r & d company type private industry software founded 2007 2007 headquarters budapest hungary number of locations turkey japan indonesia thailand vietnam romania gy r area served worldwide key people domonkos tikk ceo & co founder g bor t th md of gravity b & m kevin jackson sales director viktor ger member of the board botty n n meth product owner co founder istv n pil szy head of development co founder products yusp reco for e commerce reco for bricks & mortar retailers retail banks and telecommunications companies services it services personalization saas owner hungarian institutional strategic investors wojciech uzdelewicz 1 founders number of employees 40 website gravityrd.com yusp.com gravity r & d full name gravity research & development zrt . is an it vendor specialized in recommender systems . gravity was founded by members of the netflix prize team gravity . gravity is headquartered in hungary budapest & gy r with local offices in turkey japan indonesia thailand vietnam and romania . contents 1 history 1.1 netflix prize 1.2 early years 1.3 yusp 1.4 gravity b & m 2 awards and recognition 3 clients 4 references 5 external links history edit netflix prize edit further information netflix prize the netflix prize was an open competition for the best collaborative filtering algorithm to predict user ratings for films based on previous ratings . the prize would be awarded to the team achieving over 10 % improvement over netflix s own cinematch algorithm . the team gravity was the front runner during january may 2007 . 2 the leading position was achieved again in october 2007 in collaboration with the team dinosaur planet under the name when gravity and dinosaurs unite . in january 2009 the two teams founded grand prize team to initiate even wider collaboration that resulted in being one of the leading teams throughout 2009 . on july 25 2009 the team the ensemble a merger of the teams grand prize team and opera solutions and vandelay united achieved a 10.10 % improvement over cinematch on the quiz set . 3 on september 18 2009 netflix announced team bellkor s pragmatic chaos as the prize winner and the prize was awarded to the team in a ceremony on september 21 2009 . 4 the ensemble team had in fact succeeded to match the winning bellkor team s result but since bellkor submitted their results 20 minutes earlier the rules award the prize to them . 5 6 details on the algorithms developed by the gravity team can be found in their scientific publications . 7 8 9 some algorithms are patented in the us . 10 the data mining team of the company is actively doing research in the field of recommender systems and publish their recent results regularly . 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 early years edit in 2009 and 2011 gravity r & d got 2 rounds of investments from include hungarian institutional strategic investors wojciech uzdelewicz an all star analyst at wall street according to hedge funds 2 former managing director of duquesque capital 29 and the financial investor portfolion . gravity r & d introduced in 2010 reco its cloud based saas personalization solutions for online businesses e commerce market places classified media publishers etc . yusp edit gravity r & d extended its product portfolio in 2015 by introducing its automated turn key recommender system yusp for small and medium enterprises smes . gravity b & m edit in 2016 the firm expanded internationally and established new practice areas . through its own subsidiary called gravity bricks & mortar the company is developing and providing personalization and recommendation solutions to retail and supermarket chains retail banks and telecommunications companies worldwide by closely cooperating professionally and commercially 19 with its strategic partner deloitte hungary in the joint sale and implementation of the above mentioned solutions to whom it may be of interest . deloitte consulting was recently ranked by gartner idc and kennedy as the leading consulting firm globally for the fifth consecutive year named a leader in business transformation consulting by forrester and serves 90 % of fortune 500 companies . awards and recognition edit winner of the first edition of the strands 100k call for recommender start ups october 24 2008 20 21 winner of the red herring 100 europe april 3 2009 22 selected among europe s top 25 most innovative start ups at eurecan european venture contest 2009 eevc . december 2009 23 winner of the international classified media association s show me the money prize at the 2012 icma innovation award . 24 2012 acm recsys honorable mention 25 member of the fp7 eu project crowdrec 26 selected to represent hungary in the v4 google summit on digital economy in september 2014 along with other hungarian startups prezi maven7 and intellisense 27 recipient of the 2015 deloitte technology fast 50 in central europe 28 award as the 2nd fastest growing startup in hungary and the 25th fastest growing startup overall in the ce region . clients edit gravity r & d has customers on 5 continents in more than 20 countries among others in the us switzerland japan brazil france poland romania hungary morocco india vietnam indonesia malaysia and australia . 