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Pactum

Mountain View, US · Founded 2019 · 159 employees on LinkedIn · 10 known investors

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Pactum builds autonomous AI agents that negotiate supplier contracts and manage procurement at enterprise scale. The platform handles thousands of supplier negotiations simultaneously, optimizing pricing, payment terms, and contract conditions for Global 2000 companies across manufacturing, retail, and consumer goods sectors.

Also known as Pactum AI

Founders & leadership

Pactum was founded in 2019 by Kristjan Korjus, Kaspar Korjus, and Martin Rand.

KKKristjan Korjus
Kristjan KorjusinCo-Founder and Chief ScientistKristjan Korjus is a co-founder of Pactum, which builds AI agents that automate commercial negotiations for large enterprises. He was previously head of AI at Starship Technologies, led a GitHub project replicating DeepMind's Atari-playing AI, co-authored the Estonian mathematics book "Bedside Reading About Mathematics," and holds a Ph.D. in computer science and a master's in mathematics.
KKKaspar Korjus
Kaspar KorjusinCo-Founder & CEOKaspar Korjus is co-founder and CEO of Pactum, which builds autonomous AI agents that negotiate supplier contracts and manage enterprise procurement. He previously was the founding managing director of Estonia's e-Residency program and holds degrees from the University of Bradford and Lancaster University.
MRMartin Rand
Martin RandinBoard member & Co-Founder2024–2025Martin Rand co-founded Pactum AI, which develops autonomous AI agents for enterprise contract negotiation and procurement, after previous roles as Product Manager at Skype and founder of VitalFields (acquired by Monsanto), where he led commercial operations for The Climate Corporation in Europe.

Board

BBBen Blume
Ben Blumein𝕏Board directorPartner at Atomico
JZJosh Zelman
Josh ZelmaninBoard directorManaging Director at Insight Partners
TS
Thies SanderBoard director

Investors · 10

Reported raises · per SEC filings

Form D private placements

$61M disclosed across 2 of 3 rounds · 2021–2025

$50MraisedJun 2025 · 11 investors · Other Technology
Rule 506(b)
Officers, directors & promoters on the filing
  • Kristjan KorjusExecutive Officer, Director
  • Kaspar KorjusExecutive Officer, Director
  • Ben BlumeDirector
  • Josh ZelmanDirector
  • Thies SanderDirector
Offering amount
$50M
Amount sold
$50M
First sale
May 2025
Incorporated
Corporation, Delaware
Federal exemptions
06b
Full filing on SEC EDGAR ↗
$11MraisedMay 2021 · 5 investors · Other Technology
Rule 506(b)
Officers, directors & promoters on the filing
  • Kaspar KorjusExecutive Officer, Director
  • Kristjan KorjusExecutive Officer, Director
  • Ben BlumeDirector
  • Martin RandExecutive Officer, Director
  • Thies SanderDirector
Offering amount
$11M
Amount sold
$11M
Minimum investment
$133.4K
First sale
Apr 2021
Incorporated
Corporation, Delaware, 2019
Federal exemptions
06b
Full filing on SEC EDGAR ↗

Source: SEC EDGAR Form D. Amounts as filed; amended filings shown once at their latest values.

Company profile

researched Aug 2026

Pactum is an enterprise procurement software company that develops autonomous, or "agentic," AI agents which conduct supplier negotiations on behalf of large buying organizations. The agents are embedded in a customer's enterprise systems, operate within policies and guardrails set by procurement buyers, and can either execute agreements autonomously or route them for buyer approval. The company describes its offering as covering indirect spend, direct materials and supplier management.

The product is packaged as a suite of task-specific agents: a Requisition Alignment Agent (validates completeness, policy compliance and commercial relevance before a negotiation starts), a Tactical Sourcing Agent (short-cycle and urgent sourcing, from quote collection through final terms, including converting sole-sourced requests into competitive RFQs), a Requisitions Negotiation Agent (negotiates pricing and working-capital terms inside requisition workflows and in sole-source situations before a PO is created), a Post-Sourcing Negotiation Agent (captures additional value after sourcing events conclude through term refinements and payment optimization), a Price List Negotiation Agent (updates item pricing as demand, indices and market conditions change), a Discount Negotiation Agent, a Payment Terms Negotiation Agent, and a Rebate Negotiation Agent. Agents run continuously across time zones and are positioned to address mid-tier and tail spend that manual teams leave unmanaged.

