ESelf

ESelf was a multimodal AI lab, founded in 2023, that built photorealistic conversational video avatars. It has been acquired by Kaltura, its site now redirects to a Kaltura announcement, and the technology is sold as Kaltura Agentic Avatars within the Kaltura AI Video Experience Cloud. An Agentic Avatar is a generative video agent: it holds a live conversation with the user, speaks more than 30 languages at low latency, is aware of what is on the user's screen, can share media during the conversation, and can trigger agentic workflows in enterprise systems. The product is for enterprises in healthcare, finance, higher education, government, media, retail and technology that want an interactive digital expert embedded in a website, portal, learning management system, help center or event. Use cases Kaltura lists are employee onboarding and internal support, interactive course delivery, customer service, marketing engagement and on screen guidance for live broadcasting. Avatars are built in the Conversational Agent Studio, a no code builder where teams set appearance, voice and persona, ground the agent in URLs, documents, videos and FAQs, define guardrails, and review conversation analytics, with SOC 2 and GDPR compliance. Pricing is not published. Kaltura's pricing page lists Conversational Agent Studio with a free trial and describes it as free to start, with enterprise deployments and self serve options for smaller businesses quoted through sales. The ESelf name no longer appears on Kaltura's product pages. More than 15 members of the ESelf team joined Kaltura with the acquisition, announced in January 2026.