enclaive, a German cybersecurity company specialising in
confidential computing, has raised €4.1 million in seed funding, with the round
co-led by Join Capital and the Amadeus APEX Technology Fund and supported by
Auriga Cyber Ventures.
Rising AI adoption, evolving data protection regulations,
and increasingly sophisticated cyber threats have heightened security concerns
around cloud computing. While cloud platforms offer scalability, many
organisations remain cautious when it comes to migrating sensitive workloads.
A particular challenge for security and compliance teams
lies in protecting data during active processing. This stage of exposure can
limit cloud adoption, especially in sectors such as the public sector, finance,
healthcare, critical infrastructure, and AI, where even brief access to
sensitive data can pose elevated risk.
enclaive addresses this issue by enabling confidential
computing across multi-cloud environments. Its platform allows organisations to
deploy applications within secure enclaves, with the aim of protecting data
throughout processing without requiring changes to existing code, tools, or
operational workflows.
Andreas Walbrodt, co-founder and CEO of enclaive, explained
that the pace of cloud adoption has exceeded the level of trust many
organisations have in existing security models, particularly as AI and
sensitive workloads are increasingly deployed across multiple cloud
environments.
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,
Walbrodt added.
The platform is designed to support enterprise workloads
such as Kubernetes clusters, virtual machines, and AI applications, using a
modular and vendor-agnostic architecture intended to simplify deployment and
operational control.
The new funding will be used to support commercial growth,
further development of the eMCP platform, expansion of engineering and
operations teams, and initial international expansion.