger bookings momentum in the second half of 2026, with more meaningful revenue contributions from new AI products anticipated in 2027. Kaltura (NASDAQ:KLTR) reported second-quarter 2026 revenue of $46.9 million, up 5% from the prior year, while subscription revenue increased 8% to $45.6 million. Annualized recurring revenue climbed to $184.6 million, also representing 8% year-over-year growth. Profitability continued to improve. GAAP operating loss narrowed to $0.8 million from $2.8 million a year earlier, while non-GAAP operating profit increased to $4.8 million. Adjusted EBITDA reached $5.9 million, exceeding the company’s guidance and marking its strongest second-quarter adjusted EBITDA performance to date. Non-GAAP gross margin also reached a record 75%. The quarter also highlighted accelerating adoption of Kaltura’s AI offerings. The company signed a record 14 contracts that included AI products, doubling its previous high. Nine of those agreements included Agentic Avatars, while eight were with new customers across industries including financial services, healthcare, education, technology, media, and professional services. Kaltura also advanced the integration of its eSelf.ai and PathFactory acquisitions, expanded enterprise AI capabilities across its platform, and continued developing two strategic offerings focused on Agentic Revenue Engagement and Agentic Learning & Enablement. For the third quarter, the company expects revenue between $45.8 million and $46.5 million with adjusted EBITDA of $2.0 million to $3.0 million. Full-year guidance calls for total revenue between $…Read full documentShow less
The enterprise software company exceeded second-quarter guidance, reported record AI-related customer wins, and highlighted growing commercial traction for its agentic digital experience platform while maintaining its full-year outlook. Kaltura (NASDAQ:KLTR) exceeded second-quarter guidance with revenue rising 5% to $46.9 million and adjusted EBITDA increasing to $5.9 million. The company signed a record 14 AI-related deals during the quarter, including nine involving its Agentic Avatars technology and eight with new customers. Annualized recurring revenue (ARR) increased 8% to $184.6 million, while subscription revenue grew 8% year over year. Record non-GAAP gross margin of 75% and improved operating profitability reflected continued operational efficiency. Management expects stronger bookings momentum in the second half of 2026, with more meaningful revenue contributions from new AI products anticipated in 2027. Kaltura (NASDAQ:KLTR) reported second-quarter 2026 revenue of $46.9 million, up 5% from the prior year, while subscription revenue increased 8% to $45.6 million. Annualized recurring revenue climbed to $184.6 million, also representing 8% year-over-year growth. Profitability continued to improve. GAAP operating loss narrowed to $0.8 million from $2.8 million a year earlier, while non-GAAP operating profit increased to $4.8 million. Adjusted EBITDA reached $5.9 million, exceeding the company’s guidance and marking its strongest second-quarter adjusted EBITDA performance to date. Non-GAAP gross margin also reached a record 75%. The quarter also highlighted accelerating adoption of Kaltura’s AI offerings. The company signed a record 14 contracts that included AI products, doubling its previous high. Nine of those agreements included Agentic Avatars, while eight were with new customers across industries including financial services, healthcare, education, technology, media, and professional services. Kaltura also advanced the integration of its eSelf.ai and PathFactory acquisitions, expanded enterprise AI capabilities across its platform, and continued developing two strategic offerings focused on Agentic Revenue Engagement and Agentic Learning & Enablement. For the third quarter, the company expects revenue between $45.8 million and $46.5 million with adjusted EBITDA of $2.0 million to $3.0 million. Full-year guidance calls for total revenue between $183.0 million and $185.0 million and adjusted EBITDA of $15.8 million to $17.2 million. The quarter suggests Kaltura’s AI strategy is beginning to translate into measurable commercial activity rather than remaining solely a product development initiative. While overall revenue growth remained modest, the increase in AI-related customer wins and higher subscription revenue may indicate growing demand for the company’s evolving platform. Strong recurring revenue growth and improving retention also suggest greater stability within its subscription business. At the same time, investors may continue monitoring the Media & Telecom segment, where revenue declined 10% year over year due to elevated customer churn during 2025. Future growth may increasingly depend on whether expanding enterprise AI adoption offsets weakness in legacy business areas. Management’s expectation that newer AI products will contribute more meaningfully to revenue in 2027 also points to a longer commercialization timeline, making bookings growth and customer adoption important indicators over the coming quarters. Investors will likely focus on: Whether AI-related bookings continue accelerating during the second half of 2026. Progress integrating the eSelf.ai and PathFactory platforms. Adoption of Agentic Avatars and the company’s new Agentic Revenue Engagement and Agentic Learning & Enablement solutions. Improvement in the Media & Telecom segment alongside continued expansion in enterprise and education markets. Kaltura stock price
Investor releaseQuarter not tagged2026-08-05Kaltura Announces Financial Results for Second Quarter 2026
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Kaltura Announces Financial Results for Second Quarter 2026
NEW YORK, Aug. 05, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Kaltura, Inc. (Nasdaq: KLTR, “Kaltura” or the “Company”), the Agentic Digital Experience Company, today announced financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2026, as well as outlook for the third quarter and full year 2026. The Company’s investor presentation for the quarter, which showcases its agentic avatar technology, is available at: https://q2-26-avatar.kaltura.com/ Total revenue for the second quarter was $46.9 million, with subscription revenue of $45.6 million. Net loss for the quarter was $5.5 million, and Adjusted EBITDA for the quarter was $5.9 million. “We delivered a strong second quarter, exceeding the high end of our guidance for both revenue and adjusted EBITDA, while achieving record non-GAAP gross margin and our highest second-quarter adjusted EBITDA to date,” said Ron Yekutiel, Co-Founder, Chairman, President, and Chief Executive Officer of Kaltura. “More importantly, we are beginning to see measurable commercial traction from our evolution to powering rich, agentic digital experiences. During the quarter, we signed a record fourteen new deals that included our AI offerings, doubling our previous record, across a broad range of industries and employee, learner, customer, and audience-facing use cases. Our growing pipeline, expanding proofs of concept, and progress integrating eSelf.ai and PathFactory increase our confidence in stronger bookings momentum in the second half of the year and a more meaningful revenue contribution from our new products in 2027,” concluded Yekutiel. Second Quarter 2026 Business Highlights: Exceeded the high end of guidance for both revenue and adjusted EBITDA, delivering the company’s highest second-quarter adjusted EBITDA to date and a record non-GAAP gross margin of 75%. Grew new subscription bookings sequentially, including thirteen six-digit total contract value deals. Five of these deals were with new logos across the financial services, healthcare and education industries. Signed a record fourteen new deals that included one or more of our AI offerings which represents a doubling of deals signed compared to our previous record. Nine of the fourteen deals included Kaltura’s Agentic Avatars, and eight were with new logos. Expanded commercial adoption of Kaltura’s AI offerings across education, real estate, technology, professional services, financial…Read full documentShow less
NEW YORK, Aug. 05, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Kaltura, Inc. (Nasdaq: KLTR, “Kaltura” or the “Company”), the Agentic Digital Experience Company, today announced financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2026, as well as outlook for the third quarter and full year 2026. The Company’s investor presentation for the quarter, which showcases its agentic avatar technology, is available at: https://q2-26-avatar.kaltura.com/ Total revenue for the second quarter was $46.9 million, with subscription revenue of $45.6 million. Net loss for the quarter was $5.5 million, and Adjusted EBITDA for the quarter was $5.9 million. “We delivered a strong second quarter, exceeding the high end of our guidance for both revenue and adjusted EBITDA, while achieving record non-GAAP gross margin and our highest second-quarter adjusted EBITDA to date,” said Ron Yekutiel, Co-Founder, Chairman, President, and Chief Executive Officer of Kaltura. “More importantly, we are beginning to see measurable commercial traction from our evolution to powering rich, agentic digital experiences. During the quarter, we signed a record fourteen new deals that included our AI offerings, doubling our previous record, across a broad range of industries and employee, learner, customer, and audience-facing use cases. Our growing pipeline, expanding proofs of concept, and progress integrating eSelf.ai and PathFactory increase our confidence in stronger bookings momentum in the second half of the year and a more meaningful revenue contribution from our new products in 2027,” concluded Yekutiel. Second Quarter 2026 Business Highlights: Exceeded the high end of guidance for both revenue and adjusted EBITDA, delivering the company’s highest second-quarter adjusted EBITDA to date and a record non-GAAP gross margin of 75%. Grew new subscription bookings sequentially, including thirteen six-digit total contract value deals. Five of these deals were with new logos across the financial services, healthcare and education industries. Signed a record fourteen new deals that included one or more of our AI offerings which represents a doubling of deals signed compared to our previous record. Nine of the fourteen deals included Kaltura’s Agentic Avatars, and eight were with new logos. Expanded commercial adoption of Kaltura’s AI offerings across education, real estate, technology, professional services, financial services, and media and telecommunications, spanning employee, learner, customer and audience-facing use cases. Achieved the company’s strongest gross retention quarter since the fourth quarter of 2022, reflecting continued improvement in customer stability. Made significant progress integrating the Kaltura and PathFactory platforms, including enabling the synchronization of content and workflows and combining enterprise content with first-party engagement signals to support richer content intelligence, personalization and recommendations. Continued to advance the three layers of Kaltura’s agentic digital experience platform - content creation, content management and intelligence, and interactive conversational experiences - including enhanced avatar-production workflows, expanded multilingual capabilities, enterprise-governance features and conversational AI embedded across the Kaltura’s product portfolio. Advanced the development of two strategic solutions, Agentic Revenue Engagement and Agentic Learning & Enablement, which bring together Kaltura’s AI-powered content creation, content intelligence, rich-media and conversational capabilities around large and repeatable enterprise use cases. Hosted record attendance at the company’s annual Kaltura Connect and Education Connect events and received multiple leadership industry recognitions across conversational AI, enterprise video, and virtual events. Second Quarter 2026 Financial Highlights: Total revenue for the second quarter of 2026 was $46.9 million, an increase of 5% compared to $44.5 million for the second quarter of 2025. Subscription Revenue for the second quarter of 2026 was $45.6 million, an increase of 8% compared to $42.4 million for the second quarter of 2025. On a reporting-segment basis, Enterprise, Education and Technology (EE&T) total revenue increased 11% year-over-year in the second quarter, while Media & Telecom (M&T) total revenue declined 10% year-over-year, primarily due to elevated gross churn throughout 2025. Annualized Recurring Revenue (ARR) for the second quarter of 2026 was $184.6 million, an increase of 8% compared to $170.4 million for the second quarter of 2025. GAAP Gross profit for the second quarter of 2026 was $34.5 million, representing a gross margin of 74% compared to a GAAP gross profit of $31.2 million and gross margin of 70% for the second quarter of 2025. Subscription gross margin was 78% compared to 77% for the second quarter of 2025. Non-GAAP Gross profit for the second quarter of 2026 was $35.0 million, representing a non-GAAP gross margin of 75%, compared to a non-GAAP gross profit of $31.3 million and non-GAAP gross margin of 70% for the second quarter of 2025. GAAP Operating loss was $0.8 million for the second quarter of 2026, compared to an operating loss of $2.8 million for the second quarter of 2025. Non-GAAP Operating profit was $4.8 million for the second quarter of 2026, compared to a non-GAAP operating profit of $3.0 million for the second quarter of 2025. GAAP Net loss was $5.5 million or $0.04 per diluted share for the second quarter of 2026, compared to a GAAP net loss of $7.8 million, or $0.05 per diluted share, for the second quarter of 2025. Non-GAAP Net profit was $2.3 million or $0.01 per diluted share for the second quarter of 2026, compared to a non-GAAP net loss of $2.5 million, or $0.01 per diluted share, for the second quarter of 2025. Adjusted EBITDA was $5.9 million for the second quarter of 2026, compared to adjusted EBITDA of $4.1 million for the second quarter of 2025. Balance Sheet and Cash Flow The balance of cash, cash equivalents, and marketable securities at the end of the second quarter was $35.5 million. Net cash used in operating activities was $2.0 million for the second quarter of 2026, compared to $2.7 million net cash provided by operating activities for the second quarter of 2025. Financial Outlook: For the third quarter of 2026, Kaltura expects: Subscription Revenue to be between $43.9 million and $44.6 million. Total Revenue to be between $45.8 million and $46.5 million. Adjusted EBITDA to be between $2.0 million to $3.0 million. For the full year ending December 31, 2026, Kaltura expects: Subscription Revenue to be between $176.6 million and $178.6 million. Total Revenue to be between $183.0 million and $185.0 million. Adjusted EBITDA to be in the range of $15.8 million to $17.2 million. The guidance provided above contains forward-looking statements and actual results may differ materially. Refer to “Forward-Looking Statements” below for information on the factors that could cause our actual results to differ materially from these forward-looking statements. Kaltura has not provided a quantitative reconciliation of forecasted Adjusted EBITDA to forecasted GAAP net loss within this press release because the Company is unable, without making unreasonable efforts, to calculate certain reconciling items with confidence. The reconciliation for Adjusted EBITDA includes but is not limited to the following items: stock-based compensation expenses, depreciation, amortization, financial expenses (income), net, provision for income tax, and other non-recurring operating expenses. These items, which could materially affect the computation of forward-looking GAAP net loss, are inherently uncertain and depend on various factors, some of which are outside of the Company’s control. The guidance above is based on the Company's current expectations relating to the macro-economic climate trends. Additional information on Kaltura’s reported results, including a reconciliation of the non-GAAP financial measures to their most comparable GAAP measures, is included in the financial tables below. Investor Deck The Company’s investor presentation for the quarter, which showcases its agentic avatar technology, is available at: https://q2-26-avatar.kaltura.com/ Conference Call Kaltura will host a conference call today on August 5, 2026 to review its second quarter 2026 financial results and to discuss its financial outlook. A live webcast will also be available in the Investor Relations section of Kaltura’s website at: https://investors.kaltura.com/news-and-events/events. A replay of the webcast will be available in the Investor Relations section of the company’s web site approximately two hours after the conclusion of the call and remain available for approximately 30 calendar days. About Kaltura Kaltura’s mission is to power rich, agentic digital experiences across organizational journeys for customers, employees, learners, and audiences. Its platform combines intelligent content creation, enterprise-grade content management and intelligence, and multimodal conversational engagement capabilities. Kaltura serves leading enterprises, financial institutions, educational institutions, media and telecom providers, and other organizations worldwide. For more information, visit www.corp.kaltura.com. Investor Contacts:KalturaLiron SharonInterim Principal Financial [email protected] Sapphire Investor RelationsErica Mannion and Michael Funari+1 617 542 [email protected] Media Contacts:KalturaNohar [email protected] Headline MediaRaanan [email protected]+1 347 897 9276 Forward-Looking Statements This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. 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We believe that investors’ understanding of our performance is enhanced by including these non-GAAP financial measures as a reasonable basis for comparing our ongoing results of operations. Additionally, our management uses these non-GAAP financial measures as supplemental measures of our performance because they assist us in comparing the operating performance of our business on a consistent basis between periods, as described above. Although we use the non-GAAP financial measures described above, such measures have significant limitations as analytical tools and only supplement but do not replace, our financial statements in accordance with GAAP. See the tables below regarding reconciliations of these non-GAAP financial measures to the most directly comparable GAAP measures. Key Financial and Operating Metrics Annualized Recurring Revenue. We use Annualized Recurring Revenue (“ARR”) as a measure of our revenue trend and an indicator of our future revenue opportunity from existing recurring customer contracts. We calculate ARR by annualizing our recurring revenue for the most recently completed fiscal quarter. Recurring revenues are generated from SaaS and PaaS subscriptions, as well as term licenses for software installed on the customer's premises (“On-Prem”). For the SaaS and PaaS components, we calculate ARR by annualizing the actual recurring revenue recognized for the latest fiscal quarter. For the On-Prem components for which revenue recognition is not ratable across the license term, we calculate ARR for each contract by dividing the total contract value (excluding professional services) as of the last day of the specified period by the number of days in the contract term and then multiplying by 365. Recurring revenue excludes revenue from one-time professional services and setup fees. ARR is not adjusted for the impact of any known or projected future customer cancellations, upgrades or downgrades or price increases or decreases. The amount of actual revenue that we recognize over any 12-month period is likely to differ from ARR at the beginning of that period, sometimes significantly. This may occur due to new bookings, cancellations, upgrades or downgrades, pending renewals, professional services revenue, foreign exchange rate fluctuations and acquisitions or divestitures. ARR should be viewed independently of revenue as it is an operating metric and is not intended to be a replacement or forecast of revenue. Our calculation of ARR may differ from similarly titled metrics presented by other companies. Net Dollar Retention Rate. Our Net Dollar Retention Rate, which we use to measure our success in retaining and growing recurring revenue from our existing customers, compares our recognized recurring revenue from a set of customers across comparable periods. We calculate our Net Dollar Retention Rate for a given period as the recognized recurring revenue from the latest reported fiscal quarter from the set of customers whose revenue existed in the reported fiscal quarter from the prior year (the numerator), divided by recognized recurring revenue from such customers for the same fiscal quarter in the prior year (denominator). For annual periods, we report Net Dollar Retention Rate as the arithmetic average of the Net Dollar Retention Rate for all fiscal quarters included in the period. We consider subdivisions of the same legal entity (for example, divisions of a parent company or separate campuses that are part of the same state university system) ,as well as Value-add Resellers (“VARs”) (meaning resellers that directly manage the relationship with the customer) and the customers they manage, to be a single customer for purposes of calculating our Net Dollar Retention Rate. Our calculation of Net Dollar Retention Rate for any fiscal period includes the positive recognized recurring revenue impacts of selling new services to existing customers and the negative recognized recurring revenue impacts of contraction and attrition among this set of customers. Our Net Dollar Retention Rate may fluctuate as a result of a number of factors, including the growing level of our revenue base, the level of penetration within our customer base, expansion of products and features, and our ability to retain our customers. Our calculation of Net Dollar Retention Rate may differ from similarly titled metrics presented by other companies. Remaining Performance Obligations. Remaining Performance Obligations represents the amount of contracted future revenue that has not yet been delivered, including both subscription and professional services revenues. Remaining Performance Obligations consists of both deferred revenue and contracted non-cancelable amounts that will be invoiced and recognized in future periods. We expect to recognize 71% of our Remaining Performance Obligations as revenue over the next 12 months, and the remainder over a period of four years, in each case, in accordance with our revenue recognition policy; however, we cannot guarantee that any portion of our Remaining Performance Obligations will be recognized as revenue within the timeframe we expect or at all.
