Our product

Teaching developers to write secure software

Avatao helps companies building a security culture in software engineering with an awesome, hands-on, online security training for developers. We have customers in Europe and we are getting substantial interest in the US. We constantly thrive for better and we are full of surprises. If you like challenges, join us!

Our mission

The goal of Avatao is to help software teams build a world where software can be trusted. With the rapid pace of software development and the advent of new technologies like IoT, self-driving cars, home automation, advanced robotics, AI, it is more important than ever to build security into these new software products from their inception to avoid incidents of massive scale.

What would I miss if I left?

I love the way we work together, and the fact that we can see the direct contribution of our work. Not one day is like the other!

— Maïté Hacquin , Business Team Lead

Office address

Budapest, Alíz utca 1, 1117 Magyarország

Office photo

What makes our product special

IT security DevSecOps Hands-on exercises Continuous learning

Family-friendly

Our story

2014.07

Avatao was founded from a side project at CrySyS Lab at BME in Budapest.
2016.09

The side project became popular and we released the first version of the platform to the public.
2017.08

We received the first investment and started to conquer the world and we moved into our new office.
2018.10

Seed funding allows us to expand to international markets, mostly UK/US. Team is expanding.
2020.07

We moved to a new, bigger, brighter office

How can the employees affect the company’s life?

No bullshit is our motto. Try to keep a flat company structure. We emphasize honesty and are open to hear about new ideas and we have regular team and 1-1 meetings where each one of us has their word.

Eco-friendly

Favourite thing in the office

Trainings and workshops

We are building a systematic career plan with each person. Starting with small trainings, meetups, conferences, our goal is that everyone on the team keeps growing.

Lightning round

Beer, wine or shot?: Beers, wine and shots!
Ties or shorts?: Shorts
Superpower?: Persistence

Home Office opportunity

Our clients

Why we love our office

Our office is full of light and it's spacious. We love to hang out together in the huge kitchen, and the whole team can fit into the huge center space, but we also believe in focused, chill concentration, so you can decide whether to work in an open-office space or in a corner office with a view.