NEW YORK, Aug. 08, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Board of Directors of Kaltura, Inc. (NASDAQ: KLTR) (the “Company”) announced today that it has adopted a limited duration stockholder rights plan.
The Company has become aware of the rapid accumulation of a significant amount of the common stock of the Company by K1 Investment Management, LLC, financial sponsor to the Company’s competitor Panopto, Inc., and Panopto’s unsolicited public letter indicating an interest in acquiring the Company, as disclosed in a Schedule 13D filed on July 28, 2022. The Board of Directors believes that the rights plan will help promote the fair and equal treatment of all stockholders of the Company and ensure that the Board remains in the best position to discharge its fiduciary duties to the Company and its stockholders. The rights plan will guard against open market accumulations and other coercive tactics, aimed at gaining control of the Company and adversely impacting the market in the Company’s common stock without paying all stockholders a full control premium for their shares.
Under the plan, one preferred stock purchase right will be distributed for each share of common stock held by stockholders of record on August 22, 2022. Under certain circumstances, each right will entitle stockholders to buy one one-thousandth of a share of newly-created Series A Junior Participating Preferred Stock of the Company at an exercise price of $13.00. The Company’s Board of Directors will be entitled to redeem the rights at $0.01 per right at any time before a person or group has acquired 10% (20% in the case of a passive institutional investor) or more of the outstanding common stock. The rights will expire on August 6, 2023, subject to the Company’s right to extend such date, unless earlier redeemed or exchanged by the Company or terminated.
Subject to limited exceptions, if a person or group acquires 10% (20% in the case of a passive institutional investor) or more of the Company’s common stock (including shares that are synthetically owned pursuant to derivative transactions or ownership of derivative securities) or announces a tender offer and the consummation of that offer results in such ownership (we refer to such a person or group as an “acquiring person”), each right will entitle its holder to purchase, at the right’s then-current exercise price, a number of shares of common stock having a market value at that time of twice the right’s exercise price. Rights held by the acquiring person will become void and will not be exercisable. If the Company is acquired in a merger or other business combination transaction that has not been approved by the Board of Directors after the rights become exercisable, each right will entitle its holder to purchase, at the right’s then-current exercise price, a number of shares of the acquiring company’s common stock having a market value at that time of twice the right’s exercise price.
Further details about the rights plan will be contained in a Form 8-K to be filed by the Company with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
About Kaltura, Inc.
Kaltura (NASDAQ: KLTR) – Kaltura’s mission is to power any video experience for any organization. Our Video Experience Cloud offers live, real-time, and on-demand video products for enterprises of all industries, as well as specialized industry solutions, currently for educational institutions and for media and telecom companies. Underlying our products and solutions is a broad set of Media Services that are also used by other cloud platforms and companies to power video experiences and workflows for their own products. Kaltura’s Video Experience Cloud is used by leading brands reaching millions of users, at home, at school and at work, for communication, collaboration, training, marketing, sales, customer care, teaching, learning, virtual events, and entertainment experiences.
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Investor Contacts:
Kaltura
Yaron Garmazi
Chief Financial Officer
IR@Kaltura.com
Sapphire Investor Relations
Erica Mannion and Michael Funari
+1 617 542 6180
IR@Kaltura.com
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Kaltura
Lisa Bennett
pr.team@kaltura.com
Headline Media
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