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Taboola

AI-powered digital ad agency

Taboola logo
1001+ employees
  • B2B
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Enterprise
  • Big data
  • Marketing
  • Market research
  • Machine Learning
  • SaaS
  • Advertising
  • Media
Flatiron District, New York, NY

Company mission

To help consumers discover interesting and new things on the internet whilst helping companies grow by reaching customers at the right moment on the sites they can trust.

Top investors

18% employee growth in 12 months

Our take

Taboola is a digital advertising agency that pioneered thumbnail grid ads. Most web users have encountered Taboola ads at the bottom of Internet articles, which are presented under such categories as "Around the Web" and "Recommended For You". Backed by artificial intelligence, its platform is used by businesses to increase profit and user engagement, helping to increase engagement for digital properties and advertisers.

Founded in 2007, Taboola became a billion-dollar revenue generating business by 2018. Despite significant competition in the ad-clicking niche, the company has become a market leader - generation hundreds of billions of recommendations on a monthly basis. It has also engaged in a raft of acquisitions, including programmatic advertising company Perfect Market, and data-science led personalization firm Gravity R&D.

The company has invested heavily in R&D and expanded into areas like eCommerce and TV advertising, fuelled by the goal of moving “beyond the browser.” It has also made a series of partnerships with big names such as Yahoo and TIME, and is investigating the applications of generative AI for ad creation. This has resulted in the launch of "Abby", an AI assistant for managing ad campaigns.

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Kirsty

Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle

Benefits

  • Fully-stocked kitchen
  • Gym partnerships
  • 401k matching
  • Work from home opportunities
  • Health insurance

Company values

  • Empathy
  • Passion
  • Intellectual curiosity

Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)

Jun 2015

$3m

LATE VC

Feb 2015

$117m

SERIES E

Total funding: $160m

This company has top investors

Leadership

Adam Singolda

(Founder & CEO)

Worked as a R&D Manager in the Israeli Defense Forces for over 6 years. Founded Taboola in July 2007, serving as CEO ever since, alongside working as a Mentor at TechStars and co-founding K Health in November 2016.