Tamás Balassa

Pactum is an AI-based system that helps global companies to automatically offer personalized, commercial negotiations on a massive scale. The system adds value and saves time for both the Pactum client and their negotiation partner by aligning their values to determine win-win agreements via an easy-to-use chat interface that implements best-practice negotiation strategies. The company is based in Mountain View with engineering and operations in Estonia. Pactum is backed by founders of Skype and TransferWise and built by luminaries from Skype, Starship Technologies, and the Government of Estonia’s e-Residency program.

Taboola is the world leader in powering recommendations for the open web, used by digital properties like websites, devices and apps, while helping people discover things they may like. Taboola Budapest, former known as Gravity R&D was acquired by Taboola in July 2022. The transaction brought Gravity R&D, a leading personalization technology company founded in data science to Taboola, and added the technology and the award-winning team behind our personalization solution Yusp to Taboola’s technology. Previously, Gravity R&D founders had tied for first place for the Netflix Prize, a public competition to find a team to improve Netflix’s recommendation technology. With the acquisition of Gravity R&D, Taboola is adding a new research and development hub in Gravity R&D’s headquarters in Hungary. Read more on https://discover.taboola.com/taboola-budapest/

Pactum is an AI-based system that helps global companies to automatically offer personalized, commercial negotiations on a massive scale. The system adds value and saves time for both the Pactum client and their negotiation partner by aligning their values to determine win-win agreements via an easy-to-use chat interface that implements best-practice negotiation strategies. The company is based in Mountain View with engineering and operations in Estonia. Pactum is backed by founders of Skype and TransferWise and built by luminaries from Skype, Starship Technologies, and the Government of Estonia’s e-Residency program.

PortfoLion is a CEE-focused venture capital (VC) and growth equity firm with a value of EUR 450 million assets under management. Backed by OTP Group, PortfoLion manages funds with a sector-agnostic approach and invests in companies with large upscale potential from early stage to buyout.

Taboola is the world leader in powering recommendations for the open web, used by digital properties like websites, devices and apps, while helping people discover things they may like. Taboola Budapest, former known as Gravity R&D was acquired by Taboola in July 2022. The transaction brought Gravity R&D, a leading personalization technology company founded in data science to Taboola, and added the technology and the award-winning team behind our personalization solution Yusp to Taboola’s technology. Previously, Gravity R&D founders had tied for first place for the Netflix Prize, a public competition to find a team to improve Netflix’s recommendation technology. With the acquisition of Gravity R&D, Taboola is adding a new research and development hub in Gravity R&D’s headquarters in Hungary. Read more on https://discover.taboola.com/taboola-budapest/