# Microsec

> Microsec is a VC fund in Budapest backing Software, Training and E-Learning. See 2 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Sep 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Budapest, Hungary
- Total investments: 2
- Last investment: Oct 2018
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Sep 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/microsec-ltd
- Website: https://x.com/MicrosecTSP
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/microsec.hu

Microsec is a VC fund in Budapest focused on Software and Training. Microsec provides services and business solutions based on public key infrastructure. It also offers trust services in accordance with eIDAS and PKI training and consultancy in Hungary and abroad.The company aims to create documents that are authentic and have probative value even in the electronic environment so that these documents can bedelivered from the sender to the recipient in a properly encrypted form through a safe channel. Microsec helps to expand and develops the means for user-friendly electronic administration in both the private and the state sector.The company was founded in 1984 and is headquartered in Budapest, Hungary.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 1 | 50% |
| Training | 1 | 50% |
| E-Learning | 1 | 50% |
| Cyber Security | 1 | 50% |
| Software Engineering | 1 | 50% |

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 1 | 50% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 50% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Avatao | Avatao’s security training goes beyond simple tutorials and videos offering an interactive job-relevant learning experience to developer teams, security champions, pentesters, security analysts and DevOps teams.With 600+ challenges and tutorials in 10+ languages, the platform covers a wide range of security topics across the entire security stackfrom OWASP Top 10 to DevSecOps and Cryptography. The platform immerses developers in high-profile cases and provides them with real, in-depth experience with challenging security breaches. Engineers will actually learn to hack and patch the bugs themselves. This way Avatao equips software engineering teams with a security mindset that increases their capability to reduce risks and react to known vulnerabilities faster. This in turn increases the security capability of a company to ship high-quality products. | $900K | Seed | Oct 01, 2018 | https://www.avatao.com |
| Avatao | Avatao’s security training goes beyond simple tutorials and videos offering an interactive job-relevant learning experience to developer teams, security champions, pentesters, security analysts and DevOps teams.With 600+ challenges and tutorials in 10+ languages, the platform covers a wide range of security topics across the entire security stackfrom OWASP Top 10 to DevSecOps and Cryptography. The platform immerses developers in high-profile cases and provides them with real, in-depth experience with challenging security breaches. Engineers will actually learn to hack and patch the bugs themselves. This way Avatao equips software engineering teams with a security mindset that increases their capability to reduce risks and react to known vulnerabilities faster. This in turn increases the security capability of a company to ship high-quality products. | $200K | Pre-Seed | Sep 01, 2017 | https://www.avatao.com |

2 of 2 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [FastVentures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fastventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [500 Global](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/500-startups) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Speedinvest](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/speedinvest) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Microsec invest in?

Microsec invests primarily in Software, Training and E-Learning startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 2 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Hungary. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Microsec last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Microsec closed in Oct 2018. Shizune tracks 2 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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