Outbrain

Outbrain, a NYC-based recommendation platform for the open web.

Introduction to Outbrain.

Timeline

July 23, 2021

Outbrain raises a $160,000,000 initial public offering.

2020

Outbrain raises $200M in funding.

October 22, 2013

Outbrain raises a $35,000,000 series E round from Carmel Ventures, HarbourVest Partners, Index Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners and Vintage Investment Partners.

December 14, 2011

Outbrain raises a $35,000,000 series D round from Carmel Ventures, Index Ventures and Lightspeed Venture Partners.

February 14, 2011

Outbrain raises a $11,000,000 series C round from Carmel Ventures and Lightspeed Venture Partners.

February 11, 2009

Outbrain raises a $12,000,000 series B round from Glenbrook Partners and Lightspeed Venture Partners.

February 25, 2008

Outbrain raises a $5,000,000 series A round from Leon Recanati and Lightspeed Venture Partners.

January 1, 2007

Outbrain raises a $1,000,000 seed round.

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Outbrain Raises $200M in Funding

FinSMEs

July 8, 2021

FinSMEs

Outbrain raises $200 million ahead of its IPO

Romain Dillet

July 7, 2021

TechCrunch

Outbrain, an adtech company that provides clickbait ads below news articles, has raised $200 million in funding -- Outbrain didn't disclose the valuation of the company for this deal. The Baupost Group is investing in the company -- it's a Boston-based hedge fund. Outbrain filed for an initial public offering just last week. Today's funding [...]

Clickbait giant Outbrain files for I.P.O.

Tiffany Hsu

June 30, 2021

www.nytimes.com

The company said it had $767 million in revenue last year.

Taboola repays publishers $16 million in postponed revenue guarantees - Business Insider

Lara O'Reilly

December 17, 2020

Business Insider

The company withheld the payments earlier this year when the coronavirus struck, denting its revenue.

How Outbrain lost its lead to Taboola and ended up acquired by it - Business Insider

Lucia Moses

November 7, 2019

Business Insider

In October, the two dominant content recommendation companies Outbrain and Taboola announced plans to merge to create a $2 billion company.

Daily Crunch: Taboola acquires Outbrain

Anthony Ha

October 3, 2019

TechCrunch

The Daily Crunch is TechCrunch's roundup of our biggest and most important stories. If you'd like to get this delivered to your inbox every day at around 9am Pacific, you can subscribe here. 1. Publisher adtech startups Taboola and Outbrain merge in $850M deal to take on Google and Facebook The content recommendation rivals -- [...]

IronSource, a mobile adtech startup, confirms $400M+ raise at $1B+ valuation

Ingrid Lunden

October 3, 2019

TechCrunch

On the same day that two Israeli-founded adtech startups, Taboola and Outbrain, announced a merger to create a $2 billion company, another Israel-founded company focusing on advertising and marketing for mobile has also closed a huge funding round. IronSource, which has built a video ad network and user acquisition technology for mobile app publishers, has [...]

Publisher adtech startups Taboola and Outbrain merge in $850M deal to take on Google and Facebook

Ingrid Lunden

October 3, 2019

TechCrunch

Some consolidation is afoot in the world of advertising. Taboola and Outbrain, rivals that both operate advertising-based content recommendation engines for publishers -- which typically appear in the form of boxes at the bottom of articles online that feature a mix of stories from the publications themselves, plus ads and sponsored content from other sites [...]

Taboola and Outbrain are merging to take on Facebook and Google

Tanya Dua

October 3, 2019

Business Insider

The combined company will operate as Taboola, with Outbrain shareholders receiving 30% of the shares and $250 million in cash.