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enclaive

Category: AI Infrastructure

German deep-tech cybersecurity company providing a multi-cloud confidential computing platform that encrypts data in use across any cloud. enclaive was founded in 2022. The company is led by Andreas Walbrodt. Based in Berlin, Germany. Team size: 11-50. Total funding raised: €5.75M. Latest round: Seed. Key investors include Join Capital, Amadeus APEX Technology Fund, Auriga Cyber Ventures.

Founded
2022
Headquarters
Berlin, Germany
Team size
11-50
Total funding
€5.75M

Value proposition

Enables enterprises to run sensitive workloads and AI on any cloud fully encrypted (at rest, in transit, and in use) via hardware-enforced Trusted Execution Environments, with customer-held keys and zero code changes.

Products and solutions

eMCP (enclaive Multi-Cloud Platform), Buckypaper (Confidential VMs), Dyneemes (Confidential Kubernetes), Morphism (Confidential Serverless, coming soon), Vault & Nitride (Virtual HSM), Garnet (Confidential AI), managed encrypted databases (MongoDB, PostgreSQL, MariaDB, Redis), managed Nextcloud/GitLab apps.

Unique value

Only platform offering sovereign key management + hardware-enforced confidential compute + cross-cloud attestation as one control plane, deployable with no code changes across AWS/Azure/GCP/hybrid.

Target customer

Regulated enterprises (finance, healthcare, public sector, legal/tax) needing GDPR/NIS2/DORA-compliant cloud security and confidential AI workloads.

Industries served

Finance, Healthcare, Public Sector, Legal & Tax, Industrial, AI/ML Dev-Ops

Technology advantage

Hardware-based Trusted Execution Environment (TEE) confidential computing stack; vendor-agnostic multi-cloud attestation; founded by a cryptography professor (CTO) specializing in confidential computing.

How they differentiate

Multi-cloud, vendor-agnostic confidential computing platform (vs single-cloud native confidential computing offerings) with zero-code-change lift-and-shift and customer-held key sovereignty aligned to German/EU compliance (BSI C5, GDPR, NIS2).

Main competitors

Fortanix, Anjuna Security, Edgeless Systems

Key partnerships

AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, STACKIT (Schwarz Group), Open Telekom Cloud, OVHcloud, Intel, AMD, NVIDIA, ARM, Red Hat, SUSE

Notable customers

Lufthansa Industry Solutions (Dr. Lars Schwabe, CTO), Arbeiterwohlfahrt RTK (Michael Weigelt), Lilie Ihwas Attorneys (Dr. Saleh R. Ihwas)

Major milestones

2022: Founded in Germany, Feb 2026: Closed €4.1M Seed round to scale multi-cloud confidential computing platform, positioned as powering Germany's sovereign cloud infrastructure.

Market positioning

European (Germany-based) sovereign confidential computing leader for regulated industries, positioned against both hyperscaler-native confidential computing and other independent confidential computing vendors like Fortanix, Anjuna, and Edgeless Systems.

Geographic focus

Europe (Germany/EU), expanding internationally

About Andreas Walbrodt

Ex-Obrela Security Industries, Chief Commercial Officer (CCO); executive roles at IBM and TÜV Rheinland i-Sec GmbH. 30+ years in cloud innovation and data security.

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