Pactum states it serves more than 60 enterprise customers, including Walmart, Suez, Honeywell and Bristol Myers Squibb, and reports typical improvement rates of 2-7% on under-managed spend. Its AI agents negotiate in ten languages, including Japanese and Spanish.

Founding story

Pactum was founded in 2019 by Kaspar Korjus, Kristjan Korjus and Martin Rand with the aim of applying advanced negotiation science to build enterprise-ready agentic AI capable of handling real procurement complexity. Kaspar Korjus is a former director of Estonia's e-residency programme. The company's origins lie in a pilot project with a Spanish taxi firm, and its deployment with Walmart marked its commercial breakthrough.

Business model

Pactum sells an enterprise software platform to large corporate procurement organizations, deploying AI negotiation agents that integrate with existing ERP, P2P and rebate systems. Deployment is supported by implementation specialists who work alongside customer procurement teams on adoption, and the company reports annual recurring revenue as a headline metric, indicating a subscription-based commercial arrangement.

Recurring software revenue; the company reported a 2.5x increase in annual recurring revenue in the year preceding its June 2025 Series C.

Traction

The company reports more than 60 enterprise customers (over 50 Global 2000 organizations at the time of the June 2025 Series C), a 489% increase in spend handled by its AI agents, 2.5x annual recurring revenue growth, and more than 25 new Global 2000 customers added in the year before the Series C. Its largest agent-negotiated deal was valued at $140.5 million and its fastest deal was negotiated and signed by its agents in 87 seconds. The company cites an 82% supplier satisfaction rate and states customers typically see results within two months of implementation.

Latest developments

In June 2025 Pactum announced a $54 million Series C led by Insight Partners, with Insight Managing Director Josh Zelman joining the board. In December 2025 the company announced the launch of Price Lists for Direct Materials, extending its agentic AI to direct materials cost management, and won the 2025 Future Unicorn Award at the Masters of Digital Europe Awards after being named a finalist. The company also publicizes a collaboration with SAP on agentic AI in procurement.

Full profile — market position, technology, go-to-market, geography, history

Market position

Pactum positions itself as a pioneer of autonomous negotiation in procurement and claims category leadership in agentic AI for procurement. External validation cited includes the "Best Autonomous Procurement Solution" award from Digital Procurement World, inclusion in the ProcureTech 100, and winning the 2025 Future Unicorn Award at the Masters of Digital Europe Awards. Coverage of its Series C described the round as the largest startup investment in Estonia that year.

Pactum emphasizes that its agents are built specifically for enterprise procurement rather than adapted from general-purpose AI, handling complex contract terms, regulatory compliance, risk mitigation and supplier relationship dynamics. It stresses enterprise governance, auditability of every negotiation decision, encoding of human procurement expertise into agent operating parameters, and the ability to run thousands of simultaneous negotiations continuously.

Technology

The platform applies negotiation science and agentic AI purpose-built for procurement rather than general-purpose AI tooling. Agents are trained on procurement-specific complexities such as payment-term implications, supplier risk signals and the trade-off between cost savings and supplier relationships, and they adapt strategies in real time to supplier responses and market conditions. Decisions are designed to be transparent and auditable, exposing which data points and strategies influenced each negotiation. The architecture integrates with existing ERP platforms and respects organizational approval hierarchies. Services are hosted on Google Cloud Platform, with databases encrypted at rest and TLS/SSL encryption in transit. The company operates an information security program aligned to the SOC 2 framework, undergoes independent third-party assessments and at least annual penetration testing and risk assessments, and applies least-privilege access control with SSO, 2FA and quarterly access reviews.

Go-to-market

Direct enterprise sales supported by demo requests, combined with a partner network spanning business process outsourcers, management consultancies, strategy firms, system integrators and procurement technology providers. Partners help design negotiation strategies, integrate Pactum agents into ERP, P2P and rebate platforms, and run change management and adoption programs. The company has also highlighted a collaboration with SAP around agentic AI.

Global 2000 and large multinational enterprises, particularly chief procurement officers and procurement teams in manufacturing, retail, consumer goods and utilities. Named customers include Walmart, Veritiv, Suez, Linde Group, Global Industrial, Mediclinic, Vallen, Otto, Honeywell, Novartis, Tetra Pak, Bristol Myers Squibb and Maersk.

