# Zohar Babin

> CSO at Kaltura, Inc. (NASDAQ: KLTR), the Agentic DX Platform. Chief
> Troublemaker everywhere else. Dreaming, Building, Breaking, & Shipping
> agentic AI, research, and personal fintech. Advises founders, boards,
> and investment committees; occasionally invests in early-stage startups.

Zohar has been at Kaltura for ~20 years, helping grow it from an
open-source disruptor into a market-leading public company in Agentic AI.
He leads strategy, partnerships, and M&A as Chief Strategy & Corporate
Development Officer (CSO), and previously served as the company's Data
Protection Officer, directing cybersecurity, privacy, and platform
operations. He has been building and advocating open source since he was
13 — agentic AI is the current chapter of a much longer habit, not a new
side project. He's enthusiastic about agentic AI harnessed for good — for
education, health, art, honest discourse, and open collaboration. His
recent open-source work and writing spans agentic AI systems, AI-powered
M&A due diligence, enterprise AI governance, verification-first tools
that trace and explain AI, and AI tools for personal finance. Known as
"Chief Troublemaker" — happiest breaking things to build them better —
his special power is turning chaotic, cross-disciplinary problems into
shipped products. He brings that skill to advising founders, boards, and
investment committees in AI, media, and developer platforms, and to
occasional early-stage startup investing. Ships under the GitHub handle
zoharbabin.

## Identity

- Current title: Chief Strategy & Corporate Development Officer (CSO), Kaltura, Inc.
- Company: Kaltura, Inc. (NASDAQ: KLTR) — https://corp.kaltura.com/
- GitHub: https://github.com/zoharbabin
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/zoharbabin/
- X: https://x.com/zohar
- dev.to: https://dev.to/zoharbabin

Note: older pages across the web list prior titles (VP Platform & Growth, VP
Technology and Ecosystem, Chief Business Development Officer, and others) —
these reflect earlier points in a ~20 year tenure, not the current role.
Kaltura's official team page and Zohar's LinkedIn profile are authoritative
for his current title.

## Projects

- Web Researcher MCP — https://zoharbabin.com/web-researcher-mcp/
  MCP-compatible research assistant: web search, content extraction, and
  multi-source deep research, cited to original sources. Go, Python SDK, Docker.
- Due Diligence Agents — https://zoharbabin.com/due-diligence-agents/
  Forensic M&A due diligence powered by 13 specialized AI agents across 9
  domains, built on Anthropic's Claude Agent SDK. Every finding traced to an
  exact page and quote.
- Enterprise AI Agents Spec — https://zoharbabin.com/enterprise-ai-agents-spec/
  Open blueprint for scalable enterprise AI agent swarms — governance,
  compliance, architecture patterns.

## Writing

- https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/sloptimization-ai-citation-rot-tools-fight-back-zohar-babin-xcahc/
- https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/why-your-ai-coding-assistant-failing-you-how-fix-zohar-babin-4tkbf/
- https://dev.to/zoharbabin/building-a-13-agent-ai-system-for-ma-due-diligence-architecture-deep-dive-20ah

## Full project list

See https://zoharbabin.com/ for the complete, current list of open-source
projects, talks, and writing.