29 gravity serves in april 2016 over 4 billion recommendations per month to its customers with an estimated 30 million dollars extra revenue per month . 30 gravity has numerous notable clients including gittigidiyor ebay turkey dailymotion 31 rci 32 naspers emag 33 allegro 34 vatera tiki.vn schibsted media group muday.my tutti.ch . references edit how hedge funds rate wall street analysts 2003 . hafner katie june 4 2007 . netflix prize still awaits a movie seer . the new york times . retrieved 2010 03 07 . the ensemble . 2009 07 25 . grand prize awarded to team bellkor s pragmatic chaos . netflix prize forum . 2009 09 21 . steve lohr 2009 09 21 . a 1 million research bargain for netflix and maybe a model for others . new york times . m trixfaktoriz ci egymilli doll r rt . index . 2009 08 07 . tak cs g. b. ; pil szy i. n. ; n meth b. n. ; tikk d. 2007 . major components of the gravity recommendation system . acm sigkdd explorations newsletter . 9 2 80 . doi 10.1145 1345448.1345466 . g bor tak cs istv n pil szy botty n n meth domonkos tikk 2007 on the gravity recommendation system pdf in g bor tak cs and istv n pil szy and botty n n meth and domonkos tikk proc . kdd cup workshop at sigkdd pdf format requires url help san jose california pp. 22 30 retrieved 2010 04 15 cs1 maint uses authors parameter link cs1 maint uses editors parameter link g bor tak cs istv n pil szy botty n n meth domonkos tikk 2009 scalable collaborative filtering approaches for large recommender systems pdf cs1 maint uses authors parameter link us patent 8676736 pilaszy et al. recommender systems and methods using modified alternating least squares algorithm issued 2014 03 18 istv n pil szy domonkos tikk 2009 recommending new movies even a few ratings are more valuable than metadata cs1 maint uses authors parameter link istv n pil szy d vid zibriczky domonkos tikk 2010 fast als based matrix factorization for explicit and implicit feedback datasets cs1 maint uses authors parameter link g bor tak cs istv n pil szy domonkos tikk 2011 applications of the conjugate gradient method for implicit feedback collaborative filtering cs1 maint uses authors parameter link bal zs hidasi domonkos tikk 2012 fast als based tensor factorization for context aware recommendation from implicit feedback cs1 maint uses authors parameter link g bor tak cs domonkos tikk 2012 alternating least squares for personalized ranking cs1 maint uses authors parameter link bal zs hidasi domonkos tikk 2013 context aware item to item recommendation within the factorization framework cs1 maint uses authors parameter link alan said domonkos tikk paolo cremonesi 2014 benchmarking cs1 maint uses authors parameter link bal zs hidasi domonkos tikk 2014 approximate modeling of continuous context in factorization algorithms cs1 maint uses authors parameter link deloitte appears on the market with a new service technology portfolio . 2016 08 24 via trademagazin . acm recommender systems 2008 home . recsys.acm.org . 2008 10 23 . retrieved 2010 05 02 . strands blog instant personalized tv entertainment developer gravity r & d winner of the strands 100k call for recommender start ups . blog.strands.com . retrieved 2010 05 02 . http www.supertext.ch info wp content themes supertext images news redherring europe finalists 2009.pdf europe unlimited . e unlimited.com . 1999 12 04 . retrieved 2010 05 02 . icma innovation award 2012 . icma . retrieved 4 may 2012 . recsys 2012 awards and honorable mentions . crowdrec . gravityrd intellisen maven7 and prezi are showing the innovation potential of the v4 region . technology fast 50 central europe 2015 pdf . deloitte.com . 2015 . netflix prize runner up unveils programming recommendations technology . itvt . 2010 04 13 . lessons learnt at building recommendation services at industry scale . slideshare . 2016 03 04 . el re megmondj k hogy milyen vide t fogsz n zni . index.hu . 2014 08 29 . know what they like recommend what they want rci ventures march 2012 emag gravity implinit colaborare . www.cristianchinabirta.ro . 2016 03 03 . gravity r & d the leading personalization provider partners with e commerce operator allegro . 2015 06 29 via pr newswire . external links edit official website gravity r & d at crunchbase coordinates 47 29 38 n 19 07 21 e 47.494013 n 19.122559 e 47.494013 ; 19.122559 retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title gravity r % 26d & oldid 738022906 categories companies based in budapestprivately held companies of hungarysoftware companies of hungaryrecommender systemshidden categories pages using citations with format and no urlcs1 maint uses authors parametercs1 maint uses editors parametercoordinates not on wikidata navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate 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