enclaive

enclaive builds confidential computing infrastructure — technology that keeps data encrypted even while it’s actively being processed, not just at rest or in transit, by running workloads inside hardware-isolated trusted execution environments (TEEs). Its enclaive Multi-Cloud Platform (eMCP) lets organizations orchestrate and provision these confidential-computing environments across different cloud providers from a single dashboard, and the company’s key claimed differentiator is that deploying into a TEE requires no changes to a customer’s existing code, tools, or processes — a real practical barrier for confidential computing adoption that most implementations require re-architecting applications around.

Founded in 2022 in Berlin by CEO Andreas Walbrodt and CTO Prof. Dr. Sebastian Gajek, enclaive raised a EUR 4.1 million seed round in February 2026 co-led by Join Capital and the Amadeus APEX Technology Fund, with support from Auriga Cyber Ventures, to accelerate sales, expand platform functionality, and support international growth. The company operates with a roughly 20-person team distributed across Berlin and other EU countries.

Confidential computing itself is a maturing but still-niche category — hyperscalers (AWS Nitro Enclaves, Azure confidential VMs) offer their own native TEE support, and enclaive’s bet is that enterprises running genuinely multi-cloud or hybrid environments need a vendor-neutral orchestration layer rather than separately managing each cloud’s native confidential-computing tooling. That’s a real gap for multi-cloud shops, but it also means enclaive’s addressable market depends on confidential computing adoption broadly accelerating, which remains an early-stage trend rather than an established enterprise default.