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FY2026 Q2 earnings call transcript
Good morning, everyone, and welcome to the Kaltura second quarter 2026 earnings call. All material contained in the webcast is the sole property and copyright of Kaltura with all rights reserved. For opening remarks and introductions, I will now turn the call over to Erica Mannion at Sapphire Investor Relations. Please go ahead, Erica.
Thank you, operator, and good morning. I'm joined by Ron Yekutiel, Kaltura's Co-founder, Chairman, President, and Chief Executive Officer, and Liron Sharon, Executive Vice President of FP&A and Interim Principal Financial Officer. Ron will begin with a summary of the results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2026, and provide a business update. Liron will then review the financial results for the second quarter of 2026 in greater detail, followed by the company's outlook for the third quarter and full year 2026. We will then open the call for questions.
Please note that this call will include forward-looking statements within the meaning of the federal securities laws, including but not limited to, statements regarding Kaltura's expected future financial results, management's expectations and plans for the business, including execution on strategic transition and upcoming product launches, integration and expected benefits of our recent acquisitions, our deal pipeline, trends in customer engagement, anticipated tailwinds, and our expectations around capabilities and benefits of our products, including AI technologies. These statements are neither promises nor guarantees and involve risks and uncertainties that may cause actual results to differ materially from those discussed here.
Important factors that could cause actual results to differ from forward-looking statements can be found in the Risk Factors section of Kaltura's annual report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2025, and other SEC filings, including the quarterly report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended June 30, 2026, to be filed with the SEC. Any forward-looking statements made during this conference call, including responses to your questions, are based on current expectations as of today, and Kaltura assumes no obligation to update or revise them, whether as a result of new developments or otherwise, except as required by law. Please note we will be discussing non-GAAP financial measures, adjusted EBITDA, adjusted EBITDA margin, and non-GAAP gross margin during this call.
For a reconciliation of these measures to the most directly comparable GAAP metric, please refer to our earnings release, which is available on our website at investors.kaltura.com. Now I'd like to turn the call over to Ron.
Thank you, Erica, thank you everyone for joining us today. We continued our strong execution in the second quarter, exceeding the high end of our guidance for both revenue and adjusted EBITDA. Total revenue was $46.9 million, up 5% year-over-year. Subscription revenue was $45.6 million, up 8% year-over-year. Adjusted EBITDA was $5.9 million, up 44% year-over-year, representing our highest second quarter result to date. We also delivered a record non-GAAP gross margin of 75%. New subscription bookings grew sequentially included 13 six-digit total contract value deals. Five of these were with new logos across the financial services, healthcare, and education industries. Beyond the strong financial results, the most important development during the quarter was the meaningful increase in the number of new deals that included our AI product.
Given this transition is still just beginning, we want to provide more detail than we normally would about where we see adoption, which products customers are selecting, and the business problems they're beginning to address. During the second quarter, we signed a record 14 new deals that included one or more of our AI offerings, representing a doubling of our previous record. Nine of these 14 deals included our new Agentic Avatars product. Four had six-digit total contract values. Eight were with new logos. The deals reflect a broad range of industries and use cases. Four were with higher education institutions, ed tech companies, and publishers that collectively engage tens of thousands of students. These customers intend to use our products to deliver richer and more personalized teaching and learning experiences.
Three were with real estate companies, including two subsidiaries of an organization with a network of hundreds of thousands of agents. One deal focused on personalized agent onboarding and training, while the other two focused on online property discovery, customer engagement, and lead qualification. Two were with technology companies, including a Fortune 10 company. One customer plans to use our technology for AI-enabled employee onboarding and training. The other plans to deploy a personalized customer concierge across its websites and virtual events. Two were with global consulting and business process outsourcing leaders. Both are Fortune 500 companies with hundreds of thousands of employees. One is using our products for employee onboarding, learning, and development. The other for personalized customer marketing. Two were with financial services companies that each manage trillions of dollars in assets.
One plans to use our products for personalized employee knowledge sharing and internal communications, while the other plans to use our products for interactive marketing and demand engagement. Finally, one was with Media and Telecommunications customer that intends to use our products for conversational advertising and point-of-sale experiences in large venues. All combined, these deals span six industries in a broad mix of employee, learner, customer, and audience-facing use cases, providing early evidence that adoption is not limited to one vertical, buyer, or workflow. From a revenue perspective, as expected, the contribution from these 14 deals remains limited. The combined total contract value is approximately $1 million. We view these deals as initial footholds that may expand over time to additional users, usage, business units, and use cases.
Consistent with the outlook we shared last quarter, we continue to expect initial revenue contributions from our new products in the second half of 2026, followed by a more meaningful ramp in 2027. I would now like to provide more details about our growing pipeline across all products, the increasing role that AI products are playing within it, and why we remain confident in the opportunity ahead. Our current pipeline for new subscription bookings in the second half indicates the potential to book more than two and a half times what we booked during the first half of the year. This expected growth is being driven by both our Enterprise, Education, and Technology business and our Media and Telecom business.
Looking at our sales pipeline of deals that also include one or more AI products for the second half of 2026 and 2027, we currently have more than 500 opportunities at various stages of engagement. These opportunities currently represent, in total, approximately $17 million of total non-weighted potential annual contract value, ACV. It is important to put that figure in context. This is a non-weighted pipeline number, which includes the full value of all deals across pipeline stages. While not all of these opportunities will convert to wins, it's worth noting that most of our AI products were launched very recently, our go-to-market motion is still developing, and many of these engagements remain in early stage of discovery and could grow, and additional opportunities are expected to emerge. We therefore view the current pipeline as an encouraging initial indicator rather than as a mature representation of the longer-term opportunity.
Let me provide more details about the composition of the current AI-related pipeline. About a third of the number of these opportunities and of the potential ACV comes from new logos. By industry, more than one-third of potential ACV comes from educational institutions, ed tech companies, and publishers. About 25% comes from Media and Telecommunications companies. Approximately 40% comes from enterprises across a range of industries led by technology, financial services, healthcare and life sciences, professional services, and consulting and government. By product, the pipeline includes over 200 opportunities involving our Agentic Avatars and close to 100 involving our Avatar Video Production Studio. It also includes over 60 proofs of concept that are either already active or currently being scoped. We see similarly broad patterns when we examine the pipeline by use case. About one-third of potential ACV is associated with personalized employee journeys.
These include employee onboarding, learning and development, compliance, sales enablement, knowledge sharing, internal communications, practice, role-playing simulation. Another roughly one-third is associated with personalized learner journeys delivered by universities, ed tech companies, and publishers. Approximately one-sixth relates to customer and partner journeys. These include onboarding, education and activation, marketing and demand engagement, digital sales rooms, customer care, and support. The remaining approximately one-sixth relates to audience journeys delivered by media and telecommunications companies, including interactive experiences for television viewers and audiences in physical venues. Together, these patterns suggest that the opportunity is developing across multiple industries and repeatable use cases, with agentic avatars emerging as an important entry point into the broader Kaltura platform. Turning to retention. We also delivered strong performance during the second quarter. The quarter represented our best gross retention results since the fourth quarter of 2022.
We may experience some near-term pressure from certain legacy contracts, including an anticipated roll-off of certain PathFactory customers. However, over time, we expect the transition towards powering agentic digital experiences to support sustainable gross retention and gradually improve net dollar retention. As discussed previously, NDR will lag the improvement in gross retention. Let me now turn to product development. Using the three-layer framework we outlined previously, I will highlight the progress we made during the quarter across content creation, content management and intelligence, and interactive conversational experiences. On the content creation front, we enhanced our avatar production workflows with B-roll and URL-to-video automation, expanded their multilingual capabilities, introduced richer enterprise templates and automated content pipelines, and continued investing in API-first capabilities.
These enhancements are designed to allow customers and partners to embed AI-powered content generation directly into their own applications and workflows and to transform presentations, documents, websites, knowledge bases, and existing media into engaging avatar-led video experiences significantly faster than through traditional production methods. We also continued investing in enterprise governance enabling large organizations to maintain brand consistency, approval processes, permissions, security, and compliance while scaling AI-generated content. On content management and intelligence, we made significant progress integrating the Kaltura and PathFactory platforms. Content and workflows can now be synchronized across the two platforms, bringing together video, documents, webinars, learning content, events, knowledge bases, and customer engagement data. This creates a unified first-party signal layer that can help organizations understand which content performs best, which assets contribute to business outcomes, what users are seeking, and what should be recommended next.
This content intelligence foundation is becoming a core building block for the AI capabilities and solutions we develop. On interactive experiences, we continued embedding conversational AI across our product portfolio. This enables users to move beyond manually searching large content libraries and instead interact with intelligent agents that can understand intent, answer questions, recommend and present relevant information, coach users, and guide them towards successful outcomes. Our platform also continued to receive significant industry recognition during the quarter. Kaltura was named a leader in both the Q2 2026 Forrester Wave for Virtual Event Management Platforms and in the 2026 Aragon Research Globe for Enterprise Video. We were also recognized by ISG Research as an exemplary provider among emerging conversational AI providers and received the Best Event AI Technology award at the Eventex Awards.
Gartner also recognized Kaltura in both its Video Platform Services and Meeting Solutions market guides, we were included in the 2026 WealthTech100 list, honoring the world's most innovative tech companies for wealth management. Our annual Enterprise Connect and Education Connect events also attracted record attendance and featured business and technology leaders from organizations including Morgan Stanley, Cisco, AWS, IBM, and Palo Alto Networks. Looking ahead to the second half of the year, we have an ambitious development roadmap. On the avatar front, we plan to expand beyond facial representation to incorporate richer gestures and emotional expression. We also intend to improve our personalization and context capabilities and develop real-time generative user interface experiences. Instead of presenting users with static, identical, and primarily text-based experiences, these capabilities are intended to enable rich, personalized, and intent-based content journeys that are continuously generated and curated by multi-modal conversational agents.
We now have the core building blocks of our Agentic digital experience platform in place. A major focus for the second half of the year is packaging these capabilities into two comprehensive solutions centered on large and strategic use cases: Agentic Revenue Engagement and Agentic Learning and Enablement. Building on the revenue engagement suite we discussed last quarter, we packaged and showcased the first integrated version of our Agentic Revenue Engagement solution at the recent Adobe Summit, the Forrester B2B Summit, and Salesforce Connection. It combines video and rich media experiences, content intelligence, and conversational AI within an intelligent buyer engagement platform. The solution is intended to help organizations understand customer buying intent, create personalized buyer journeys, recommend the next-best content, automate follow-up, support digital sales rooms, and introduce conversational AI throughout the customer life cycle.
We believe this positions Kaltura at the intersection of several important enterprise software categories, including content intelligence, digital sales enablement, account-based marketing, customer engagement, and AI-powered revenue technology. Our differentiation is our ability to combine rich engagement, journey orchestration, and real-time intent-based conversational experiences and enterprise-grade infrastructure within one platform. The adjacent categories addressed by this solution collectively represent an estimated market opportunity of more than $20 billion and are growing at more than 15% annually. These categories include conversational automation, where ChatFactory is already recognized as a leader by Forrester, as well as marketing automation add-ons, revenue enablement, and personalization. In our previous earnings call, we discussed training and learning use cases for employees, customers and partners, and students separately.
We're now bringing these capabilities together within a single Agentic Learning and Enablement solution, spanning employee skilling and reskilling, customer and partner enablement and certification, and teaching and learning within educational institutions. Traditional learning systems primarily deliver predetermined and relatively static courses. We see the future of learning becoming increasingly adaptive, conversational, and personalized. Our Agentic Learning and Enablement solution combines AI-generated learning content, enterprise knowledge, conversational avatars, AI tutors, coaching simulations, skills development, assessments, and personalized learning journeys, all of it together. Rather than delivering the same experience to every user, organizations can dynamically create experiences based on each individual's roles, skills, progress, objectives, and business context. We believe this represents a significant evolution beyond traditional learning management systems. Learning management systems, learning experience platforms, revenue enablement, and customer education are increasingly converging around a common enablement layer.
Collectively, these categories also represent an estimated market opportunity of more than $20 billion. Historically, they've often had separate budgets, buyers, and technology providers. AI is reducing some of those traditional boundaries because the underlying requirements are becoming increasingly similar. A shared content foundation, an intelligence layer, personalization, conversational interaction, and rich media delivery. We believe platforms that can support multiple learning and enablement use cases through a common content and intelligence layer to be increasingly advantaged. To summarize, we delivered a strong second quarter, exceeding our guidance for both revenue and adjusted EBITDA, while continuing to expand non-GAAP profitability. More importantly, we're beginning to see measurable commercial evidence of our AI transition. We increased the number of deals that included our AI offerings across a broad range of industries and use cases. Our AI-related pipeline already includes more than 500 opportunities, representing around $17 million in non-weighted potential ACV.
While not all these opportunities will materialize, we expect many opportunities to grow and many others to be added. The revenue contribution remains limited at this stage, but the growth in bookings, proofs of concept, and pipeline support our confidence in stronger second half momentum and a more meaningful contribution in 2027. We enter the second half of the year with a stronger pipeline, a clear solution focus, and increased confidence as reflected in our updated guidance. With that, I will turn the call over to Liron. Liron?
Thanks, Ron, and hello to everyone on the call today. As Ron noted, in the second quarter, we continued to execute well, exceeding the high end of our guidance for subscription revenue, total revenue, and adjusted EBITDA. We also posted a record non-GAAP gross margin of 75%, driven by a record non-GAAP subscription gross margin of 79%. Let me now walk through the quarter in more detail. Total revenue for the quarter ended June 30, 2026 was $46.9 million, up 5% sequentially and 5% year-over-year. Subscription revenue was $45.6 million, up 6% sequentially and 8% year-over-year. Professional services revenue was $1.3 million, down 13% sequentially and 14% year-over-year, consistent with our focus on recurring subscription revenue. On a segment basis, EE&T total revenue was $36.8 million, up 11% year-over-year, and subscription revenue was $36.4 million, up 12% year-over-year, while professional services revenue contributed $0.4 million, down 43% year-over-year.
Within M&T, total revenue was $10.1 million, down 10% year-over-year, and subscription revenue was $9.2 million, down 6% year-over-year, while professional services revenue contributed $0.9 million, down 38% year-over-year. GAAP gross profit for the second quarter was $34.5 million, resulting in gross margin of 74%, up 300 basis points from Q2 2025. GAAP subscription gross margin was 78%, up 100 basis points from Q2 2025. The year-over-year improvement in gross margin reflects the continued benefit of our mix shift toward higher margin subscription revenue, operating efficiencies, and the impact of unit economics. GAAP operating expenses for the quarter were $35.3 million compared to $34 million in the second quarter of 2025, an increase of 4% year-over-year. This includes the impact of the eSelf.ai and PathFactory acquisitions, integration costs, continuous investment in our new product portfolio, and FX headwinds of approximately $1 million.
Adjusted EBITDA for the quarter was $5.9 million, an increase of $1.8 million from $4.1 million in the second quarter of 2025, and above the high end of our guidance range of $2 million-$3 million. Adjusted EBITDA margin was 12%, an increase of 300 basis points year-over-year, demonstrating our ability to expand non-GAAP profitability while continuing to invest in our AI roadmap, product innovation, and acquisition integration. GAAP net loss for the quarter was $5.5 million, or $0.04 per diluted share compared to a net loss of $7.8 million or $0.05 per diluted share in Q2 2025. Non-GAAP net profit for the quarter was $2.3 million or $0.01 per diluted share, compared to a net profit of $2.5 million or $0.01 per diluted share in Q2 2025. Remaining performance obligations or RPO were $164.3 million, up 6% sequentially and down 1% year-over-year.
