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Outbrain

eCommerce & Marketplaces · New York City, United States · Founded 2006 · IPO 2021

The world's largest discovery platform. Reach engaged audiences while driving better results for your business

Valuation $739M
Revenue $1.30B
EBITDA $93M
Power Law Unicorn$1–10B valuation tier Thoroughbred$100M+ revenue

Investors

15 investors on Outbrain's cap table

Sourced from Dealroom's funding history. Investor profile links are shown where available.

Seed 2 investors entered at this stage
GlenRock Israel
lgilab
Series A 3 investors entered at this stage
Lightspeed Venture Partners
Leon Recanati
Gemini Israel Ventures
Series B+ 10 investors entered at this stage
The Baupost Group
Citi
HarbourVest Partners
Susquehanna Growth Equity
Rhodium
Jefferies Group
Zohar Gilon
Viola Ventures
Index Ventures
Vintage Investment Partners

Outbrain mafia

Startups founded by Outbrain alumni

Former Outbrain employees who went on to start their own companies. Sorted by Dealroom signal score.

Sensi.AiEst. 2019
Nevo ElmalemIsrael
Signal score93
Small DoorEst. 2017
Josh GuttmanUnited States
Signal score78
MelioEst. 2018
Ilan AtiasUnited States
Signal score78
FunderaEst. 2013
Andres MoranUnited States
Signal score77
SamyRoadEst. 2013
JLJorge LanaSpain
Signal score75
ZenGoEst. 2018
Ouriel OhayonIsrael
Signal score67
SpinviewEst. 2015
Linda WadeUnited Kingdom
Signal score62
BakpaxEst. 2017
Will FleissUnited States
Signal score62
POWER.xyzEst. 2022
Simon FoucherFrance
Signal score61
TenzaiEst. 2025
Aner MazurIsrael
Signal score59
ListoryEst. 2020
Yaron GalaiUnited States
Signal score59
Common NinjaEst. 2021
Daniel SternlichtIsrael
Signal score52

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Global footprint

Where Outbrain has talent and traffic

Workforce by country
33 countries with
team presence
🇮🇱 Israel46.5%
🇺🇸 United States11.6%
🇸🇮 Slovenia7.6%
🇮🇳 India7.6%
🇩🇪 Germany4.8%
Top 5 of 33 shown
Web traffic by country
170M monthly visits
across markets
🇩🇪 Germany25.6%
🇺🇸 United States20.8%
🇫🇷 France10.4%
🇮🇹 Italy9.5%
🇪🇸 Spain5.9%
Top 5 markets shown

Talent graph

The shape of Outbrain's talent

Dealroom maps Outbrain's team person by person — pinpointing the standout operators and scoring them across the six dimensions investors underwrite. The counts and shape below are a public preview; the named individuals and exact scores live in the platform.

13 standout operatorsDealroom-flagged across the org
16 AI specialistsincl. 6 core researchers
334 employees mappedperson by person
DimensionScore
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Source: Dealroom Talent Intelligence. Public profiles show counts and the team's shape only — request a demo for the named individuals, per-person seniority and tenure, and team benchmarks vs peers.

Capital deployed

Outbrain's 9 investments and acquisitions.

Every disclosed deal where Outbrain appeared as a backer or acquirer, 2011–2024. Toggle between venture rounds, M&A, or both. The map below is grouped by the target company's sector — the colored pill on each chip is the round type.

Portfolio analysis

9 deals across Outbrain's capital deployment.

Where the deals concentrate by sector, stage, and decade.

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        02 · Portfolio market map

        Outbrain's portfolio, mapped.

        Each chip is one company. Pill colour shows round type — green for Seed, blue for Series A, purple for B/C+, pink for late-stage, amber for M&A. Bigger sectors keep their full list behind “+ N more”.

        Stage
        Period
        9 of 9 deals

        Market sentiment

        What the market is saying about Outbrain

        An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about Outbrain on X over the past 7 days. We rank by likes & retweets, ignore corporate channels, and surface the themes that broke out from real people.

        Reading the room on X — pulling top posts and synthesizing themes…

        Source: X recent search ranked by engagement (likes + retweets) · Synthesis by Claude · Cached for 1 hour

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