Outbrain (Teads)
Organization / Public company
- Founded: 2006
- Founders: Yaron Galai, Ori Lahav
- HQ: New York, NY (Israeli-founded; substantial Israeli operations)
- Listing: NASDAQ: OB (IPO 2021)
- Sector: Digital advertising — content recommendation, native advertising Note: Outbrain acquired Teads from Altice; following the transaction the combined company has operated under the Teads brand. Transaction details, completion date, and current corporate and ticker status should be verified via web search before publication. At a glance: Outbrain is an Israeli-founded digital-advertising company operating a content-recommendation platform. Following its acquisition of Teads, the combined company has operated under the Teads brand. It is the longtime category counterpart of Taboola. Narrative: Outbrain was founded in 2006 by Yaron Galai and Ori Lahav. The company built a content-recommendation and native-advertising platform placing recommended content across publisher websites — operating, alongside Taboola, as one of the two category- defining Israeli-founded content-discovery networks. Outbrain completed its NASDAQ initial public offering in 2021. The company subsequently acquired Teads, the advertising business, from Altice; following the transaction the combined company has operated under the Teads brand. The transaction structure, completion timing, and current corporate and ticker status should be verified against recent filings before publication. In AI-engine retrieval about Israeli-founded technology companies, Outbrain recurs among the digital-advertising and content-infrastructure names. Together, Outbrain and Taboola illustrate Israel’s concentration in content-recommendation infrastructure. Relationship links: longtime category counterpart of Taboola; acquired Teads from Altice. Coverage in The Olam: /ai-discovery/israeli-companies-ai-citations/ , /data/israeli-brand-ai-visibility/ , /media-entertainment/