We expect to recognize 71% of this amount as revenue over the next 12 months. Annualized recurring revenue for the second quarter was $184.6 million, up 9% sequentially and 8% year-over-year. Net dollar retention for the quarter was 96%, compared to 95% in the prior quarter and 101% in the same quarter last year. As a reminder, NDR is a legacy indicator and reflects prior period bookings and retention dynamics. At the same time, this quarter we achieved our strongest growth retention performance since the fourth quarter of 2022. Moving to the balance sheet and cash flow, we ended the quarter with $35.5 million in cash equivalents, and marketable securities. Net cash used in operating activities in the quarter was $2 million, compared to $2.7 million generated from operating activities in the second quarter of 2025.
We expect to generate cash flow from operations in the third and fourth quarters of the year, consistent with historical seasonality. Beyond the reported financial results, the second quarter represents continuous progress in our strategic evolution toward a broader agentic digital experience platform. As Ron discussed, our AI-related new bookings and sales pipeline have materially grown in the past quarter. We have also made solid progress with the integration of PathFactory into our platform and go-to-market motions while continuing to remain disciplined in how we allocate capital and manage expenses. I will now turn to our outlook for the third quarter of 2026 and for the full fiscal year ending December 31, 2026. For the third quarter of 2026, we expect subscription revenue to be between $43.9 million and $44.6 million, representing year-over-year growth of 5%-6%.
Total revenue to be between $45.8 million and $46.5 million, representing year-over-year growth of 4%-6%, and adjusted EBITDA to be between $2 million and $3 million. For the full year 2026, we are thoughtfully raising all our guidance numbers and slightly narrowing the revenue guidance ranges. We now expect subscription revenue to be between $176.6 million and $178.6 million, representing year-over-year growth of 3%-4%. Total revenue to be between $183 million and $185 million, representing year-over-year growth of 1%-2%, and adjusted EBITDA to be between $15.8 million and $17.2 million. Our guidance continues to reflect our goal of maintaining balance between investing in our strategic growth areas and maintaining adjusted EBITDA profitability and cash flow generation.
We expect Enterprise, Education, and Technology to post a higher year-over-year growth rate compared with 2025, supported by the contribution from the PathFactory customer base and the early contribution from our new product portfolio in the second half of 2026, with a stronger impact in 2027. We continue to forecast M&T year-over-year revenue decline this year due to the elevated churn in 2025, but still expect to post both higher M&T new bookings and retention this year, which are forecasted to regenerate sequential quarterly M&T revenue growth in 2027. We also continue to forecast a material year-over-year reduction this year in revenue from professional services in both EE&T and M&T, aligned with our strategic focus on recurring subscription revenues. On the cost side, our guidance incorporates the expected costs associated with PathFactory integration, continued investment in our new product portfolio, and the expected impact of FX headwinds.
To summarize, the second quarter demonstrated continued execution against both our financial and strategic priorities. We exceeded our guidance for revenue and adjusted EBITDA, achieved record gross margin, and delivered our strongest gross retention performance since the fourth quarter of 2022. While the revenue contribution from our newer AI offering remains early, the continued increase in customer engagement, booking activity, proof of concept and pipeline gives us confidence in the long-term opportunity ahead. We remain focused on disciplined execution and on balancing growth and profitability as we continue to advance our strategic transition and maximize long-term shareholder value. With that, we will open the call for questions. Operator?
Thank you. We will now be conducting a question and answer session. If you would like to ask a question, please press star one on your telephone keypad. A confirmation tone will indicate your line is in the question queue. You may press star two if you would like to remove your question from the queue. For participants using speaker equipment, it may be necessary to pick up your handset before pressing the star keys. One moment, please, while we pull for questions. The first question is from DJ Hynes from Canaccord Genuity. Please go ahead.
Hey, good morning, guys. Thanks for taking the questions. Ron, nice to see some of the new logo activity in the quarter. The avatar technology in particular seems to be getting you into some new markets. Can you just talk about distribution efforts there? How are you building the pipeline? How are you breaking into these new verticals? Where do you see the most interesting opportunities in the pipeline?
Yeah, DJ, thank you for that, and good morning to everybody. Yeah, exciting growth and opportunities coming within the AI space as we expected. You had mentioned new logos. Indeed, there is a pickup, and the pipeline suggests that there's 33% right now the pipelines of new logos, and that's picking up and growing. We knew because the historical industry we're at, the video industry, came to a point where a lot of the customers stuck to their existing vendors. It was really a fight in the trenches around can you move places where you share with a different vendor, a customer, and you could take their piece, which we've done well, and to have some new logos.
A lot of folks did not want to move, even if we had, and we did, a better solution, because the switching costs and just the headaches associated with that. Now, with the advent of the agentic offerings that we're offering, along with and together with the rest of what we're doing, people are excited to go ahead and make that move, and they're happy to make that move across both. That's exciting. Yeah, we have stated we have a building pipeline. We got a couple of hundred Agentic Avatar opportunities, about 100 Avatar Video Production Studio opportunities, 60+ active in-scope POCs. As I mentioned, the ACV is building up. It's still preliminary, but it's going there. You've asked about distribution of verticals. First, from a go-to-market perspective, to be clear how we're actually doing this, we're still divided to industries.
We have folks going into EDU and M&T separately and within enterprise. We further segmented it to go between tech and healthcare and the rest of the other verticals that are gradually building up. We have vertical separation. We still have geographic between Europe and the U.S. By the way, we see some nice pickup across, but of course, led by the U.S. What's also interesting is we have some interesting channel opportunities that are building up. A lot of them are companies that are also looking to buy internally and then are saying, "You know what? We like that, and we want to use that also as a distributor," which would be interesting. These things would take a bit of time, and we're going to need to deploy first with them for them to see the success and then take this to market beyond.
We've said that before, this solution and these types of solutions have higher ROI, but are also more self-serve in nature, more low touch in nature, enabling not just more customers, but easier deployment and therefore lend themselves well for distribution. Finally, insofar as how our salespeople are actually looking around and selling this, there's kind of four main go-to-market motions or engines. One is the conversational agents, in which we put together Jamie and our Agentic Avatars and ChatFactory from PathFactory and our SDK into one conversational agent that is multi-model. We're pushing that strongly forward. The second is AI content creation, which is Content Lab, plus the Avatar Video Production Studio, plus some other stuff that we've developed since around personalized videos. We're taking all of that, which we have not done before.
Just like conversational agent being new and exciting, the content creation piece is new and exciting. The third are cross-sells between PathFactory and Kaltura. We have a great pipeline that's building up and great opportunities to sell both Kaltura and PathFactory and vice versa. The fourth is taking it all together into full bundle wins, mainly coming into competitors in the traditional industries we're at and saying, "We have all these exciting things that do move the needle for you, and we're happy to do this in a way that's financially appealing." That's quite exciting for folks. We're doing these four offerings across verticals, across regions, across channels, and across the journeys that we've discussed between the customer journey, the employee journey, the learner journey, the audience journey. There's a lot of exciting stuff.
Yeah, super helpful. If I could ask a follow-up on the ARR increase in the quarter. I think it was up a little less than $16 million sequentially. Can you help us unpack how much of that was M&A driven? How much of that was organic Kaltura strengths? I think you alluded also to the expectation for some potential PathFactory attrition as that asset's integrated into the business. Can you just unpack that a little bit and what your expectations are there?
Yeah, happy to do that. You asked about ARR, I think it's easier to answer by way of revenue because some of that is actually reported and stated within the pack. Let's talk about Q2 revenue. We had expected declines in M&T, so that's known. We also had E&T without PathFactory, some decline, but that was expected because of one-time revenue in quarter one, that was on-prem related and one-time related. If you take that out, there was no decline. It was kind of flattish, if you may, without the PathFactory, which is kind of expected right now because it's seasonal coming out of Q1. The net bookings are traditionally not adding stuff. If you take off the on-prem stuff, that kind of remains where it is. PathFactory contributed $4.9 million in revenue out of our $46.9 million in total.
By the way, the same for subscription because it's all subscription there. That's the amount that was there. It's higher than we expected to some extent, but of course, we were cautious because coming into an acquisition, you got to be careful. Also we did say that there's some attrition, and a lot of that is built into what we've taken even before we're doing anything. Because the next two, three quarters are already built in. We expect that number, albeit that it started where it did, to still come down from a PathFactory perspective over the next couple of quarters and then turn around with the other things that we're doing.
Again, if you're unpacking Q2, that's how it's at, kind of flattish and as expected if you take out the on-prem for EE&T, continued decline in M&T as expected, not beyond, and the PathFactory contribution. If we think forward on the Q3 guide and beyond, we're guiding still a sequential decline, again, taking in the usual cushions that we have. When you unpack that, what you're seeing is we're probably going to have, again, still flattish on the EE&T side plus conservatism. It could go up. Some headwinds on PathFactory, that's expected. Again, we overdid revenue on the second quarter. We expect some of these things to catch up in the third quarter and get that reduced, and continued decline in M&T. Kind of sharing the decline, if you may, between M&T and PathFactory, again, with hopefully cushions, let's see.
We are guiding for a little bit of a PS increase into the next quarter, that's what we're taking there. As we look into the rest of the year, kind of the lean guidance for the half of the year, you can see what we're seeing for the rest, you kind of assume it's then starting to pick up. We still expect PathFactory maybe to have some headwind for its original base offering for the next few quarters until we turn it around. The rest of Kaltura, between the growth and what we're seeing now in AI and the opportunities that are building up, are going to overtake that, then we're going to start seeing the sequential pickup there. You can see that slight expectation coming into Q4 as this picks up. Again, not still big, as we said.
As you see for the year, we're increasing guidance. All in all, we're doing ahead of what we expected, for the second time in a row that we're increasing guidance. If you look at expectations for the second half of the year on the subscription basis, they're definitely there a bit above. Again, if you look at the total, there may be some headwinds around PS that we are careful with. All in all, we're moving in the right direction. No surprises. Hopefully going to meet the expectations that are out there, we're really excited about AI, let's see if we could post some bigger wins and update you guys. Does that give you the color you wanted?
Yeah, it's perfect. More than I was looking for, I appreciate all the detail. Thank you.
No, I appreciate that. Thank you.
The next question is from Ryan Koontz from Needham & Company. Please go ahead.
Good morning. Wanted to ask about go-to-market, Ron. As you integrate PathFactory and you've got a new set of products and maybe a new sales motion in some ways, can you characterize how that pivot is happening? Are you doing retraining of your existing sales force? Are you hiring the new skills? How are you managing the people and process side of rolling out your new agentic and avatar capabilities within the product set?
Thank you so much, Ryan, and looking forward to speaking at your event next week. Thank you so much for having us. Yeah, we're excited. As always, we're training. We're going again and again through many trainings. By the way, right now we're going through what we call a Summer Camp, which is a three-day training session, started yesterday, next couple of days. Focused, by the way, even on what's coming next, because what I said earlier to DJ is everything we're doing right now, we've also shared with you guys the two solutions that we're building around the Agentic Revenue Engagement and around the Agentic Learning and Enablement, and we're now fully enabling everybody to go ahead and sell these full solutions. I'll get back to that. Generally speaking, the good news is this is an evolution, not a revolution.
The customers we're going after are the same customers, the buyers are the same buyers. In some cases, they're more. Where Kaltura had a bit less talk about CX experiences and marketing, we're covered now with more PathFactory, and the companies are working great together. Have been onboarding. Leadership came together for multiple day sessions, alignment, working 100% within the different teams, salespeople, go-to-market team, developer teams, everybody is working well. As indeed they're being trained, it is not an earthquake, and it is not suddenly needing to teach them something completely different. It's an evolution state on what we have done. That's why the pipeline is building very nicely. Our existing customers, new logos. Are we hiring more people? Yes. Are we bringing in more talent that's diverse? Yes.
Our existing talent and the existing relationships we already have in place play very strongly towards what we're doing, both with the product mix that I mentioned earlier in the go-to-market motions I just answered DJ and in the two solution sets that we're now launching, which I'm happy to tell you more about.
Great. Really helpful. That's great to hear. You talked about maybe some churn coming on the Path side. What's driving that? Is that kind of roadmap repricing, kind of refocus the R&D efforts around your larger customer opportunities? What's driving some of that down-selling on the Path product?
Yeah. First of all, when we took PathFactory, when we're asked, "What's the order magnitude of revenue?" We said that it's in the teens. If you look at a 4.9 times five, it's almost 20. The reason is we left cushion because we were asked about the run rate, and we knew the run rate might come down. We also said, as we acquired the company, that it was a declining revenue company, not because it's not amazing technology and amazing customers, but because of the positioning of the base core standalone PathFactory product. As a layer for content and user intelligence that is enabling to create customer journeys, it was kind of fighting between some other players out there, doing a lot more, doing better, doing exciting things, but being somewhat pushed out by some of the other guys.
The difference is as we take them, and we said that in the acquisition, is we're not taking PathFactory just to sell PathFactory standalone, but more so, and most importantly, and number one, is to turn that into the "brains" of our agentic motion, where you're putting together their understanding of content and users and orchestration of journeys together with our content management and experience layers and content creation layers put together. Now we're pushing and promoting our Agentic Revenue Platform. We're talking about everything from taking organizational context to understanding buyer intelligence, to creating engaging experiences, to creating revenue activation, and it's put together. That's why people love how it comes together into an end-to-end agent. It's not just the brain, it's the brain within the full experience. This is the great potential.
This is why we acquired the company, not to take its existing exact go-to-market motion, existing exact product. That being said, we're also seeing, even within those that are just wanting to buy PathFactory, there is a rejuvenated interest because it's now in a stronger company. We're doing this with more opportunities and more marketing with our existing customer base. We absolutely are seeing folks that are just buying PathFactory as is, which is a great product. The expectation as we move forward is for it to somewhat glide, given past relationships that have already come to bear, even past acquisitions that they've made that are going through migrations and some folks moving. There is a certain conservatism also that we're factoring in. As you've seen, we beat this quarter, and we've hopefully continued to beat as we've done in the past.
While we expect the core product to be good and well and hopefully grow, but we're cautious, the combination is where we are really going on all four cylinders. Let me add, because I spoke about the Agentic Revenue Engagement and the big part that they play there, plus the domain expertise in CX, it is the same brain around orchestration that is then being used towards our Agentic Learning and Enablement solution to build the knowledge graphs and to build the content logic and understanding for training enablement. Which, by the way, does not go just for employees. It's training enablement for customers and for partners, so it's also customer experience. These things are conversations we're already having in the market as we speak.
To summarize for PathFactory, a turnaround on their core business because of the acquisition, conservatism, and some headwinds in the short term, which was baked in already, and we had assumed there was some pleasant surprise in Q2, we expect more of it. The big bonanza is what we had always said, the combination into our Agentic Revenue Solution and coming after that, the Learning and Enablement Solution with the brains within our agents.
Really helpful, Ron. Thanks for that.
As a reminder to ask a question, please press star one. There are no further questions at this time. I would like to turn the floor back over to Ron Yekutiel for closing comments.
Thank you, everybody. Again, as said, I think a good, solid, strong quarter, achieving our numbers, but really continuing to keep our eye into the future as we continue to build our AI offerings and move to become a full digital experience platform. We have our pipeline showing for it. We shared a lot more than we usually do to start giving you a feel for where it's going. We said the impact's going to be in the second half of the year. We continue to expect that. We've increased numbers accordingly. All eyes are in the future as we turn these opportunities into wins and share them with you in the next few quarters. Looking forward to the Canaccord event again next week. Thank you all for participating. Have a beautiful week.