Geography

Operations span Estonia and the United States, with the company described as headquartered between Tallinn and San Francisco and its Series C release issued from California. Engineering and AI development are centred in Tallinn and Tartu. Customers are global enterprises, and agents negotiate in ten languages.

History

Founded in 2019, Pactum moved from early pilots to enterprise deployments, with Walmart as a breakthrough customer. It raised a $20 million round covered by Estonian press before announcing a $54 million Series C in June 2025 led by Insight Partners, taking total funding past $100 million. In the year preceding that round it added more than 25 Global 2000 customers, including Honeywell, Novartis and Tetra Pak. In December 2025 it was named a finalist for, and then won, the 2025 Future Unicorn Award at the Masters of Digital Europe Awards, and launched Price Lists for Direct Materials.

Compiled by commissioned research from 8 cited public sources — announcements, filings, and press listed under research sources below.

Key figures

latest reported
Enterprise customersJan 202560 customers
Fastest deal negotiated and signed by AI agentsJun 202587 seconds
Global 2000 customersJun 202550 customers
Improvement on under-managed spendJan 20252-7% depending on use case and category
Increase in negotiation volumesJan 2025500%
Increase in platform usageJun 2025270%
Increase in spend handled by AI agentsJun 2025489%
Largest deal negotiated by AI agentsJun 2025$140.5M
Negotiation languages supportedJun 202510 languages
New Global 2000 customers addedJun 202525 customers
Supplier satisfaction rateJan 202582%

Company-reported or press-reported figures, each dated to when it was claimed — not independently audited.

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Timeline · 7

launches, deals, and filings
Dec 2025
Named finalist for the 2025 Future Unicorn Award

Pactum AI was named a finalist for the 2025 Future Unicorn Award at the Masters of Digital Europe Awards.

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Dec 2025
Launch of Price Lists for Direct Materials

Pactum expanded its agentic AI capabilities with the launch of Price Lists for Direct Materials, covering AI-driven cost management and autonomous negotiation for enterprises.

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Jun 2025
Pactum raises $54M Series C led by Insight Partners

Pactum announced a $54 million Series C led by Insight Partners, bringing total funding to date to more than $100 million (reported elsewhere as just over $109 million). Existing investors listed include Atomico, Project A, 3VC, SuperAngel and Maersk Growth. Insight Managing Director Josh Zelman joined the board of directors.

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Jun 2025
Josh Zelman joins Pactum's board of directors

As part of the Series C investment, Insight Partners Managing Director Josh Zelman joined Pactum's board of directors.

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Jan 2025
Recognized as Best Autonomous Procurement Solution by Digital Procurement World

Pactum states it was named "Best Autonomous Procurement Solution" by Digital Procurement World and included in the ProcureTech 100.

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Jan 2025
Wins Future Unicorn Award at Masters of Digital Europe Awards

Pactum won the 2025 Future Unicorn Award at the Masters of Digital Europe conference, cited by the company as recognition of its AI-powered negotiation solutions.

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Jan 2025
Collaboration with SAP on agentic AI

Pactum publicizes a collaboration with SAP, featuring CEO Kaspar Korjus and Mo Ahmad, Head of Market Strategy and Development EMEA at SAP, discussing how agentic AI is leveraged in the partnership.

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Dated company events from announcements, filings, and press; legal rows summarize public dockets and regulator releases.

In the news

Research sources · 8

primary sources listed

8 public sources were cited for this profile; the first-party ones are listed here.

Frequently asked questions

What does Pactum do?
Pactum builds autonomous AI agents that negotiate supplier pricing, terms and rebates for large enterprises at scale.
Who founded Pactum?
Pactum was founded by Kristjan Korjus, Kaspar Korjus, Martin Rand in 2019.
Who are Pactum's investors?
Pactum's investors include 3VC, Insight Partners, Karma Ventures, Maersk Growth, Metaplanet, NordicNinja, PortfoLion Capital Partners, Project A Ventures and 2 more.
How much funding has Pactum raised?
Pactum has disclosed $61M raised across 2 of its 3 known rounds.
Where is Pactum headquartered?
Pactum is headquartered in Mountain View, US.