- The Berlin-based cybersecurity company enables businesses to protect sensitive data and applications through its Multi Cloud Platform, requiring no changes to existing code, tools, or processes.
- The Seed round was co-led by Join Capital and the Amadeus APEX Technology Fund, with participation from Auriga Cyber Ventures.
- The funds will accelerate sales and marketing, expand the enclaive Multi Cloud Platform (eMCP) functionality, and support further international expansion
Berlin, Germany– 3 February 2026 – enclaive, a deep tech cybersecurity company specializing in confidential computing, today announced the successful closing of a €4.1 million Seed funding round, co-led by Join Capital and the Amadeus APEX Technology Fund, with participation from Auriga Cyber Ventures.
A perfect storm of aggressive AI adoption, strict new data laws, and sophisticated cyber threats has turned the cloud into a high-stakes compromise. While the cloud offers undeniable scale, 59% of organizations remain paralyzed by security concerns.(1) They are searching for a way to embrace the future without being forced to 'trust' their infrastructure.
For many securityand compliance teams, the challenge is what happens when data is actively processed. This “last mile” of exposure has become a barrier to moving workloads to the cloud, particularly in sectors such as the public sector, finance, healthcare, critical infrastructure, and AI, where even momentary access can pose material risk.
enclaive addresses this bottleneck by making confidential computing practical at scale. The company’s Multi Cloud Platform (eMCP) enables organizations to deploy applications in “secure enclaves” across any cloud provider, ensuring data remains protected at all times - without requiring changes to existing code, tools, or processes.
“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,” said Andreas Walbrodt, Co-Founder and CEO ofenclaive. “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.”
“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,” added Prof. Dr. Sebastian Gajek, Co-Founder and CTO of enclaive.
Unlike competitors that require significant development resources, enclaive’s operations-first approach enables rapid deployment with full control across all trust elements, vendor independence, and a modular architecture. The platform supports enterprise workloads, including Kubernetes clusters, virtual machines, and AI applications across multiple cloud environments.
“enclaive is the key to unlocking a truly free and private internet," said Simone Lavizzari, Principal at Join Capital. "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.”
“Confidential computing represents the solution to a 40-year-old security challenge - creating an unhackable black box where data remains encrypted even during processing,” said Ion Hauer, Principal at APEX Ventures. “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.”
The funding will support commercial scaling through expanded sales and marketing efforts, enhancement of the eMCP platform functionality, team growth focused on engineering and operations, and initial international expansion.
Founded in 2022,enclaive has built a strong foundation with its 20-person team distributed across Berlin and EU countries. The company has earned significant industry recognition, including the 2025 Prix Croissance at the InCyber Forum, 2024 TeleTrust Product of the Year, and the 2023 ITSA Up Award.
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Data sources: (1) Fortinet 2024 Cloud Security Report available at https://www.fortinet.com/blog/industry-trends/key-findings-cloud-security-report-2024
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About enclaive
enclaive is an international deep-tech company headquartered in Berlin, serving a strong and engaged community of ISVs, MSPs, and CSPs worldwide. Through its confidential computing approach, enclaive enables businesses to securely protect their sensitive data and applications. Its comprehensive Multi-Cloud Platform enables Zero Trust security by encrypting data in use and shielding applications from both infrastructure and solution providers, while complete control over confidential information remains solely with the enterprise.
About Join Capital
JOIN Capital is an early-stage, pan-European venture capital fund with offices in Berlin, London, and Milan. Since 2017, we’ve been backing founders whose technologies strengthen Europe’s resilience and strategic autonomy through an asymmetric technological advantage. Our focus is on deep tech across enterprise, industrial, space, and defense sectors — solutions that strengthen economies, secure critical infrastructure, and create enduring strategic advantage.
JOIN Capital currently invests from its second fund generation, managing over €150 million in assets. Our investors include NATO Innovation Fund (NIF), Isomer Capital, KfW Capital, and Cassa Depositi e Prestiti (CDP), leading funds-of-funds, and prominent family offices. To date, we’ve backed 31 portfolio companies and successfully realised five exits.
About APEX Ventures
APEX Ventures is a European venture capital firm focusing on early-stage deep tech companies. The team acts as hands-on investors with a mission to support the most talented startup teams in building global market leaders. In early 2023, APEX Ventures launched the Amadeus APEX Technology Fund together with Amadeus Capital Partners to invest in sectors that include next-gen computing, artificial intelligence, autonomous systems, space, medical technologies, energy, andother emerging deep tech areas. The fund invests in Seed and Series A ventures with innovative technology and engineering based on significant scientific advances. www.apex.ventures
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