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Investor releaseQuarter not tagged2026-07-14Kaltura to Announce Financial Results for Second Quarter 2026 on Wednesday, August 5, 2026
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Kaltura to Announce Financial Results for Second Quarter 2026 on Wednesday, August 5, 2026
NEW YORK, July 14, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Kaltura (Nasdaq: KLTR), the Agentic Digital Experience company, today announced it will release its second quarter financial results for the period ended June 30, 2026, before market open on Wednesday, August 5, 2026. Management will host a conference call to review the Company’s second quarter 2026 financial results and discuss the financial outlook. A live and archived webcast will be available in the Investor Relations section of Kaltura’s website at: https://investors.kaltura.com/news-and-events/events About KalturaKaltura’s mission is to power rich, agentic digital experiences across organizational journeys for customers, employees, learners, and audiences. Its platform combines content creation, enterprise-grade content management and intelligence, and multimodal conversational engagement. Kaltura serves leading enterprises, financial institutions, educational institutions, media and telecom providers, and other organizations worldwide. For more information, visit www.corp.kaltura.com Investor Contacts:Kaltura, Inc.Liron SharonInterim Principal Financial [email protected] Sapphire Investor Relations, LLCErica Mannion and Michael [email protected]+1-617-542-6180 Media Contacts:Kaltura, Inc.Nohar [email protected] Headline MediaRaanan [email protected] +1-347-897-9276
Investor releaseQuarter not tagged2026-05-14US$3.50 - That's What Analysts Think Kaltura, Inc. (NASDAQ:KLTR) Is Worth After These Results
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US$3.50 - That's What Analysts Think Kaltura, Inc. (NASDAQ:KLTR) Is Worth After These Results
Investors in Kaltura, Inc. (NASDAQ:KLTR) had a good week, as its shares rose 3.6% to close at US$1.45 following the release of its quarterly results. Revenue of US$45m came in 3.8% ahead of expectations, although statutory earnings didn't fare nearly so well, recording a loss of US$0.03, a 20% miss. This is an important time for investors, as they can track a company's performance in its report, look at what experts are forecasting for next year, and see if there has been any change to expectations for the business. We thought readers would find it interesting to see the analysts latest (statutory) post-earnings forecasts for next year. This technology could replace computers: discover the 20 stocks are working to make quantum computing a reality. After the latest results, the dual analysts covering Kaltura are now predicting revenues of US$183.7m in 2026. If met, this would reflect a modest 2.9% improvement in revenue compared to the last 12 months. Losses are predicted to fall substantially, shrinking 28% to US$0.07. Yet prior to the latest earnings, the analysts had been forecasting revenues of US$182.6m and losses of US$0.085 per share in 2026. While the revenue estimates were largely unchanged, sentiment seems to have improved, with the analysts upgrading their numbers and making a cut to losses per share in particular. Check out our latest analysis for Kaltura The average price target rose 11% to US$3.50, with the analysts signalling that the forecast reduction in losses would be a positive for the stock's valuation. Another way we can view these estimates is in the context of the bigger picture, such as how the forecasts stack up against past performance, and whether forecasts are more or less bullish relative to other companies in the industry. We can infer from the latest estimates that forecasts expect a continuation of Kaltura'shistorical trends, as the 3.9% annualised revenue growth to the end of 2026 is roughly in line with the 3.9% annual growth over the past five years. By contrast, our data suggests that other companies (with analyst coverage) in a similar industry are forecast to see their revenues grow 17% per year. So it's pretty clear that Kaltura is expected to grow slower than similar companies in the same industry. The most obvious conclusion is that the analysts made no changes to their forecasts for a loss next year. Fortunately, the…Read full documentShow less
Investors in Kaltura, Inc. (NASDAQ:KLTR) had a good week, as its shares rose 3.6% to close at US$1.45 following the release of its quarterly results. Revenue of US$45m came in 3.8% ahead of expectations, although statutory earnings didn't fare nearly so well, recording a loss of US$0.03, a 20% miss. This is an important time for investors, as they can track a company's performance in its report, look at what experts are forecasting for next year, and see if there has been any change to expectations for the business. We thought readers would find it interesting to see the analysts latest (statutory) post-earnings forecasts for next year. This technology could replace computers: discover the 20 stocks are working to make quantum computing a reality. After the latest results, the dual analysts covering Kaltura are now predicting revenues of US$183.7m in 2026. If met, this would reflect a modest 2.9% improvement in revenue compared to the last 12 months. Losses are predicted to fall substantially, shrinking 28% to US$0.07. Yet prior to the latest earnings, the analysts had been forecasting revenues of US$182.6m and losses of US$0.085 per share in 2026. While the revenue estimates were largely unchanged, sentiment seems to have improved, with the analysts upgrading their numbers and making a cut to losses per share in particular. Check out our latest analysis for Kaltura The average price target rose 11% to US$3.50, with the analysts signalling that the forecast reduction in losses would be a positive for the stock's valuation. Another way we can view these estimates is in the context of the bigger picture, such as how the forecasts stack up against past performance, and whether forecasts are more or less bullish relative to other companies in the industry. We can infer from the latest estimates that forecasts expect a continuation of Kaltura'shistorical trends, as the 3.9% annualised revenue growth to the end of 2026 is roughly in line with the 3.9% annual growth over the past five years. By contrast, our data suggests that other companies (with analyst coverage) in a similar industry are forecast to see their revenues grow 17% per year. So it's pretty clear that Kaltura is expected to grow slower than similar companies in the same industry. The most obvious conclusion is that the analysts made no changes to their forecasts for a loss next year. Fortunately, the analysts also reconfirmed their revenue estimates, suggesting that it's tracking in line with expectations. Although our data does suggest that Kaltura's revenue is expected to perform worse than the wider industry. We note an upgrade to the price target, suggesting that the analysts believes the intrinsic value of the business is likely to improve over time. With that in mind, we wouldn't be too quick to come to a conclusion on Kaltura. Long-term earnings power is much more important than next year's profits. We have analyst estimates for Kaltura going out as far as 2027, and you can see them free on our platform here. Even so, be aware that Kaltura is showing 1 warning sign in our investment analysis , you should know about... Have feedback on this article? Concerned about the content? Get in touch with us directly. Alternatively, email editorial-team (at) simplywallst.com. This article by Simply Wall St is general in nature. We provide commentary based on historical data and analyst forecasts only using an unbiased methodology and our articles are not intended to be financial advice. It does not constitute a recommendation to buy or sell any stock, and does not take account of your objectives, or your financial situation. We aim to bring you long-term focused analysis driven by fundamental data. Note that our analysis may not factor in the latest price-sensitive company announcements or qualitative material. Simply Wall St has no position in any stocks mentioned.
Investor releaseQuarter not tagged2026-05-12Kaltura Announces Financial Results for First Quarter 2026
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Kaltura Announces Financial Results for First Quarter 2026
Kaltura released an updated investors presentation that showcases its interactive agentic-AI avatar technology NEW YORK, May 11, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Kaltura, Inc. (Nasdaq: KLTR, “Kaltura” or the “Company”), the Agentic Digital Experience company, today announced financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2026, as well as outlook for second quarter and full year 2026. The Company’s investor presentation for the quarter, which now showcases its agentic avatar technology, is available at: https://q1-26-avatar.kaltura.com/ Total revenue for the first quarter was $44.6 million, with subscription revenue of $43.2 million. Adjusted EBITDA for the quarter was $5.7 million. All three results were above the high end of their guidance range. Ron Yekutiel, Co-Founder, Chairman, President, and Chief Executive Officer of Kaltura, said, “We are off to a strong start in 2026, exceeding the high end of our guidance across all key metrics and delivering our first Q1 with positive operating cash flow. During the quarter, we launched new avatar-based products and signed the PathFactory acquisition, which closed shortly after quarter end. We’ve made meaningful progress over the quarter in our transition to powering rich, agentic digital experiences across organizational journeys, with growing customer engagement, expanding use cases, and early signs of momentum across our new offerings. We look forward to engaging with customers and partners at our upcoming Kaltura Connect on the Road events.” First Quarter 2026 Business Highlights Exceeded the high end of guidance across revenue and adjusted EBITDA and achieved positive cash flow from operations in a first quarter for the first time in the company’s history. New subscription bookings followed typical seasonal patterns, including one seven-digit and fourteen six-digit new deals, as well as three new AI-related deals. Achieved the highest gross retention level in the past five quarters, reflecting improving customer stability. Expanded AI capabilities across the platform, including the general availability of conversational Agentic Avatar and its Software Development Kit (SDK). Achieved ISO/IEC 42001 certification for Artificial Intelligence Management Systems, reinforcing Kaltura’s commitment to responsible enterprise-grade AI deployment. Continued to make progress in the company’s strategic transition toward p…Read full documentShow less
Kaltura released an updated investors presentation that showcases its interactive agentic-AI avatar technology NEW YORK, May 11, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Kaltura, Inc. (Nasdaq: KLTR, “Kaltura” or the “Company”), the Agentic Digital Experience company, today announced financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2026, as well as outlook for second quarter and full year 2026. The Company’s investor presentation for the quarter, which now showcases its agentic avatar technology, is available at: https://q1-26-avatar.kaltura.com/ Total revenue for the first quarter was $44.6 million, with subscription revenue of $43.2 million. Adjusted EBITDA for the quarter was $5.7 million. All three results were above the high end of their guidance range. Ron Yekutiel, Co-Founder, Chairman, President, and Chief Executive Officer of Kaltura, said, “We are off to a strong start in 2026, exceeding the high end of our guidance across all key metrics and delivering our first Q1 with positive operating cash flow. During the quarter, we launched new avatar-based products and signed the PathFactory acquisition, which closed shortly after quarter end. We’ve made meaningful progress over the quarter in our transition to powering rich, agentic digital experiences across organizational journeys, with growing customer engagement, expanding use cases, and early signs of momentum across our new offerings. We look forward to engaging with customers and partners at our upcoming Kaltura Connect on the Road events.” First Quarter 2026 Business Highlights Exceeded the high end of guidance across revenue and adjusted EBITDA and achieved positive cash flow from operations in a first quarter for the first time in the company’s history. New subscription bookings followed typical seasonal patterns, including one seven-digit and fourteen six-digit new deals, as well as three new AI-related deals. Achieved the highest gross retention level in the past five quarters, reflecting improving customer stability. Expanded AI capabilities across the platform, including the general availability of conversational Agentic Avatar and its Software Development Kit (SDK). Achieved ISO/IEC 42001 certification for Artificial Intelligence Management Systems, reinforcing Kaltura’s commitment to responsible enterprise-grade AI deployment. Continued to make progress in the company’s strategic transition toward powering rich, agentic digital experiences across organizational journeys, with growing customer engagement, expanding use cases, and early signs of momentum across its emerging offerings. Announced partnerships with Cornerstone to deliver integrated AI-powered digital learning experiences, and with Descript to provide enterprises integrated AI-powered video capabilities. Subsequent Events Completed the acquisition of PathFactory on April 1, 2026 (signed in the first quarter), adding content intelligence and journey orchestration capabilities that enable understanding of user intent and the delivery of personalized digital experiences, and showcased an integrated ‘Agentic Revenue Engagement Platform’ at Adobe Summit 2026. Announced the general availability of an Avatar Video Production Studio for the creation of avatar-narrated recorded videos (beta unveiled in the first quarter). First Quarter 2026 Financial Highlights Total revenue for the first quarter of 2026 was $44.6 million, a decrease of 5% compared to $47.0 million for the first quarter of 2025. Subscription revenue for the first quarter of 2026 was $43.2 million, a decrease of 4% compared to $44.9 million for the first quarter of 2025. On a reporting-segment basis, Enterprise, Education and Technology (EE&T) total revenue declined 1% year-over-year in the first quarter, while Media & Telecom (M&T) total revenue declined 17% year-over-year, primarily due to elevated gross churn throughout 2025. Annualized Recurring Revenue (ARR) for the first quarter of 2026 was $168.8 million, a decrease of 3% compared to $174.8 million for the first quarter of 2025. GAAP Gross profit for the first quarter of 2026 was $32.1 million, representing a gross margin of 72% compared to a GAAP gross profit of $32.7 million and gross margin of 70% for the first quarter of 2025. Subscription gross margin was flat year-over-year at 77%. Non-GAAP Gross profit for the first quarter of 2026 was $32.3 million, representing a non-GAAP gross margin of 72%, compared to a non-GAAP gross profit of $33.0 million and non-GAAP gross margin of 70% for the first quarter of 2025. Total operating expenses for the first quarter of 2026 were $33.3 million, compared to $34.3 million for the first quarter of 2025. GAAP Operating loss for the first quarter of 2026 was $1.2 million, compared to $1.6 million for the first quarter of 2025. Non-GAAP Operating profit for the first quarter of 2026 was $4.6 million, compared to $3.1 million for the first quarter of 2025. GAAP Net loss was $3.8 million or $0.03 per diluted share for the first quarter of 2026, compared to a GAAP net loss of $1.1 million, or $0.01 per diluted share, for the first quarter of 2025. Non-GAAP Net profit was $2.1 million or $0.01 per diluted share for the first quarter of 2026, compared to a non-GAAP net profit of $2.0 million, or $0.01 per diluted share, for the first quarter of 2025. Adjusted EBITDA was $5.7 million for the first quarter of 2026, compared to Adjusted EBITDA of $4.1 million for the first quarter of 2025. Balance Sheet and Cash Flow The balance of cash, cash equivalents, and marketable securities at the end of the first quarter was $61.8 million. Net cash provided by operating activities was $0.7 million for the first quarter of 2026, compared to net cash used in operating activities of $1.0 million in the first quarter of 2025. Financial Outlook For the second quarter of 2026, the Company expects: Subscription revenue to grow 2-4% year-over-year to between $43.3 million and $44.1 million Total revenue to grow between 2-3% year-over-year to between $45.2 million and $46.0 million Adjusted EBITDA to be between $2.0 million and $3.0 million For the full year ending December 31, 2026, the Company expects: Subscription revenue to grow 1-3% to between $174.5 million and $176.7 million Total revenue to grow 1-2% to between $182.6 million and $184.8 million Adjusted EBITDA to be between $13.8 million and $15.2 million The Company’s outlook reflects the recurring nature of its business, expected revenue timing patterns during the year, foreign exchange trends, and anticipated investments related to the integration and expansion of its recently acquired AI capabilities, including the recent acquisitions of eSelf and PathFactory. The guidance provided above contains forward-looking statements and actual results may differ materially. Refer to “Forward-Looking Statements” below for information on the factors that could cause our actual results to differ materially from these forward-looking statements. Kaltura has not provided a quantitative reconciliation of forecasted Adjusted EBITDA to forecasted GAAP net loss within this press release because the Company is unable, without making unreasonable efforts, to calculate certain reconciling items with confidence. The reconciliation for Adjusted EBITDA includes but is not limited to the following items: stock-based compensation expenses, depreciation, amortization, financial expenses (income), net, provision for income tax, and other non-recurring operating expenses. These items, which could materially affect the computation of forward-looking GAAP net loss, are inherently uncertain and depend on various factors, some of which are outside of the Company’s control. The guidance above is based on the Company's current expectations relating to the macro-economic climate trends. Additional information on Kaltura’s reported results, including a reconciliation of the non-GAAP financial measures to their most comparable GAAP measures, is included in the financial tables below. Investor Deck The Company’s investor presentation for the quarter, which now showcases its agentic avatar technology, is available at: https://q1-26-avatar.kaltura.com/ Conference Call Kaltura will host a conference call today on May 11, 2026 to review its first quarter financial results and to discuss its financial outlook. A live webcast will also be available in the Investor Relations section of Kaltura’s website at: https://investors.kaltura.com/news-and-events/events. A replay of the webcast will be available in the Investor Relations section of the company’s web site approximately two hours after the conclusion of the call and remain available for approximately 30 calendar days. About Kaltura Kaltura’s mission is to power rich, agentic digital experiences across organizational journeys for customers, employees, learners, and audiences. Its platform combines intelligent content creation, enterprise-grade content management and intelligence, and multimodal conversational engagement capabilities. Kaltura serves leading enterprises, financial institutions, educational institutions, media and telecom providers, and other organizations worldwide. For more information, visit www.corp.kaltura.com. Investor Contacts: Kaltura Liron Sharon Interim Principal Financial Officer [email protected] Sapphire Investor Relations Erica Mannion and Michael Funari +1 617 542 6180 [email protected] Media Contacts: Kaltura Nohar Zmora SVP Marketing [email protected] Headline Media Raanan Loew [email protected] +1 347 897 9276 Forward-Looking Statements This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. All statements contained in this press release that do not relate to matters of historical fact should be considered forward-looking statements, including but not limited to, statements regarding our future financial and operating performance, including our guidance and long-term targets; our business strategy, plans and objectives for future operations; our transaction with PathFactory, including the timing thereof; expectations with respect to our products and capabilities, including the adoption and performance of our new AI-driven technologies; our expectations regarding potential profitability and growth; and general economic, business and industry conditions, including expectations with respect to trends in customer consolidation. 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Subsequent events may cause these expectations to change, and we disclaim any obligation to update the forward-looking statements in the future, except as required by law. These forward-looking statements are subject to known and unknown risks and uncertainties that may cause actual results to differ materially from our current expectations. Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those anticipated in our forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, the current volatile economic climate and its direct and indirect impact on our business and operations; political, economic, and military conditions in Israel and other geographies; our ability to retain our customers and meet demand; our ability to achieve and maintain profitability; the evolution of the markets for our offerings; our ability to keep pace with technological and competitive developments; risks associated with our use of certain artificial intelligence and machine learning models; our ability to maintain the interoperability of our offerings across devices, operating systems and third-party applications; risks associated with our Application Programming Interfaces, other components in our offerings and other intellectual property; our ability to compete successfully against current and future competitors; our ability to increase customer revenue; conditions in the regions in which we operate; risks related to our approach to revenue recognition; our potential exposure to cybersecurity threats; our compliance with data privacy and data protection laws; the potential impact of the EU Data Act ; our ability to meet our contractual commitments under customer agreements; our reliance on third parties; our dependence on and ability to retain our key personnel; risks related to revenue mix and customer base; risks related to our international operations; risks related to potential acquisitions; risks related to real or perceived issues with our platform, products or solutions; our ability to generate or raise additional capital; risks related to changes or developments in U.S. or international laws or policies; and the other risks under the caption “Risk Factors” in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2025, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”), as such factors may be updated from time to time in our other filings with the SEC, which are accessible on the SEC’s website at www.sec.gov and the Investor Relations page of our website at investors.kaltura.com. Non-GAAP Financial Measures Kaltura has provided in this press release and the accompanying tables measures of financial information that have not been prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles in the U.S. ("GAAP"), including non-GAAP gross profit, non-GAAP gross margin (calculated as a percentage of revenue), non-GAAP research and development expenses, non-GAAP sales and marketing expenses, non-GAAP general and administrative expenses, non-GAAP operating profit, non-GAAP operating margin (calculated as a percentage of revenue), non-GAAP net profit, non-GAAP net profit per share and Adjusted EBITDA. Beginning with the second quarter of 2025, non-GAAP Net profit (loss) was adjusted for gains or losses from foreign currency translation adjustments, with the recent fluctuation of the U.S dollar, specifically against the Israeli Shekel and less certainty in the global economic environment, Kaltura believes that this change will provide a better reflection of its overall operating performance on an adjusted net profit (loss) basis. Kaltura defines these non-GAAP financial measures as the respective corresponding GAAP measure, adjusted for, as applicable: (1) stock-based compensation expense; (2) the amortization of acquired intangibles; (3) strategic initiatives expenses, (4) foreign currency translation adjustments loss (gain); and (5) change in the fair value of the contingent consideration. Kaltura defines EBITDA as net profit (loss) before financial expenses (income), net, provision for income taxes, and depreciation and amortization expenses. Adjusted EBITDA is defined as EBITDA (as defined above), adjusted for the impact of certain non-cash and other items that we believe are not indicative of our core operating performance, such as non-cash stock-based compensation expenses and certain non-recurring operating expenses. These non-GAAP metrics are a supplemental measure of our performance, are not defined by or presented in accordance with GAAP, and should not be considered in isolation or as an alternative to net profit (loss) or any other performance measure prepared in accordance with GAAP. Non-GAAP financial measures are presented because we believe that they provide useful supplemental information to investors and analysts regarding our operating performance and are frequently used by these parties in evaluating companies in our industry. By presenting these non-GAAP financial measures, we provide a basis for comparison of our business operations between periods by excluding items that we do not believe are indicative of our core operating performance. We believe that investors’ understanding of our performance is enhanced by including these non-GAAP financial measures as a reasonable basis for comparing our ongoing results of operations. Additionally, our management uses these non-GAAP financial measures as supplemental measures of our performance because they assist us in comparing the operating performance of our business on a consistent basis between periods, as described above. Although we use the non-GAAP financial measures described above, such measures have significant limitations as analytical tools and only supplement but do not replace our financial statements in accordance with GAAP. See the tables below regarding reconciliations of these non-GAAP financial measures to the most directly comparable GAAP measures. Key Financial and Operating Metrics Annualized Recurring Revenue. We use Annualized Recurring Revenue (“ARR”) as a measure of our revenue trend and an indicator of our future revenue opportunity from existing recurring customer contracts. We calculate ARR by annualizing our recurring revenue for the most recently completed fiscal quarter. Recurring revenues are generated from SaaS and PaaS subscriptions, as well as term licenses for software installed on the customer's premises (“On-Prem”). For the SaaS and PaaS components, we calculate ARR by annualizing the actual recurring revenue recognized for the latest fiscal quarter. For the On-Prem components for which revenue recognition is not ratable across the license term, we calculate ARR for each contract by dividing the total contract value (excluding professional services) as of the last day of the specified period by the number of days in the contract term and then multiplying by 365. Recurring revenue excludes revenue from one-time professional services and setup fees. ARR is not adjusted for the impact of any known or projected future customer cancellations, upgrades or downgrades or price increases or decreases. The amount of actual revenue that we recognize over any 12-month period is likely to differ from ARR at the beginning of that period, sometimes significantly. This may occur due to new bookings, cancellations, upgrades or downgrades, pending renewals, professional services revenue, foreign exchange rate fluctuations and acquisitions or divestitures. ARR should be viewed independently of revenue as it is an operating metric and is not intended to be a replacement or forecast of revenue. Our calculation of ARR may differ from similarly titled metrics presented by other companies. Net Dollar Retention Rate. Our Net Dollar Retention Rate, which we use to measure our success in retaining and growing recurring revenue from our existing customers, compares our recognized recurring revenue from a set of customers across comparable periods. We calculate our Net Dollar Retention Rate for a given period as the recognized recurring revenue from the latest reported fiscal quarter from the set of customers whose revenue existed in the reported fiscal quarter from the prior year (the numerator), divided by recognized recurring revenue from such customers for the same fiscal quarter in the prior year (denominator). For annual periods, we report Net Dollar Retention Rate as the arithmetic average of the Net Dollar Retention Rate for all fiscal quarters included in the period. We consider subdivisions of the same legal entity (for example, divisions of a parent company or separate campuses that are part of the same state university system) ,as well as Value-add Resellers (“VARs”) (meaning resellers that directly manage the relationship with the customer) and the customers they manage, to be a single customer for purposes of calculating our Net Dollar Retention Rate. Our calculation of Net Dollar Retention Rate for any fiscal period includes the positive recognized recurring revenue impacts of selling new services to existing customers and the negative recognized recurring revenue impacts of contraction and attrition among this set of customers. Our Net Dollar Retention Rate may fluctuate as a result of a number of factors, including the growing level of our revenue base, the level of penetration within our customer base, expansion of products and features, and our ability to retain our customers. Our calculation of Net Dollar Retention Rate may differ from similarly titled metrics presented by other companies. Remaining Performance Obligations. Remaining Performance Obligations represents the amount of contracted future revenue that has not yet been delivered, including both subscription and professional services revenues. Remaining Performance Obligations consists of both deferred revenue and contracted non-cancelable amounts that will be invoiced and recognized in future periods. We expect to recognize 67% of our Remaining Performance Obligations as revenue over the next 12 months, and the remainder over the next four years. However, we cannot guarantee that any portion of our Remaining Performance Obligations will be recognized as revenue within the timeframe we expect or at all.
Investor releaseQuarter not tagged2026-05-12Kaltura Q1 Earnings Call Highlights
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Kaltura Q1 Earnings Call Highlights
Interested in Kaltura, Inc.? Here are five stocks we like better. Kaltura beat Q1 guidance on both revenue and adjusted EBITDA, and posted positive operating cash flow for the first time in company history. Total revenue was $44.6 million, while adjusted EBITDA rose 37% year over year to $5.7 million. The company’s profitability improved even as revenue declined, with gross margin rising to 72% and operating expenses down 3% year over year. Net loss widened on non-cash and acquisition-related costs, but non-GAAP net profit came in at $2.1 million. Kaltura is pushing a major AI-driven strategic transition, highlighted by the PathFactory acquisition, broader conversational avatar tools, and early customer interest across enterprise, education, employee, and media use cases. Management also raised and narrowed full-year 2026 guidance, expecting gradual revenue improvement in the second half of the year. Kaltura (NASDAQ:KLTR) reported first-quarter 2026 results that exceeded its guidance for revenue and adjusted EBITDA, while also generating positive operating cash flow in a first quarter for the first time in the company’s history, executives said on the company’s earnings call. Co-founder, Chairman, President and CEO Ron Yekutiel said total revenue was $44.6 million, down 5% year over year, while subscription revenue was $43.2 million, down 4%. Adjusted EBITDA rose 37% year over year to $5.7 million, which Yekutiel described as the company’s highest first-quarter result to date. → Beyond NVIDIA: Picks-and-Shovels AI Plays with Strong Momentum “These results reflect continued operating discipline, improving retention trends, and steady progress as we execute on our strategic transition,” Yekutiel said. Liron Sharon, executive vice president of FP&A and interim principal financial officer, said total revenue exceeded the company’s guidance range of $42.6 million to $43.4 million. Subscription revenue also topped the guided range of $41.2 million to $42 million. → 3 Ways to Target the Resources Powering AI and Data Centers Sharon attributed the year-over-year revenue decline primarily to elevated Media & Telecom churn experienced in 2025, as well as the timing of activity from a large Enterprise, Education & Technology customer that shifted from large virtual events to smaller events expected later in the year. Professional services revenue was $1.4 million, down…Read full documentShow less
Interested in Kaltura, Inc.? Here are five stocks we like better. Kaltura beat Q1 guidance on both revenue and adjusted EBITDA, and posted positive operating cash flow for the first time in company history. Total revenue was $44.6 million, while adjusted EBITDA rose 37% year over year to $5.7 million. The company’s profitability improved even as revenue declined, with gross margin rising to 72% and operating expenses down 3% year over year. Net loss widened on non-cash and acquisition-related costs, but non-GAAP net profit came in at $2.1 million. Kaltura is pushing a major AI-driven strategic transition, highlighted by the PathFactory acquisition, broader conversational avatar tools, and early customer interest across enterprise, education, employee, and media use cases. Management also raised and narrowed full-year 2026 guidance, expecting gradual revenue improvement in the second half of the year. Kaltura (NASDAQ:KLTR) reported first-quarter 2026 results that exceeded its guidance for revenue and adjusted EBITDA, while also generating positive operating cash flow in a first quarter for the first time in the company’s history, executives said on the company’s earnings call. Co-founder, Chairman, President and CEO Ron Yekutiel said total revenue was $44.6 million, down 5% year over year, while subscription revenue was $43.2 million, down 4%. Adjusted EBITDA rose 37% year over year to $5.7 million, which Yekutiel described as the company’s highest first-quarter result to date. → Beyond NVIDIA: Picks-and-Shovels AI Plays with Strong Momentum “These results reflect continued operating discipline, improving retention trends, and steady progress as we execute on our strategic transition,” Yekutiel said. Liron Sharon, executive vice president of FP&A and interim principal financial officer, said total revenue exceeded the company’s guidance range of $42.6 million to $43.4 million. Subscription revenue also topped the guided range of $41.2 million to $42 million. → 3 Ways to Target the Resources Powering AI and Data Centers Sharon attributed the year-over-year revenue decline primarily to elevated Media & Telecom churn experienced in 2025, as well as the timing of activity from a large Enterprise, Education & Technology customer that shifted from large virtual events to smaller events expected later in the year. Professional services revenue was $1.4 million, down 50% sequentially and 31% year over year, which Sharon said was consistent with Kaltura’s focus on recurring subscription revenue. → MercadoLibre Boldly Invests in Growth: Discount Deepens By segment, Enterprise, Education & Technology total revenue was $34.2 million, down 1% year over year, while subscription revenue was flat at $33.7 million. Media & Telecom total revenue was $10.5 million, down 17%, and subscription revenue was $9.5 million, down 16%. GAAP gross profit was $32.1 million, representing a gross margin of 72%, up 200 basis points from the prior-year quarter. Subscription gross margin was 77%, in line with the first quarter of 2025. GAAP operating expenses declined 3% year over year to $33.3 million, despite incremental costs tied to the eSelf acquisition and foreign exchange headwinds. GAAP net loss was $3.8 million, or $0.03 per diluted share, compared with a net loss of $1.1 million, or $0.01 per diluted share, in the prior-year period. Sharon said the change primarily reflected non-cash and non-recurring expenses, including $3.8 million in stock-based compensation and $1.9 million in acquisition costs and other strategic initiatives. Non-GAAP net profit was $2.1 million, or $0.01 per diluted share. Yekutiel said first-quarter new subscription bookings followed the company’s typical seasonal pattern and included one seven-figure deal, 14 six-figure deals and three AI-related deals. New customers included a global content delivery network, a healthcare system, two U.S. universities and a major broadcaster in the Asia-Pacific region. He said most bookings came from expansions within Kaltura’s existing enterprise customer base across technology, financial services, healthcare, education and media. Gross retention improved to its highest level in five quarters, according to Yekutiel. Net dollar retention was 95%, compared with 107% in the prior-year period and 97% in the fourth quarter of 2025. Sharon said the metric remains affected by last year’s Media & Telecom churn and is expected to improve as retention and bookings recover. Remaining performance obligations were $154.5 million, flat year over year, with 67% expected to be recognized as revenue over the next 12 months. Annualized recurring revenue was $168.8 million, flat sequentially and down 3% year over year. A central theme of the call was Kaltura’s shift from a video platform to what Yekutiel called an “AI-powered, rich agentic digital experience platform.” He said the company is combining its existing video capabilities with technologies from eSelf and PathFactory. Kaltura completed its acquisition of PathFactory on April 1 after signing the definitive agreement during the first quarter. Yekutiel said PathFactory adds content intelligence and journey orchestration, helping enterprises understand user intent and deliver personalized digital experiences. The company also announced general availability of its conversational avatar technology and developer tools, and moved its Avatar Video Production Studio from beta to general availability. Yekutiel said the studio enables automated creation of avatar-based video content from text and other materials. Kaltura also achieved ISO/IEC 42001 certification for artificial intelligence management systems during the quarter. Yekutiel said the company is seeing early validation across four customer “journeys”: customers, employees, learners and audiences. Customer-facing use cases are the most advanced, with proof-of-concept discussions involving large enterprises across technology, financial services, healthcare, and media and telecom. Use cases include personalized content journeys, AI-powered conversational interfaces, digital agents for customer and partner engagement, and AI-powered sales development representative agents. For employee use cases, Yekutiel cited interest in AI-assisted interactions, internal communications, knowledge bases and training. In education, he said universities are discussing AI tutors, teaching assistants, instructional content creation and role-play simulations. In Media & Telecom, he said conversations include recommendations, personalized viewing and conversational interfaces. For the second quarter, Kaltura expects subscription revenue of $43.3 million to $44.1 million, representing 2% to 4% year-over-year growth. Total revenue is expected to be $45.2 million to $46 million, up 2% to 3%. Adjusted EBITDA is expected to be between $2 million and $3 million. For full-year 2026, the company raised and narrowed its guidance. Kaltura now expects subscription revenue of $174.5 million to $176.7 million, representing 1% to 3% growth, and total revenue of $182.6 million to $184.8 million, up 1% to 2%. Adjusted EBITDA is expected to be between $13.8 million and $15.2 million. Sharon said the company expects revenue to pick up gradually throughout the year, with contributions from PathFactory and the new product portfolio beginning in the second half and becoming more meaningful in 2027. She said Media & Telecom revenue is still expected to decline year over year in 2026 due to prior churn, but new bookings and retention are expected to improve. During the question-and-answer portion, Needham & Company analyst Ryan Koontz asked about the expanded product portfolio and how customer engagements are changing. Yekutiel said Kaltura is seeing a pipeline of “a few dozen opportunities” around its new solutions, roughly split between North America and Europe and between upsells and new logos. He said customer journey opportunities are the largest, followed by employee, learner and audience use cases. In response to a question from Canaccord Genuity about whether the broader platform could lengthen sales cycles, Yekutiel said he did not necessarily expect that, though he noted Kaltura has historically sold through large enterprise sales cycles. Asked about opening the platform to AI coding agents, Yekutiel said Kaltura is enabling easier integration of its tools into enterprise workflows and third-party systems, while not open-sourcing its core technology. “We want to enable the lowest barrier for folks to take our tools and customize them, integrate them, insert them into workflows, and have them embedded within the environments that things are happening now,” Yekutiel said. Kaltura, Inc (NASDAQ: KLTR) is a leading provider of video technology solutions designed to empower organizations to create, manage, distribute and monetize video content at scale. The company's cloud-native platform supports an array of use cases including enterprise communications, online learning, virtual events, media delivery and over-the-top (OTT) television services. By combining open-source roots with software-as-a-service (SaaS) flexibility, Kaltura offers organizations the ability to tailor their video workflows and integrate seamlessly with existing collaboration, learning management and content management systems. Key offerings from Kaltura include a comprehensive video management system, live streaming and video conferencing capabilities, lecture capture for educational institutions, virtual events and webinars, and turnkey OTT solutions. This instant news alert was generated by narrative science technology and financial data from MarketBeat in order to provide readers with the fastest reporting and unbiased coverage. Please send any questions or comments about this story to [email protected]. The article "Kaltura Q1 Earnings Call Highlights" was originally published by MarketBeat. View MarketBeat's top stocks for May 2026.
