Join Capital and APEX co-lead €4.1M round into enclaive
Berlin-based cybersecurity startup enclaive has raised €4.1 million in a funding round co-led by venture firms Join Capital and APEX Ventures, backing its push to make confidential computing a mainstream security layer for cloud-native applications.
The fresh capital will be used to expand product development, strengthen engineering and go-to-market teams, and accelerate partnerships with major cloud providers. The round positions enclaive as one of Germany’s most closely watched players in the fast-growing confidential compute segment.
Building trust into cloud and AI workloads
Confidential computing is an emerging class of cloud security technology that protects data not only at rest and in transit, but also while it is being processed. By using secure enclaves and hardware-backed trusted execution environments, sensitive workloads can be isolated from the underlying infrastructure, hypervisors and even cloud operators.
enclaive develops infrastructure software that allows enterprises to deploy containerised workloads inside these secure enclaves with minimal changes to their existing stack. This is particularly relevant for industries handling regulated or highly sensitive information, such as financial services, healthcare and industrial IoT, as well as for companies training and running advanced AI models in public clouds.
Investors target rising demand for secure data collaboration
Backers Join Capital and APEX Ventures are betting that stricter data protection rules and the rapid adoption of AI will fuel demand for secure data collaboration across borders and organisations. With confidential computing, multiple parties can contribute and analyse sensitive datasets without exposing raw information, enabling new business models in areas such as federated learning and cross-company analytics.
By scaling its platform across major cloud ecosystems, enclaive aims to make confidential compute as accessible to developers as standard containers or virtual machines. The new funding gives the Berlin startup the resources to deepen its technology, pursue certifications, and position itself as a core security layer for the next generation of privacy-preserving cloud and AI applications.