- The Berlin-based cybersecurity company enables businesses to protect sensitive data and applications through its Multi Cloud Platform, requiring no changes to existing code, tools, or processes.
- The Seed round was co-led by Join Capital and the Amadeus APEX Technology Fund, with participation from Auriga Cyber Ventures.
- The funds will accelerate sales and marketing, expand theenclaiveMulti Cloud Platform (eMCP) functionality, and support further international expansion.
Berlin, Germany – 2 February 2026 – enclaive, a deep tech cybersecurity company specializing in confidential computing, today announced the successful closing of a €4.1 million Seed funding round, co-led by Join Capital and the Amadeus APEX Technology Fund, with participation from Auriga Cyber Ventures.
A perfect storm of aggressive AI adoption, strict new data laws, and sophisticated cyber threats has turned the cloud into a high-stakes compromise. While the cloud offers undeniable scale, 59% of organisations remain paralysed by security concerns. They are searching for a way to embrace the future without being forced to ‘trust’ their infrastructure.
For many security and compliance teams, the challenge is what happens when data is actively processed. This “last mile” of exposure has become a barrier to moving workloads to the cloud, particularly in sectors such as the public sector, finance, healthcare, critical infrastructure, and AI, where even momentary access can pose material risk.
enclaive addresses this bottleneck by making confidential computing practical at scale. The company’s Multi Cloud Platform (eMCP) enables organisations to deploy applications in “secure enclaves” across any cloud provider, ensuring data remains protected at all times—without requiring changes to existing code, tools, or processes.
“Cloud adoption has moved faster than trust. As companies push AI and sensitive workloads into multi-cloud environments, they need security guarantees that go beyond policy and perimeter defenses,” said Andreas Walbrodt, Co-Founder and CEO of enclaive. “With enclaive, businesses don’t need to trust the cloud – their data, microservices, and AI models are shielded from unauthorised access at every moment. We’re making confidential computing accessible for any organisation, regardless of technical expertise.”
“Confidential computing has existed in academia for years, but remained inaccessible to most organisations. The breakthrough is hardware-based memory encryption that only the CPU can unlock—we’ve built the software layer that makes this technology deployable in days, not months,” added Prof. Dr. Sebastian Gajek, Co-Founder and CTO of enclaive.
Unlike competitors that require significant development resources, enclaive’s operations-first approach enables rapid deployment with full control across all trust elements, vendor independence, and a modular architecture. The platform supports enterprise workloads, including Kubernetes clusters, virtual machines, and AI applications across multiple cloud environments.
“Enclaive is the key to unlocking a truly free and private internet,” said Simone Lavizzari, Principal at Join Capital. “While others demand complex integrations, Enclaive delivers a ‘zero-code-change’ solution that scales. This is the breakthrough Confidential Computing/AI needs to go mainstream: and they are the clear frontrunner to become the default confidential layer for the industry.”
“Confidential computing represents the solution to a 40-year-old security challenge—creating an unhackable black box where data remains encrypted even during processing,” said Ion Hauer, Principal at APEX Ventures. “The timing is critical. With regulations such as the US Cloud Act, which allow authorities to demand data from servers regardless of location, European organizations face a sovereignty dilemma. Confidential computing offers a technical answer to this political challenge—even if data is demanded, it remains encrypted and inaccessible. This is infrastructure-level security that the market urgently needs.”
The funding will support commercial scaling through expanded sales and marketing efforts, enhancement of the eMCP platform functionality, team growth focused on engineering and operations, and initial international expansion.
Founded in 2022, enclaive has built a strong foundation with its 20-person team distributed across Berlin and EU countries. The company has earned significant industry recognition, including the 2025 Prix Croissance at the InCyber Forum, 2024 TeleTrust Product of the Year, and the 2023 ITSA Up Award.