Investor releaseQuarter not tagged2026-05-12Kaltura (KLTR) Q1 2026 Earnings Transcript
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Kaltura (KLTR) Q1 2026 Earnings Transcript
Image source: The Motley Fool. Monday, May 11, 2026 at 4:30 p.m. ET Chief Executive Officer — Ron Yekutiel Chief Financial Officer — Liron Sharon Moderator — Erica L. Mannion Need a quote from a Motley Fool analyst? Email [email protected] Ron will begin with a summary of the results for the first quarter ended 03/31/2026 and provide a business update. Liron will then review the financial results for 2026 in greater detail, followed by the company’s outlook for the second quarter and full year 2026. Operator: We will then open the call for questions. Erica L. Mannion: Please note that this call will include forward-looking statements within the meaning of the federal securities laws, including, but not limited to, statements regarding Kaltura, Inc.’s expected future financial results, management’s expectations and plans for the business including execution on our strategic transition and upcoming product launches, integration and expected benefits of our recent acquisitions, trends in customer engagement, anticipated headwinds, and our expectations around capabilities and benefits of our products, including AI technologies. These statements are neither promises nor guarantees and involve risks and uncertainties that may cause actual results to differ materially from those discussed here. Important factors that could cause actual results to differ from forward-looking statements can be found in the risk factors section of Kaltura, Inc.’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended 12/31/2025 and other SEC filings. Any forward-looking statements made during this conference call, including responses to your questions, are based on current expectations as of today, and Kaltura, Inc. assumes no obligation to update or revise them, whether as a result of new developments or otherwise, except as required by law. Please note we will be discussing non-GAAP financial measures, including adjusted EBITDA, adjusted EBITDA margin, and non-GAAP gross margin during this call. For a reconciliation of these measures to the most directly comparable GAAP metrics, please refer to our earnings release, which is available on our website at investors.kaltura.com. Now I would like to turn the call over to Ron. Ron Yekutiel: Thank you, Erica, and thanks everyone for joining us today. We delivered a strong start to 2026, exceeding the high end of our guidance across revenue and adj…Read full documentShow less
Image source: The Motley Fool. Monday, May 11, 2026 at 4:30 p.m. ET Chief Executive Officer — Ron Yekutiel Chief Financial Officer — Liron Sharon Moderator — Erica L. Mannion Need a quote from a Motley Fool analyst? Email [email protected] Ron will begin with a summary of the results for the first quarter ended 03/31/2026 and provide a business update. Liron will then review the financial results for 2026 in greater detail, followed by the company’s outlook for the second quarter and full year 2026. Operator: We will then open the call for questions. Erica L. Mannion: Please note that this call will include forward-looking statements within the meaning of the federal securities laws, including, but not limited to, statements regarding Kaltura, Inc.’s expected future financial results, management’s expectations and plans for the business including execution on our strategic transition and upcoming product launches, integration and expected benefits of our recent acquisitions, trends in customer engagement, anticipated headwinds, and our expectations around capabilities and benefits of our products, including AI technologies. These statements are neither promises nor guarantees and involve risks and uncertainties that may cause actual results to differ materially from those discussed here. Important factors that could cause actual results to differ from forward-looking statements can be found in the risk factors section of Kaltura, Inc.’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended 12/31/2025 and other SEC filings. Any forward-looking statements made during this conference call, including responses to your questions, are based on current expectations as of today, and Kaltura, Inc. assumes no obligation to update or revise them, whether as a result of new developments or otherwise, except as required by law. Please note we will be discussing non-GAAP financial measures, including adjusted EBITDA, adjusted EBITDA margin, and non-GAAP gross margin during this call. For a reconciliation of these measures to the most directly comparable GAAP metrics, please refer to our earnings release, which is available on our website at investors.kaltura.com. Now I would like to turn the call over to Ron. Ron Yekutiel: Thank you, Erica, and thanks everyone for joining us today. We delivered a strong start to 2026, exceeding the high end of our guidance across revenue and adjusted EBITDA, and generating, for the first time in our history, positive cash flow from operations in a first quarter. Total revenue was $44.6 million, down 5% year-over-year. Subscription revenue was $43.2 million, down 4% year-over-year. Adjusted EBITDA was $5.7 million, up 37% year-over-year and our highest first quarter result to date. These results reflect continued operating discipline, improving retention trends, and steady progress as we execute on our strategic transition. New subscription bookings in the first quarter followed our typical seasonal pattern, with encouraging deal quality across both new logos and expansions. We closed one seven-digit deal, fourteen six-digit deals, and three new AI-related deals. New logos included a global content delivery network, a leading healthcare system, two U.S. universities, and a major APAC broadcaster. As in prior quarters, the majority of bookings came from expansions within our existing enterprise customer base across technology, financial services, healthcare, education, and media. Gross retention improved to its highest level in the last five quarters. Net dollar retention continued to reflect the lagging impact of elevated media and telecom churn in 2025, which we expect to improve over the course of this year. During the quarter, we continued to expand our AI capabilities across both content creation and user engagement. We announced the general availability of our conversational avatar technology along with developer tools that enable integration into enterprise workflows. We also launched a beta version and last week moved to general availability of our Avatar video production studio, which enables automated creation of avatar-based video content from text and other materials. These capabilities build on our existing AI tools such as ContentLab and Genie, extending them into more interactive and conversational use cases. Importantly, we also achieved ISO/IEC 42001 certification for artificial intelligence management systems during this quarter, reinforcing our commitment to responsible, enterprise-grade AI deployment. We also completed the acquisition of PathFactory on 04/01/2026 following the signing of the definitive agreement during the first quarter. PathFactory adds content intelligence and journey orchestration built to enable enterprises to better understand user intent and dynamically deliver personalized digital experiences. Since closing, we have moved quickly to integrate teams and align product and go-to-market efforts. We are already jointly presenting our combined platform in the market and seeing encouraging early engagements. With the combination of Kaltura, Inc., ESELF, and PathFactory, we believe we now have the core building blocks to evolve from a video platform into an AI-powered, rich, agentic digital experience platform. Kaltura, Inc. provides enterprise-grade video experiences and rich media infrastructure. ESELF adds multimodal conversational avatar technology for agentic real-time and on-demand interactions. And PathFactory adds content intelligence and journey orchestration. Together, these capabilities are designed to allow enterprises to move from static one-size-fits-all digital experiences to more personalized, interactive, and outcome-driven journeys. Now I will spend some time discussing how customers are engaging with us across the four journeys we power: customers, employees, learners, and audiences, as this is where we are seeing the most meaningful early validation of our strategy. First, customer journeys. Customer-facing use cases are the most advanced and show the strongest early traction. We are seeing growing interest in our revenue engagement suite, which brings together video, AI-powered content creation, conversational avatars, and journey orchestration into a unified solution for marketing, sales, and customer engagement teams. Discussions with both new and existing customers are shifting from deploying video tools to broader conversations around improving lead conversion, scaling personalized engagement, and augmenting sales and customer success teams. We are in proof-of-concept discussions with large enterprises, including Fortune 500 organizations, across technology, financial services, healthcare, and media and telecom. These include use cases such as personalized content journeys and microsites, AI-powered conversational interfaces across websites and events, automated creation and scaling of targeted video content, 24/7 digital agents supporting customer and partner engagement and onboarding, and AI-powered SDR agents. In several of these engagements, we are progressing from initial proof of concept to broader platform discussions, reflecting growing confidence in the combined value of our offerings. Importantly, these conversations increasingly involve multiple business stakeholders, including marketing, sales, and customer success leaders, expanding our buyer base beyond IT. Second, employee journeys. Across employee-facing use cases, we are seeing strong interest in leveraging AI to improve productivity, training, and knowledge access. Customers are engaging with us around four primary themes: extending workforce capacity through AI-assisted interactions, accelerating content creation and internal communications, turning large content libraries into interactive knowledge bases, and enhancing training through more personalized and interactive experiences. We are seeing adoption of tools such as ContentLab and Genie expand within large enterprises, including global financial institutions, pharmaceutical companies, and professional services firms. These deployments are creating a strong foundation for future expansion into more advanced conversational and avatar-based use cases. For example, a large global professional services firm is expanding its use of our AI tools to scale internal communications and knowledge access across hundreds of thousands of employees, while a major financial institution has begun transforming support content into interactive self-serve learning experiences using our Genie platform. We also see growing interest in our avatar-based offerings for content creation, knowledge discovery, and role play simulations for sales training, enablement, and field support. Third, learner journeys. In education, discussions are increasingly centered around how AI can enable more personalized and interactive learning experiences. Use cases include AI-powered teaching assistants and tutors, personalized learning paths, automated content creation and adaptation, and improved accessibility. We are engaged in discussions with universities around using our Avatar video production studio to generate rich instructional content. We are also in discussions with institutions regarding the use of our agentic avatars as academic tutors, role play simulation tools, and support agents for administration and admission. Our modular architecture and integrations with learning systems position us well in these conversations, and we are seeing continued engagement from both existing institutions and new prospects. Fourth, audience journeys. In media and telecom, we are discussing how AI can enhance audience engagement and monetization. These discussions include more advanced content discovery and recommendation, personalized viewing experiences, new monetization models, and the introduction of interactive and conversational interfaces. These discussions range from AI-powered content recommendation and avatar concierge experiences to broader applications such as digital signage and customer engagement in large venues. It is worth noting we are also seeing growing interest for media and telecom companies to leverage our platform beyond traditional entertainment use cases, including customer journeys such as marketing and customer care, and employee journeys such as sales enablement. In summary, the increasing depth and breadth of these engagements reflects the progress we are making in our transition. As we evolve from powering video experiences to powering end-to-end rich, agentic digital experiences, our focus in 2026 is on integrating esoft.ai and PathFactory, packaging rich, agentic solutions around clear use cases, and driving early adoption. We are seeing early signs of momentum in customer engagement and pipeline activities, and continue to expect revenue contribution from our new product portfolio to begin in the second half of the year with a more meaningful impact in 2027. Before I close, I also want to highlight our upcoming Kaltura Connect on the Road 2026 event. We will be hosting events in New York, San Francisco, and London this week and next, bringing together customers and partners to discuss the evolution toward more personalized, AI-powered digital experiences. We are pleased to have participation from leading organizations including AWS, Cisco, IBM, MetLife, Morgan Stanley, and Palo Alto Networks. These events provide an important opportunity for customers and prospects to engage directly with our platform and roadmap, and we view the strong participation as further validation of the relevance of our strategy. Early feedback and participation levels are exceeding our expectations, with strong engagement from both existing customers and new prospects. You are invited to register for in-person or virtual participation through our website. To summarize, we delivered a strong Q1, exceeding expectations across revenue and adjusted EBITDA, and achieving a key milestone with positive first quarter operating cash flow. We launched new products based on the ESOP acquisition, and completed the PathFactory acquisition and are progressing well on integration. We have been expanding our platform capabilities and are seeing encouraging early validation across all four journeys we support, and are headed into the rest of the year with increased confidence reflected in our updated guidance. With that, I will turn it over to Liron. Liron? Liron Sharon: Thanks, Ron, and hello to everyone on the call today. As Ron noted, in the first quarter we once again exceeded the high end of our guidance across all metrics—subscription revenue, total revenue, and adjusted EBITDA—and generated for the first time cash flow from operations in the first quarter of the year. Let me now walk through the quarter in more detail. Total revenue for the quarter ended 03/31/2026 was $44.6 million, down 2% sequentially and 5% year-over-year, and exceeding the high end of our guidance range of $42.6 million to $43.4 million. Subscription revenue was $43.2 million, up 1% sequentially and down 4% year-over-year, and also exceeding the high end of our guidance range of $41.2 million to $42.0 million. As discussed during our last earnings call, this year-over-year decline was fueled by the elevated media and telecom churn experienced in 2025, which we forecast will improve this year, as well as by a large E&T customer that shifted from conducting large virtual events to many smaller ones that are planned to be conducted later in the year. Professional services revenue was $1.4 million, down 50% sequentially and 31% year-over-year, consistent with our increased multi-year focus on recurring subscription revenue. On a segment basis, E&T total revenue was $34.2 million, down 1% year-over-year, and subscription revenue was $33.7 million, flat year-over-year, while professional services revenue contributed $0.5 million, down 42% year-over-year. Within M&T, total revenue was $10.5 million, down 17% year-over-year, and subscription revenue was $9.5 million, down 16% year-over-year, while professional services revenue contributed $1.0 million, down 24% year-over-year. GAAP gross profit for the first quarter was $32.1 million, resulting in gross margin of 72%, up 200 basis points from Q1 2025. Subscription gross margin was 77%, in line with Q1 2025. The year-over-year improvement in gross margin reflects the continued benefit of our mix shift toward higher-margin subscription revenue. GAAP operating expenses for the quarter were $33.3 million, compared to $34.3 million in 2025, an improvement of 3% year-over-year, and that is despite incremental operating costs associated with the ESELF acquisition and FX headwinds. Adjusted EBITDA for the quarter was $5.7 million, an increase of $1.5 million from $4.1 million in 2025, and exceeding the high end of our guidance range of $2.3 million to $3.3 million. Adjusted EBITDA margin was 13%, an increase of 400 basis points year-over-year, which underscores our commitment to operational profitability also amid our strategic transition and investment in growth. GAAP net loss for the quarter was $3.8 million, or $0.03 per diluted share, compared to a net loss of $1.1 million, or $0.01 per diluted share, in Q1 2025. The year-over-year change in GAAP net loss reflects primarily non-cash and non-recurring expenses, including $3.8 million for non-cash stock-based compensation and $1.9 million for acquisition costs and other strategic initiatives. Non-GAAP net profit for the quarter was $2.1 million, or $0.01 per diluted share, compared to $2.0 million, or $0.01 per diluted share, in Q1 2025. Remaining performance obligations, or RPO, were $154.5 million, flat year-over-year. We expect to recognize 67% of this amount as revenue over the next 12 months. Annualized recurring revenue in the first quarter was $168.8 million, flat sequentially and down 3% year-over-year. Net dollar retention for the quarter was 95%, compared to 107% in the prior-year period and 97% in Q4 2025. As a reminder, NDR is a lagging indicator and reflects prior period bookings and retention dynamics. As such, it has been significantly impacted by last year’s heightened M&T gross churn, which we expect will materially improve this year, alongside also higher M&T and E&T bookings. Moving to the balance sheet and cash flow, we ended the quarter with $61.8 million in cash, cash equivalents, and marketable securities. Net cash generated from operating activities in the quarter was $0.7 million compared to $1.0 million used in operating activities in Q1 last year. This meaningful year-over-year improvement of $1.7 million also contributed to this quarter being our first Q1 with positive cash flow from operations. I will now turn to our outlook for Q2 2026 and for the full fiscal year ending 12/31/2026. For Q2 2026, we expect subscription revenue to grow 2% to 4% year-over-year to between $43.3 million and $44.1 million, total revenue to grow between 2% to 3% year-over-year to between $45.2 million and $46.0 million, and adjusted EBITDA to be between $2.0 million and $3.0 million. For the full year 2026, we are thoughtfully raising all our guidance numbers and slightly narrowing the guidance ranges. We now expect subscription revenue to grow 1% to 3% to between $174.5 million and $176.7 million, total revenue to grow 1% to 2% to between $182.6 million and $184.8 million, and adjusted EBITDA to be between $13.8 million and $15.2 million. We continue to expect subscription and total revenue to be up gradually throughout the year. We expect E&T to post a higher year-over-year growth rate compared to 2025, fueled by contribution from the PathFactory customer base and our new product portfolio, which is expected to start contributing revenue in the second half of the year with a stronger impact in 2027. We continue to forecast M&T year-over-year revenue decline this year due to the elevated churn in 2025, but expect to achieve both higher M&T new bookings and retention this year, which are forecasted to regenerate sequential quarterly M&T revenue growth in 2027. On the cost side, our guidance continues to take into consideration the PathFactory acquisition and expected post-merger integration costs as well as the continued expected impact of FX headwinds. To close, Q1 marked a solid start to the year. We remain focused on disciplined execution, careful capital allocation, and balancing growth with profitability to maximize long-term shareholder value. We will now open the call for questions. Operator? Operator: Ladies and gentlemen, we will now begin the question-and-answer session. If you would like to ask a question, a confirmation tone will indicate your line is in the question queue. You may press star and 2 if you would like to remove your question from the queue. For participants using speaker equipment, it may be necessary to pick up your handset before pressing the star keys. Ladies and gentlemen, we will wait for a moment while we poll for questions. Our first question comes from Ryan Koontz with Needham & Company. Please state your question. Ryan Koontz: Great, thanks. Ron, I want to ask you about the expanded portfolio. Clearly very forward-leaning here and it seems highly differentiated. Can you map how your customer engagements are going or give us some color relative to the different set of stakeholders—who you have traditionally sold to, what those engagements are like, and how you are positioning the new portfolio to really take a broader swath of engagement from your customers, and then obviously helping your customers improve their engagements with their end customers? Thanks. Ron Yekutiel: I appreciate it, Ryan, and thank you all for joining me today. Going back to the last couple of quarters and discussions we have had about our move from powering video experiences to powering agentic, rich experiences that cover the entire journey of customers, employees, learners, and audiences, I will give you examples of each. Before that, we have been beefing our content creation, management, and experience layers with more tools. On content creation, to remind you, we have our VOD-based avatar, which enables automatic content creation with avatars, and this runs on top of our ContentLab capabilities and additional creation tools that we have developed. On the content management side, we have the PathFactory intent-based content analytics and content intelligence platform that understands users and delivers them the next piece of content in the right context, for the right reason, at the right time. Then on the engagement layer, we have our agentic avatars and now also the role play simulation on top of that, plus the delivery of the traditional Genie products. It is quite a lot of new things, and they all come together into