Berlin-based enclaive, a deep-tech cybersecurity company focused on confidential computing, has raised a €4.1 million seed round to expand its Multi Cloud Platform and accelerate go-to-market. The financing was co-led by Join Capital and the Amadeus APEX Technology Fund, with participation from Auriga Cyber Ventures.
The company is positioning its platform as an answer to what it describes as a growing “last mile” security and compliance gap in cloud adoption, where sensitive data can be exposed while it is actively processed. enclaive says this concern is increasingly acute as organizations move AI workloads and other regulated use cases into multi-cloud environments, particularly across the public sector, finance, healthcare, and critical infrastructure.
enclaive’s Multi Cloud Platform, or eMCP, is designed to enable organizations to deploy applications in secure enclaves across cloud providers while keeping data protected in use, without requiring changes to existing code, tools, or processes. The company says its operations-first approach supports enterprise workloads, including Kubernetes clusters, virtual machines, and AI applications across multiple cloud environments, with an emphasis on vendor independence and modular deployment.
The new funding will be used to expand sales and marketing, deepen eMCP functionality, hire across engineering and operations, and begin initial international expansion. Founded in 2022, enclaive says it has a 20-person team distributed across Berlin and other EU countries, and cites industry recognition, including the 2025 Prix Croissance at the InCyber Forum, 2024 TeleTrust Product of the Year, and the 2023 ITSA Up Award.
KEY QUOTES:
“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. With enclaive, businesses don’t need to trust the cloud – their data, microservices, and AI models are shielded from unauthorized access at every moment. We’re making confidential computing accessible for any organization, regardless of technical expertise.”
Andreas Walbrodt, Co Founder And CEO, Enclaive
“Confidential computing has existed in academia for years, but remained inaccessible to most organizations. 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.”
Prof. Dr. Sebastian Gajek, Co Founder And CTO, Enclaive
“enclaive is the key to unlocking a truly free and private internet. While others demand complex integrations, enclaive delivers a ‘zero-code-change’ solution that scales. This is the breakthrough in confidential computing that AI needs to go mainstream and enclaive is the clear frontrunner to become the default confidential layer for the industry.”
Simone Lavizzari, Principal, Join Capital
“Confidential computing represents the solution to a 40-year-old security challenge – creating an unhackable black box where data remains encrypted even during processing. 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.”
Ion Hauer, Principal, APEX Ventures
