Berlin-based cybersecurity startup enclaive has raised €4.1M in Seed funding to accelerate the rollout of its confidential computing platform, enabling enterprises to protect sensitive data and applications across multiple cloud providers without changing existing code or workflows.
The funding round was co-led by Join Capital and the Amadeus APEX Technology Fund, with participation from Auriga Cyber Ventures. The new capital will be used to scale sales and marketing activities, expand the functionality of enclaive’s Multi Cloud Platform, and support international expansion.
Addressing the trust gap in cloud adoption
As AI adoption accelerates and data regulations tighten, many organizations remain hesitant to move critical workloads to the cloud due to security concerns during data processing. This so-called last mile of exposure has become a major barrier, particularly in regulated sectors such as finance, healthcare, public services, critical infrastructure, and AI-driven industries.
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Confidential computing without code changes
enclaive tackles this challenge by making confidential computing deployable at scale. Its Multi Cloud Platform allows organizations to run applications inside secure enclaves across any cloud provider, ensuring data remains protected even while being processed. The platform is designed to work without requiring changes to existing applications, development tools, or operational processes.
Making hardware-level security accessible
According to CEO and co-founder Andreas Walbrodt, cloud adoption has outpaced trust, especially as sensitive workloads move into multi-cloud environments. enclaive aims to remove the need for implicit trust in cloud infrastructure by ensuring data, microservices, and AI models are shielded from unauthorized access at all times.
CTO and co-founder Prof. Dr. Sebastian Gajek adds that while confidential computing has long existed in research, enclaive has built the software layer that makes hardware-based memory encryption usable in real-world enterprise environments within days rather than months.
Positioning for enterprise and AI workloads
The platform supports Kubernetes clusters, virtual machines, and AI workloads across multiple clouds, offering vendor independence and a modular architecture. Investors see enclaive’s zero-code-change approach as a key differentiator in bringing confidential computing into mainstream enterprise and AI deployments.
Scaling the platform and expanding internationally
With the new funding, enclaive plans to grow its engineering and operations teams, enhance the capabilities of its platform, and begin expanding beyond its current European footprint. Founded in 2022, the company now employs around 20 people across Berlin and other EU locations and has received multiple industry awards for its technology.
About enclaive
enclaive is a Berlin-headquartered deep tech cybersecurity company focused on confidential computing. Its Multi Cloud Platform enables enterprises to encrypt data while it is in use, protecting applications from unauthorized access by infrastructure and service providers. By giving organizations full control over sensitive data across cloud environments, enclaive aims to deliver infrastructure-level security for modern, multi-cloud workloads.