a flywheel when content is created, managed, and delivered in real time in conversational form. Let me give you examples across the four journeys. We started closing initial deals—again, they are small, and we expect more significant contribution to revenue in the second half of the year. At the beginning, they are more around customer journeys—POCs around sales, marketing, and customer support. They are coming from places like traditional tech, real estate, hospitality, consumer goods, M&T, and more. Looking at our broader pipeline, we have a few dozen opportunities, and they are mostly around the agentic avatars together with Genie, albeit there are already a few around the Avatar video production suite. These are about half and half between North America and Europe, and about half and half between upsells and new logos. We have more on the customer journey side, followed not far behind by the employee side, then learners, and the smaller one is audiences. I will note that audience is one part of what M&T customers do because M&T are also using us not just for TV, but also for their customer engagement and even employees. From an industry perspective, we have the most coming from tech and M&T, followed by education, then financial services, and then pharma, real estate, gaming, BPO, manufacturing, oil and gas, and food. Now, examples: for customer journeys, folks are coming to us for marketing, web personalization, customer outreach, and ABM—marketers creating full personalized experiences through interaction with what we do. We also have personalized events follow-ups—quite a few that already have done events and now are looking at one-on-one follow-ups with individuals. We have a couple starting to look into using us for SDRs and basic sales on the website. For customer training, they are looking to better enable their customers with information. Also customer care, renewal enablement, and partner enablement for large companies with marketplaces looking to have better tools for both enablement and support. Historically, we provided video on the website, portals, events, and webcasts—mere tools. Now you fulfill the full task and role; you are really becoming agentic. The outcomes being looked at are not just “people engaged with video,” but whether you are increasing pipeline, accelerating conversion, and reducing cost—real business outcomes. Regarding buyers, we have always had elements of the marketing department involved; now we have far deeper interest by C-levels on the marketing side, revenue side, and customer care side. Moving to employee journeys, we have folks looking at internal recruiting, communications, L&D and onboarding, IT help desk, digital receptionist, and sales enablement. Consider using an avatar-plus tool to train sales and deliver the right asset at the right time and place, including snippets and documents together with Genie. We also have field support use cases—people in the field needing real-time information. For learners, we have tutors providing one-on-one teaching and learning, role play in nursing schools and negotiation classes, mass content creation from documents and long videos into shorter videos, and even admissions assistance and community education. Lastly, on the audience side, we have recommendations, TV concierge, virtual assistants, and even physical events in big venues and point-of-sale kiosks. It is a far more robust set of interactions than in the past. The beauty is this is not a pivot or dropping video; this is the new way to use rich media, and many are connected to our other products. People are saying they need websites within this ABM motion, and they need events within customer engagement—it adds to what we have done. It is a long answer, but hopefully it gives you color, Ryan. Ryan Koontz: Yeah. Super interesting, Ron. Thank you. Operator: Our next question comes from DJ Hynes with Canaccord Genuity. Please state your question. Analyst: Hey, guys. This is Ryan on for DJ. Thanks for taking our questions. You have obviously added a ton of new functionality to the platform with ESELF and now PathFactory, and I know PathFactory is obviously new. Do you anticipate any sort of sales cycle elongation or digestion period as the salesforce gets up to speed with the new platform? Ron Yekutiel: Thank you for that question. Not necessarily, but let us remember sales cycles have always been classic large enterprise sales cycles. Historically, media and telecom could have been a year and a half, and the classic enterprise sales cycle—think salesforce.com—is often many months. I do not think they are further elongated; they are typical long sales cycles. We have already had inbounds for POCs and interest at the beginning of 2026 that we expect to see converting in the second half of this year. So they are not all going to be extra long, but some of them might be. Analyst: Okay, makes sense. And then if I could sneak one more in: we saw that you opened the platform to AI coding agents recently. Can you clarify how often you are seeing customers try to build these AI-led digital experiences internally or off the Kaltura platform, and are you able to monetize this third-party access? Ron Yekutiel: To be very clear, what we have enabled is the integration into Kaltura, Inc. to be by way of code that customers can run and use. This is not us open-sourcing our core technology or core offering. The avatars and the fullness of the Kaltura, Inc. platform are definitely our code and are not being released. What we find is strong interest to take these tools and insert them in a very flexible, open, transparent way into workflows and into the agents third parties are building. We have always taken the approach that video is not an island, and also the experiences and agents we provide are not an island. They need to be connected to databases, third-party systems, and enterprise workflows. We want to enable the lowest barrier for folks to take our tools, customize them, integrate them, insert them into workflows, and have them embedded within their operating environment. This is even more the case the more in-depth you are connected into the actual value generation of key KPIs of the company. So what we are seeing is companies—definitely tech, but beyond—saying, “We have our own agent factory and a bunch of things we do, but we appreciate how we need to turn our website into a dynamically generative environment, or transform training and learning for customers or employees.” They need these tools connected to their own RAG, to whatever LLMs they use, to whatever applications and agents they are building, and that is what we have enabled. Analyst: Gotcha. Thanks, Ron. Appreciate it. Operator: Ladies and gentlemen, this concludes the question-and-answer session. I would now like to hand the conference over to Ron Yekutiel, the CEO, for the closing remarks. Ron Yekutiel: I appreciate that, and thank you all for joining. We are on track and seeing interest in the new capabilities we have brought in. As stated, we have our event around the corner in New York, San Francisco, and London with great attendance—inviting all of you to register online. We are also going to be at the Needham 21st Annual Technology Conference and invite you to come meet us there. Lastly, as noted in our earnings PR, we have included in our quarterly investor deck a conversational agentic avatar that walks you through the presentation as an aid. You can ask it to explain slides and address additional questions—he is my avatar, but we could have used any avatar. I am sure you will find that helpful, and it showcases our technology. This is one of many things that we can and will do with our new tech. We are excited and looking forward to what is ahead. 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This article first appeared on GuruFocus. Release Date: May 11, 2026 For the complete transcript of the earnings call, please refer to the full earnings call transcript. Kaltura Inc (NASDAQ:KLTR) exceeded the high end of its guidance for revenue and adjusted EBITDA in Q1 2026. The company achieved positive cash flow from operations for the first time in a first quarter. Gross retention improved to its highest level in the last five quarters. Kaltura Inc (NASDAQ:KLTR) expanded its AI capabilities, including the launch of conversational avatar technology and the Avatar Video Production Studio. The acquisition of PathFactory was completed, enhancing content intelligence and journey orchestration capabilities. Total revenue decreased by 5% year-over-year, and subscription revenue decreased by 4% year-over-year. Professional services revenue declined by 50% sequentially and 31% year-over-year. Net dollar retention was 95%, down from 107% in the prior year period. The company reported a GAAP net loss of $3.8 million for the quarter. Media and telecom segments experienced elevated churn in 2025, impacting current performance. Warning! GuruFocus has detected 3 Warning Signs with KLTR. Is KLTR fairly valued? Test your thesis with our free DCF calculator. Q: Can you provide insights into how customer engagements are evolving with your expanded portfolio and the different stakeholders involved? A: Ron Ukitel, CEO, explained that Kaltura is transitioning from powering video experiences to agentic, rich experiences across customer, employee, learner, and audience journeys. The company has enhanced its content creation and management tools, including VOD-based avatars and PathFactory's content intelligence platform. Initial deals are small, but significant contributions to revenue are expected in the second half of the year. Engagements are expanding beyond IT to include marketing, sales, and customer success leaders. Q: With the addition of eSelf and PathFactory, do you anticipate any elongation in the sales cycle as the sales force adapts to the new platform? A: Ron Ukitel, CEO, noted that while sales cycles have traditionally been long, typical of large enterprise sales, they do not expect further elongation. Some deals may convert in the second half of the year, indicating that not all will be extra long. Q: How are customers utilizing AI-led digital experiences, and…Read full documentShow less
This article first appeared on GuruFocus. Release Date: May 11, 2026 For the complete transcript of the earnings call, please refer to the full earnings call transcript. Kaltura Inc (NASDAQ:KLTR) exceeded the high end of its guidance for revenue and adjusted EBITDA in Q1 2026. The company achieved positive cash flow from operations for the first time in a first quarter. Gross retention improved to its highest level in the last five quarters. Kaltura Inc (NASDAQ:KLTR) expanded its AI capabilities, including the launch of conversational avatar technology and the Avatar Video Production Studio. The acquisition of PathFactory was completed, enhancing content intelligence and journey orchestration capabilities. Total revenue decreased by 5% year-over-year, and subscription revenue decreased by 4% year-over-year. Professional services revenue declined by 50% sequentially and 31% year-over-year. Net dollar retention was 95%, down from 107% in the prior year period. The company reported a GAAP net loss of $3.8 million for the quarter. Media and telecom segments experienced elevated churn in 2025, impacting current performance. Warning! GuruFocus has detected 3 Warning Signs with KLTR. Is KLTR fairly valued? Test your thesis with our free DCF calculator. Q: Can you provide insights into how customer engagements are evolving with your expanded portfolio and the different stakeholders involved? A: Ron Ukitel, CEO, explained that Kaltura is transitioning from powering video experiences to agentic, rich experiences across customer, employee, learner, and audience journeys. The company has enhanced its content creation and management tools, including VOD-based avatars and PathFactory's content intelligence platform. Initial deals are small, but significant contributions to revenue are expected in the second half of the year. Engagements are expanding beyond IT to include marketing, sales, and customer success leaders. Q: With the addition of eSelf and PathFactory, do you anticipate any elongation in the sales cycle as the sales force adapts to the new platform? A: Ron Ukitel, CEO, noted that while sales cycles have traditionally been long, typical of large enterprise sales, they do not expect further elongation. Some deals may convert in the second half of the year, indicating that not all will be extra long. Q: How are customers utilizing AI-led digital experiences, and is there potential for monetizing third-party access? A: Ron Ukitel, CEO, clarified that Kaltura's platform allows integration via code, not open-sourcing core technology. Customers are interested in embedding Kaltura's tools into their workflows, enhancing agentic interfaces. The company sees increased interest from tech companies and others in integrating these tools with their existing systems. Q: What are the key areas of interest for customers in the customer journey segment? A: Ron Ukitel, CEO, highlighted that customers are interested in marketing, website personalization, customer outreach, and ABM marketeers creating personalized experiences. There is also interest in customer training, care, renewal enablement, and partner support, showcasing a shift from mere video tools to fulfilling complete roles and tasks. Q: Are there any specific industries showing more interest in Kaltura's new solutions? A: Ron Ukitel, CEO, mentioned that the most interest comes from the tech and media & telecom sectors, followed by education and financial services. Other industries include pharma, real estate, gaming, BPO, manufacturing, oil and gas, and food, indicating a broad vertical interest in Kaltura's new solutions. For the complete transcript of the earnings call, please refer to the full earnings call transcript.
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Good morning, everyone, and welcome to the Kaltura first quarter 2026 earnings call. All material contained in the webcast is the sole property and copyright of Kaltura with all rights reserved. For opening remarks and introductions, I now turn the call over to Erica Mannion at Sapphire Investor Relations. Please go ahead, Erica.
Thank you, operator, and good afternoon. I am joined by Ron Yekutiel, Kaltura's Co-founder, Chairman, President, and Chief Executive Officer, and Liran Sharon, Executive Vice President of FP&A and Interim Principal Financial Officer. Ron will begin with a summary of the results for the first quarter ending March 31, 2026, and provide a business update. Liran will review the financial results for the first quarter of 2026 in greater detail, followed by the company's outlook for the second quarter and full year 2026. We will open the call for questions.
Please note that this call will include forward-looking statements within the meaning of the federal securities laws, including, but not limited to, statements regarding Kaltura's expected future financial results, management's expectations and plans for the business, including execution on our strategic transition and upcoming product launches, integration and expected benefits of our recent acquisitions, trends in customer engagement, anticipated headwinds, and our expectations around capabilities and benefits of our products, including AI technologies. These statements are neither promises nor guarantees and involve risks and uncertainties that may cause actual results to differ materially from those discussed here. Important factors that could cause actual results to differ from forward-looking statements can be found in the Risk Factors section of Kaltura's annual report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2025 and other SEC filings.
Any forward-looking statements made during this conference call, including responses to your questions, are based on current expectations as of today, and Kaltura assumes no obligation to update or revise them, whether as a result of new developments or otherwise, except as required by law. Please note we will be discussing non-GAAP financial measures, adjusted EBITDA, adjusted EBITDA margin, and non-GAAP gross margin during this call. For a reconciliation of these measures to the most directly comparable GAAP metric, please refer to our earnings release, which is available on our website at investors.kaltura.com. Now, I'd like to turn the call over to Ron.
Thank you, Erica, thanks everyone for joining us today. We delivered a strong start to 2026, exceeding the high end of our guidance across revenue and adjusted EBITDA and generating, for the first time in our history, positive cash flow from operations in a first quarter. Total revenue was $44.6 million, down 5% year-over-year. Subscription revenue was $43.2 million, down 4% year-over-year. Adjusted EBITDA was $5.7 million, up 37% year-over-year and our highest first quarter result to date. These results reflect continued operating discipline, improving retention trends, and steady progress as we execute on our strategic transition. New subscription bookings in the first quarter followed our typical seasonal pattern with encouraging deal quality across both new logos and expansions. We closed one 7-digit deal, 14 6-digit deals, and three new AI-related deals.
New logos included a global content delivery network, a leading healthcare system, 2 U.S. universities, and a major APAC broadcaster. As in prior quarters, the majority of bookings came from expansions within our existing enterprise customer base across technology, financial services, healthcare, education, and media. Gross retention improved to its highest level in the last 5 quarters. Net dollar retention continued to reflect the lagging impact of elevated media and telecom churn in 2025, which we expect to improve over the course of this year. During the quarter, we continued to expand our AI capabilities across both content creation and user engagement. We announced the general availability of our conversational avatar technology, along with developer tools that enable integration into enterprise workflows.
We also launched a beta version and last week moved to general availability of our Avatar Video Production Studio, which enables automated creation of avatar-based video content from text and other materials. These capabilities build on our existing AI tools, such as Content Lab and Genie, extending them into more interactive and conversational use cases. Importantly, we also achieved ISO/IEC 42001 certification for artificial intelligence management systems during this quarter, reinforcing our commitment to responsible enterprise-grade AI deployment. We also completed the acquisition of PathFactory on April 1st, following the signing of the definitive agreement during the first quarter. PathFactory adds content intelligence and journey orchestration built to enable enterprises to better understand user intent and dynamically deliver personalized digital experiences. Since closing, we have moved quickly to integrate teams and align product and go-to-market efforts.
We're already jointly presenting our combined platform in the market and seeing encouraging early engagement. With the combination of Kaltura, eSelf, and PathFactory, we believe we now have the core building blocks to evolve from a video platform into an AI-powered, rich agentic digital experience platform. Kaltura provides enterprise-grade video experiences and rich media infrastructure. eSelf adds multi-model conversational avatar technology for agentic real-time and on-demand interactions. PathFactory adds content intelligence and journey orchestration. Together, these capabilities are designed to allow enterprises to move from static one-size-fits-all digital experiences for more personalized, interactive, and outcome-driven journeys. Now, I will spend some time discussing how customers are engaging with us across the four journeys we power: customers, employees, learners, and audiences, as this is where we are seeing the most meaningful early validation of our strategy. First, customer journeys.
Customer-facing use cases are the most advanced and show the strongest early traction. We are seeing growing interest in our revenue engagement suite, which brings together video, AI-powered content creation, conversational avatars, and journey orchestration into a unified solution for marketing, sales, and customer engagement teams. Discussions with both new and existing customers are shifting from deploying video tools to broader conversations around improving lead conversion, scaling personalized engagement, and augmenting sales and customer success teams. We are in proof of concept discussions with large enterprises, including Fortune 500 organizations across technology, financial services, healthcare, and Media & Telecom. These include use cases such as personalized content journeys and microsites, AI-powered conversational interfaces across websites and events, automated creation and scaling of targeted video content, 24/7 digital agents supporting customer and partner engagement and onboarding, and AI-powered SDR agents.
In several of these engagements, we are progressing from initial proof of concept to broader platform discussions, reflecting growing confidence in the combined value of our offerings. Importantly, these conversations increasingly involve multiple business stakeholders, including marketing, sales, and customer success leaders, expanding our buyer base beyond IT. Second, employee journeys. Across employee-facing use cases, we're seeing strong interest in leveraging AI to improve productivity, training, and knowledge access. Customers are engaging with us around four primary themes: extending workforce capacity through AI-assisted interactions, accelerating content creation and internal communications, turning large content libraries into interactive knowledge bases, and enhancing training through more personalized and interactive experiences. We're seeing adoption of tools such as Content Lab and Genie expand within large enterprises, including global financial institutions, pharmaceutical companies, and professional services firms. These deployments are creating a strong foundation for future expansion into more advanced conversational and avatar-based use cases.
For example, a large global professional services firm is expanding its use of our AI tools to scale internal communications and knowledge access across hundreds of thousands of employees. While a major financial institution has begun transforming support content into interactive self-serve learning experiences using our Genie platform. We also see growing interest in our avatar-based offerings for content creation, knowledge discovery, and role-play simulations for sales training, enablement, and field support. Third, learner journeys. In education, discussions are increasingly centered around how AI can enable more personalized and interactive learning experiences. Use cases include AI-powered teaching assistants and tutors, personalized learning paths, automated content creation and adaptation, and improved accessibility. We're engaged in discussions with universities around using our Avatar Video Production Studio to generate rich instructional content.
