About enclaive 

Confidential computing,
engineered in Germany.

We fix that

We help regulated enterprises protect data in use — across any cloud, with
customer-held keys, attested workloads, and runtime evidence. No HSM
rip-and-replace. No vendor lock-in.

2022
Founded in Germany
25+
Team members
BSI · C5-2026
Aligned by design
100%
Vendor-agnostic
Our Mission

Make the cloud
trustworthy by default.

For decades, the industry has protected data at rest and in transit — and left it exposed the moment it gets used. We were founded to close that gap.

enclaive turns confidential computing into something a platform team can adopt in weeks, not years: lift-and-shift workloads, keys you control, and cryptographic proof of what ran, where, and on whose hardware.

What we build

One platform. Four pillars of trust.

From customer-held keys to confidential AI —
under a single control plane, on any cloud.

Customer-held keys
vHSM and Vault — your keys, your release policy. Never the cloud operator's.
Confidential VMs
Buckypaper — bring existing VMs into a confidential enclave with no refactor.
Confidential Kubernetes
Dyneemes — attested workload identity and namespace-level isolation for clusters.
Confidential AI
Run inference, RAG, and training over sensitive data — model and prompt stay yours.
Leadership

Meet our founders.

Regulated-industry veteran meets cryptography visionary.

Andreas Walbrodt
CEO & Co-founder
Tech strategist with over 30 years of expertise in cloud innovation and data security. Extensive track record in building innovative ventures and holding executive roles at IBM and TÜV Rheinland i-Sec GmbH.
Sebastian J. Gajek
CTO & Co-founder
Professor for IT security & cryptography. Confidential computing pioneer. Leads the engineering of enclaive's confidential computing platform.
Meet the team

The faces behind enclaive.

Cryptographers, kernel engineers, SREs, and regulated-industry specialists
— working from Germany and across Europe.

Andreas
Walbrodt
Sebastian
Gajek
Lina
Wille
Anastasios
Papakostas
Norbert
Müller
Daniel
Lim
Alexa
Walbrodt
Ahmed
Bouzid
Soeren
Langenberg
Ivan
Trofimov
Adriano
Scheuermann
Julia
Quambusch
Nicu
Dadu
Pavel
Krokhmal
Timo
Gosch
Advisors & Investors

Standing on the shoulders of experts
who've done this before.

Backed by investors and advisors with deep experience in cryptography,
infrastructure, and European deep tech.

Prof. Dr.
Norbert Pohlmann

Senior Advisor
Linkedin
Dr.
Rainer Baumgart

Senior Advisor
Linkedin
What we stand for

Our four core principles

01
Customer-held trust
Your keys, your policy, your audit trail. We don't hold what isn't ours to hold.
02
Vendor-agnostic by default
Every cloud, every chip technology, every region. No lock-in, ever.
03
Engineering rigour
Cryptographic attestation, open standards, Post-Quantum-Security. Marketing claims earn their keep.
04
European sovereignty
Built in Germany, aligned with BSI, GDPR, DORA, and NIS2. No operator access, including from third countries.

Let's protect your hardest workload —
together.

Tell us what you're trying to move. We'll map a phased path and the
controls you'll need to get there.