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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Official website: https://www.enclaive.io