We're also in discussions with institutions regarding the use of our agentic avatars as academic tutors, role-play simulation tools, and support agents for administration and admissions. Our modular architecture and integrations with learning systems position us well in these conversations, and we're seeing continued engagement from both existing institutions and new prospects. Fourth, audience journeys. In Media & Telecom, we're discussing how AI can enhance audience engagement and monetization. These discussions include more advanced content discovery and recommendations, personalized viewing experiences, new monetization models, and the introduction of interactive and conversational interfaces. These discussions range from AI-powered content recommendation and avatar concierge experiences to broader applications such as digital signage and customer engagement in large venues.
It is worth noting we're also seeing growing interest from media and telecom companies to leverage our platform beyond traditional entertainment use cases, including customer journeys such as marketing and customer care, and employee journeys such as sales enablement. In summary, the increasing depth and breadth of these engagements reflects the progress we're making in our transition. As we evolve from powering video experiences to powering end-to-end rich agentic digital experiences, our focus in 2026 is on integrating eSelf.ai and PathFactory, packaging rich agentic solutions around clear use cases, and driving early adoption. We are seeing early signs of momentum in customer engagement and pipeline activity, and continue to expect revenue contribution from our new product portfolio to begin in the second half of the year with a more meaningful impact in 2027.
Before I close, I also want to highlight our upcoming Kaltura Connect on the Road 2026 events. We will be hosting events in New York, San Francisco and London this week and next, bringing together customers and partners to discuss the evolution toward more personalized AI-powered digital experiences. We are pleased to have participation from leading organizations including AWS, Cisco, IBM, MetLife, Morgan Stanley, and Palo Alto Networks. These events provide an important opportunity for customers and prospects to engage directly with our platform and roadmap, and we view the strong participation as further validation of the relevance of our strategy. Early feedback and participation levels are exceeding our expectations with strong engagement from both existing customers and new prospects. You're invited to register for in-person or virtual participation through our website.
To summarize, we delivered a strong Q1, exceeding expectations across revenue and adjusted EBITDA, and achieving a key milestone with positive first quarter operating cash flow. We launched new products based on the eSelf acquisition and completed the PathFactory acquisition and are progressing well on integration. We've been expanding our platform capabilities and seeing encouraging early validation across all four journeys we support, and are headed into the rest of the year with increased confidence reflected in our updated guidance. With that, I'll turn it over to Liran. Liran.
Thanks, Ron, and hello to everyone on the call today. As Ron noted, in the first quarter, we once again exceeded the high end of our guidance across all metrics, subscription revenue, total revenue, and adjusted EBITDA, and generated, for the first time, cash flow from operation in the first quarter of the year. Let me now walk through the quarter in more detail. Total revenue for the quarter ended March 31, 2026, was $44.6 million, down 2% sequentially and 5% year-over-year and exceeding the high end of our guidance range of $42.6 million-$43.4 million. Subscription revenue was $43.2 million, up 1% sequentially and down 4% year-over-year, and also exceeding the high end of our guidance range of $41.2 million-$42 million.
As discussed during our last earnings call, this year-over-year decline was fueled by the elevated Media & Telecom churn experienced in 2025, which we forecast will improve this year, as well as by a large EE&T customer that shifted from conducting large virtual events to many smaller ones that are planned to be conducted later in the year. Professional services revenue was $1.4 million, down 50% sequentially and 31% year-over-year, consistent with our increased multi-year focus on recurring subscription revenue. On a segment basis, EE&T total revenue was $34.2 million, down 1% year-over-year, and subscription revenue was $33.7 million, flat year-over-year. While professional services revenue contributed $0.5 million, down 42% year-over-year.
Within M&T, total revenue was $10.5 million, down 17% year-over-year, and subscription revenue was $9.5 million, down 16% year-over-year. While professional services revenue contributed $1 million, down 24% year-over-year. GAAP gross profit for the first quarter was $32.1 million, resulting in gross margin of 72%, up 200 basis points from Q1 2025. Subscription gross margin was 77%, in line with Q1 2025. The year-over-year improvement in gross margin reflects the continued benefit of our mix shift toward higher margin subscription revenue.
GAAP operating expenses for the quarter was $33.3 million, compared to $34.3 million in the first quarter of 2025, an improvement of 3% year-over-year, and that is despite incremental operating costs associated with the eSelf acquisition and FX headwinds. Adjusted EBITDA for the quarter was $5.7 million, an increase of $1.5 million from $4.1 million in the first quarter of 2025 and exceeding the high end of our guidance range of $2.3 million-$3.3 million. Adjusted EBITDA margin was 13%, an increase of 400 basis points year-over-year, which underscores our commitment to operational profitability, also amid our strategic transition and investment in growth.
GAAP net loss for the quarter was $3.8 million or $0.03 per diluted share, compared to a net loss of $1.1 million or $0.01 per diluted share in Q1 2025. The year-over-year change in GAAP net loss reflects primarily non-cash and non-recurring expenses, including $3.8 million for non-cash stock-based compensation and $1.9 million for acquisition costs and other strategic initiatives. Non-GAAP net profit for the quarter was $2.1 million, or $0.01 per diluted share, compared to $2 million or $0.01 per diluted share in Q1 2025. Remaining performance obligations, or RPO, were $154.5 million, flat year-over-year. We expect to recognize 67% of this amount as revenue over the next 12 months.
Annualized recurring revenue in the first quarter was $168.8 million, flat sequentially and down 3% year-over-year. Net dollar retention for the quarter was 95%, compared to 107% in the prior year period and 97% in Q4 2025. As a reminder, NDR is a lagging indicator and reflects prior period bookings and retention dynamics. As such, it has been significantly impacted by last year's heightened M&T gross churn, which we expect will materially improve this year, alongside also higher M&T and EE&T bookings. Moving to the balance sheet and cash flow. We ended the quarter with $61.8 million in cash equivalents, and marketable securities. Net cash generated from operating activities in the quarter was $0.7 million, compared to $1 million used in operating activities in Q1 last year.
This meaningful year-over-year improvement of $1.7 million also contributed to this quarter being our first Q1 with positive cash flow from operation. I will now turn to our outlook for the second quarter of 2026 and for the full fiscal year ending December 31, 2026. For the second quarter of 2026, we expect subscription revenue to grow 2%-4% year-over-year to between $43.3 million and $44.1 million. Total revenue to grow between 2%-3% year-over-year to between $45.2 million and $46 million, and adjusted EBITDA to be between $2 million and $3 million. For the full year 2026, we are thoughtfully raising all our guidance numbers and slightly narrowing the guidance ranges.
We now expect subscription revenue to grow 1% to 3% to between $174.5 million and $176.7 million. Total revenue to grow 1% to 2% to between $182.6 million and $184.8 million, and adjusted EBITDA to be between $13.8 million and $15.2 million. We continue to expect subscription and total revenue to pick up gradually throughout the year. We expect EE&T to post a higher year-over-year growth rate compared to 2025, fueled by contributions from the PathFactory customer base and our new product portfolio, which is expected to start contributing revenue in the second half of the year with a stronger impact in 2027.
We continue to forecast M&T year-over-year revenue decline this year due to the elevated churn in 2025, but expect to achieve both higher M&T new bookings and retention this year, which are forecasted to regenerate sequential quarterly M&T revenue growth in 2027. On the cost side, our guidance continues to take into consideration the PathFactory acquisition and expected post-merger integration costs. As well as the continued expected impact of FX headwinds. To close, Q1 marked a solid start to the year. We remain focused on disciplined execution, careful capital allocation, and balancing growth with profitability to maximize long-term shareholder value. With that, we will open the call for questions. Operator?
Our first question comes from Ryan Koontz with Needham & Company. Please state your question.
Great, thanks. Hey, Ron, I wanna ask you about some questions about kinda the expanded portfolio. Clearly very forward-leaning here and seems highly differentiated. Can you kinda map us how your customer engagements are going, or give us some color relative to, you know, different set of stakeholders, you know, who you've traditionally sold to, what those engagements are like, and, you know, how are you kind of positioning the new portfolio to, you know, really take a broader swath of engagement from your customers, and then obviously helping your customers improve their engagements with their end customers? Thanks.
Yeah, appreciate it, Ryan, and thank you all for joining me today. Again, going backwards to the last couple of quarters and discussions we've had about our move from powering video experiences to powering agentic rich experiences that cover the entire journey of customers, of employees, of learners, and of audiences. I'll give you examples of each one of them. Before that, we've been beefing our content creation, management, and experience layer with more tools. On content creation, to remind you, we have our VOD-based avatar, which enables to create automatic content with avatars, and this runs on top of our Content Lab capabilities and some more creation tools that we've developed.
On the content management, we have the PathFactory, intent-based, content analytics, content intelligence platform that understands users and delivers them the next piece of content in the right context for the right reason, the right time. On the engagement layer, we have our Agentic avatars and now also the role-play simulation on top of that, plus the delivery of the traditional Genie products that we have. It's quite a lot of new things. They all come together into this flywheel when content is created, managed, and delivered in real-time in conversational form. Let me give you examples about what's happening in each one of the 4 journeys examples. We started closing initial deals. Again, they're small.
We expect to have the more significant contribution into revenue in the second half of the year. At the beginning, they're more around right now customer journey, POCs around sales, marketing, customer support. They're coming from places like traditional tech, real estate, hospitality, consumer goods, M&T from all over the place. If you look at our pipeline right now on a broader sense, we have a few dozen opportunities, and they're mostly around the agentic avatars together with Genie, albeit that there's already a few around the Avatar Video Production Studio. These are about half and half between North America and Europe, about half and half between upsells and new logos.
We have more of them on the customer side, customer journey side, but not too far after the employee side, and then not too far after that, the learner side, and the smaller one is the audience. By order, again, customers, then employees, then learners, then audience. I will just note that audience is one part of what M&T customers do because M&T are also using us not just for TV, but in this case also for their customer engagement and even employees. That doesn't mean that we have less on the M&T vertical, just the TV use case, that's the order.
From an industry perspective, we have the most coming from tech and actually M&T as well, and like I said, across multiple areas, followed by education, followed by financial services, and then we have pharma and real estate and gaming and BPO, manufacturing and oil and gas and food. There's quite a few verticals that are within these pipelines for the new solutions. I'll give you now examples in each one of these. Customer journeys. Folks are coming to us for marketing, website personalization, customer outreach, ABM marketeers, that are creating the full personalized experiences through interaction with what we do. We have also personalized event follow-ups with quite a few that we already have done events, and now they're looking at the one-on-one following up on these events with individuals.
We have a couple that are already starting to look into using us for SDRs, the full-on, basic sales on the website. We got customer training, a few that are looking to better enable their customers with information and also customer care. We have renewal enablement. We also have folks that are working with us towards their partners, the large companies that have marketplaces for their partners and looking to have better tools for both enablement and support. Look at this breadth around customer journey. In a second, I'll talk about the rest. So far from what we've originally done by way of providing video on the website, plus portals, plus events, plus webcasts, these were mere tools, whereas now you fulfill the full task, you fulfill the full role, you're really becoming agentic.
The outcomes, the outputs that are being looked at are not just of people engaged with video, but are you increasing your pipeline? Are you accelerating conversion? Are you reducing costs? These are real business. To your question about buyers, we've always had kind of elements of the marketing department involved. Now we have far deeper interest by C-level on the marketing side and on the revenue side and on the customer care side. Gonna move towards employee journeys. We got folks looking at internal recruiting, communications, L&D, and onboarding is significant, IT helpdesk, digital receptionist, sales enablement, quite a few. Consider using an avatar plus tools to train sales and to deliver them the right content they need in the right time, in the right place, right there when they need it, including snippets and documents together with Genie.
We also have folks that are looking at the field support. Imagine people out there trying to install stuff, and they need real-time information. Learners, we got a bunch for tutors. They're looking to provide teaching and learning on a 1-on-1 basis. Again, look at what we've historically done. We had LMS integrations with video.
Sure.
We had some rooms for classes. Now it's about the full teaching and learning, so it's significant more value. We're in schools looking at role-play, like nursing schools and negotiation classes and places where people need to do stuff in front of an avatar. We got people there using content creation en masse. Consider they have all these documents and all these long videos. They want to create automatic shorter videos from either a slide deck or a document or long videos. We also have even folks looking at admissions assistance and community education. Lastly, on the audience side, recommendations, TV concierge, virtual assistant, and even physical events, big venues, point of sales, kiosks. It's by far more robust type of interactions that we've had than in the past. The beauty about it is that this is not a pivot.
This is not us dropping video and suddenly getting into all these areas. This is the new way to use rich media, and many of them are connected to the other products we have. People are saying this, "Okay, great. We need within this new ABM, the websites, and we need within this engagement of customers, the events." It's added to what we've done. It's a long answer, but hopefully it gives you a color, Ryan.
Yeah. Super interesting, Ron. Thank you.
A reminder to all participants to ask a question, please press star and 1 on your telephone keypad. Our next question comes from DJ Hynes with Canaccord Genuity. Please state your question.
Hey, guys. This is Ryan on for DJ. Thanks for taking our questions. You've obviously added a ton of new functionality to the platform with eSelf and now PathFactory, and I know PathFactory is obviously new, but do you anticipate any sort of sales cycles elongation or digestion period as the sales force gets up to speed with the new platform?
Yeah. Thank you, Ryan, for that question. Not necessarily, but then again, let's remember sales cycles have always been kind of classic large enterprise sales cycles. Historically, mid and telecom could have been a year and a half, and the classic enterprise sales cycles, not only us, if you ask salesforce.com or whatever, I mean, they're 14 months. Not to say that this is a typical sales cycles, but I don't think that they're further elongated. I think that they're typical long sales cycles. We've already had inbounds coming for POCs and interest at the beginning of this year through interaction in 2026 that we expect and see them converting in the second half of this year. They're not all gonna be extra long, but some of them might be.
Okay. Makes sense. If I could sneak one more in.
Sure.
We saw that you opened the platform to AI coding agents recently.
Yep.
Could you maybe just clarify? I guess how often are you seeing customers trying to build these AI-led digital experiences internally or off the Kaltura platform? I guess, are you able to monetize this third-party access?
Yeah. To be very clear, what we've enabled is the integration into Kaltura to be by way of a code that they could run and do. This is not us open sourcing our core technology, our core offering. The avatars and the fullness of Kaltura platform is definitely our code, and it's not being released. What we generally find is that there's an interest out there to go ahead, take these tools, and insert them in a very flexible, open, transparent way into the workflows and into the agents the third parties are building. We've always taken the approach of video is an island, and also the experiences and the agents that we provide now are not an island. They need to be connected into databases. They need to be connected into third-party systems. They need to be connected into enterprise workflows.
We wanna enable the lowest barrier for folks to take our tools and customize them, integrate them, insert them into workflows, and have them embedded within the environments that things are happening now. This is even more so the case, the more in-depth you are connected into the actual value generation of key KPIs of the companies. That is enabled. What we're seeing is that folks definitely are thinking about their agents. We're not the first nor last agent that's gonna be around. What we're adding is that richness in the end user experience around the agentic interface. In order for that to work, it needs to be natively connected to the rest of the agentic logic.
Yes, we're seeing an increased amount of definitely tech companies, but beyond saying, "Listen, we got our own agent factory, we got a bunch of things we do, but we definitely appreciate everything that you just talked about and how we need to turn our website into dynamically created generative environment, or we need to turn our training or learning for customers or employees. We just need to have these tools connected to the rest of our agentic logic, their own RAG, to whatever LLMs we use, to whatever applications we are developing, to whatever agents we're putting in place." That's what we've enabled.
Gotcha. Thanks, Ron. Appreciate it.
Ladies and gentlemen, this concludes the question and answer session. I would now like to hand the conference over to Ron Yekutiel, the CEO, for the closing remarks.
Yeah, I appreciate that, and thank you all for joining. Again, I think we're on track. We are seeing interest in the new stuff that we have brought in. As stated, we have our event around the corner that's happening in both New York, San Francisco, and London with great attendance. We're inviting all of you to register to it online. We're also gonna be at the Needham 21st Annual Technology Conference, inviting you to come meet us there. Lastly, you may have seen, as noted in our earnings PR, we've put in our quarterly investor deck presentation, our conversational Agentic avatar that walks you through the deck, through the presentation of an aide. You could ask it to explain to you and take you through the slides. You could ask him to address additional questions.
When I say him, it actually is my avatar, but we could have put any avatar out there. I'm sure you're gonna find that helpful, and it's something that showcases our technology. This is one of many, many, many things that we can and will do with our new tech. We're excited and looking forward to what's ahead. Have a beautiful day, beautiful week, and thank you for your time.
Ladies and gentlemen, the conference call of Kaltura has now concluded. Thank you for your participation. You may now disconnect your lines.

