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Enterprise Investors, the largest and oldest private equity firm in the Central and Eastern Europe with offices in Warszaw, Bucharest and New York, and Intel Capital, Intel’s venture investment fund having in its portfolio also Centrum (the Czech web portal Nr. 2), have acquired 65 % stake in Grisoft, Brno based security software company, for $52 million from current owners Benson Oak Capital.

Founded in 1991, Grisoft is a leading global provider of antivirus solutions with offices also in the US. The product line includes the AVG antivirus programme and firewall supporting all major operating systems and platforms with over 25 million users.

Next to Grisoft there is a bunch of several more successful Czech security software companies with their products collecting the prestigious awards - for example Kerio Technologies (with offices in California and Cambridge and its development team in Pilsen) contracted by US Air Force, Prague based Alwil or Brno based AEC and Trusted Network Solutions.