Investment in the Seed Round of Almure, Developer of Confidential Computing Security Infrastructure for Enterprise AI Agents
Genesia Ventures has invested in the seed round of Almure Inc., a company developing proprietary Confidential Computing technology to provide a secure platform for enterprise AI Agents. The 200 million yen raised will accelerate product development and strengthen the team to address the significant bottleneck of security compliance in enterprise AI adoption.
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Genesia Ventures, Inc. (Representative Director: Soichi Tajima, Headquarters: Shibuya-ku, Tokyo) announces that it has invested from the Genesia Venture Fund 4 (hereinafter: GV-4) in the seed round of Almure Inc. (Representative Director and CEO: Takanori Momose, Headquarters: Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, hereinafter: Almure), which provides a platform to safely utilize enterprise confidential data for AI Agents using its proprietary Confidential Computing technology.
Investors in this round include Dual Bridge Capital and the NEX-T Tokai Innovation Fund (co-operated by Prime Partners and Tokai Tokyo Securities).
Background of the Investment
In enterprise system development, the complex operation known as "security check sheet compliance" has become a major bottleneck for AI utilization. This is the process of comprehensively checking countermeasures against cybersecurity risks and explaining their adequacy, which involves enormous costs. In addition, different security standards exist for each industry, such as finance, manufacturing, healthcare, and defense, and securing security engineers familiar with each domain is essential for compliance. While the evolution of AI has ushered in an era where system development itself can be done in a short time, introduction to enterprise companies still requires months to years, and the biggest barrier is "security compliance."
Almure aims to structurally eliminate this security compliance cost and is advancing the development of its proprietary "Confidential Computing" technology. This technology enables all advanced AI and Agent processing to be executed with security at the level of cryptographic key management. By replacing traditional "operational" security measures with design-level security ("Security by Design"), it promotes the safe AI utilization of enterprise confidential data.
Business Overview / Almure's "Confidential Computing" Technology
The Confidential Computing technology developed by Almure isolates and encrypts the execution environment at the hardware level, processing data in a state inaccessible even to cloud providers and system administrators. Also known as Confidential Computing / Trusted Execution Environment (TEE), it includes technologies such as Confidential VM / Hardware Enclave.
Historically, the development of computing technology has predominantly taken a bottom-up approach, building from a general-purpose foundational layer, but this has required a long time to address application requirements.
Almure adopts a "purpose-built" approach, designing top-down by working backwards from the highly practical needs of the specifications actually required by the security standards of each industry. This achieves a balance between "security at the level of cryptographic key management" and "versatility for advanced AI processing," which was difficult with conventional confidential computing technologies.
Use of Raised Funds and Future Outlook
The total of 200 million yen raised this time is planned to be allocated for the following purposes:
Strengthening research and development of confidential computing technology
Accelerating product development of security infrastructure for enterprise AI Agents
Hiring core members and strengthening the organizational structure
Careers page is here: https://almure.io/careers.html
Almure aims to rapidly advance the conversion to customer value and the maturation of the confidential computing market through a new technical approach of "confidential computing specialized for security compliance."
About the Investment
Takashi Sogabe, Investment Manager, Genesia Ventures, Inc.
Now that AI is evolving into "autonomous agents," the biggest wall preventing full-scale enterprise adoption is the absence of an environment where AI-generated code can be safely executed. Almure is taking on the fundamental challenge of confidentiality protection faced by large enterprises in defense, finance, manufacturing, etc., aiming to be the first in the world to achieve both "confidentiality x response speed" through its proprietary architecture using confidential computing technology. We feel great potential in the company's challenge to build an irreversible advantage in the layer of execution infrastructure for the AI agent era.
Company Overview
Almure
Company Name: Almure Inc.
Website: https://almure.io
Established: January 2026
Location: 8F MIEUX Shibuya Building, 5-3 Maruyamacho, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo
Representative: Takanori Momose, Representative Director and CEO
Business Overview: Construction of security infrastructure for enterprise AI Agents, research and development of confidential computing technology
Genesia Ventures
Company Name: Genesia Ventures, Inc.
Website: https://genesiaventures.com/
Established: August 2016
Headquarters: Inside Orbit Shibuya, 3F Shibuya Place, 1-10-5 Dogenzaka, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo
Offices:
Jakarta) WeWork Revenue Tower, Scbd, Jl Jend.Sudirman No.52-53, Senayan, Kebayoran Baru Jakarta City, JK, 12190, Indonesia
Ho Chi Minh) Genesia Orbit HCMC, 53 Nguyen Co Thach, An Loi Dong, Quan 2, Ho Chi Minh City
Bengaluru) Block L, Embassy Tech Village, Devarabisanahalli, Outer Ring Road, Bellandur, Bengaluru, KA 560103
Representative: Soichi Tajima, Representative Director / General Partner
Investors in this round include Dual Bridge Capital and the NEX-T Tokai Innovation Fund (co-operated by Prime Partners and Tokai Tokyo Securities).
Background of the Investment
In enterprise system development, the complex operation known as "security check sheet compliance" has become a major bottleneck for AI utilization. This is the process of comprehensively checking countermeasures against cybersecurity risks and explaining their adequacy, which involves enormous costs. In addition, different security standards exist for each industry, such as finance, manufacturing, healthcare, and defense, and securing security engineers familiar with each domain is essential for compliance. While the evolution of AI has ushered in an era where system development itself can be done in a short time, introduction to enterprise companies still requires months to years, and the biggest barrier is "security compliance."
Almure aims to structurally eliminate this security compliance cost and is advancing the development of its proprietary "Confidential Computing" technology. This technology enables all advanced AI and Agent processing to be executed with security at the level of cryptographic key management. By replacing traditional "operational" security measures with design-level security ("Security by Design"), it promotes the safe AI utilization of enterprise confidential data.
Business Overview / Almure's "Confidential Computing" Technology
The Confidential Computing technology developed by Almure isolates and encrypts the execution environment at the hardware level, processing data in a state inaccessible even to cloud providers and system administrators. Also known as Confidential Computing / Trusted Execution Environment (TEE), it includes technologies such as Confidential VM / Hardware Enclave.
Historically, the development of computing technology has predominantly taken a bottom-up approach, building from a general-purpose foundational layer, but this has required a long time to address application requirements.
Almure adopts a "purpose-built" approach, designing top-down by working backwards from the highly practical needs of the specifications actually required by the security standards of each industry. This achieves a balance between "security at the level of cryptographic key management" and "versatility for advanced AI processing," which was difficult with conventional confidential computing technologies.
Use of Raised Funds and Future Outlook
The total of 200 million yen raised this time is planned to be allocated for the following purposes:
Strengthening research and development of confidential computing technology
Accelerating product development of security infrastructure for enterprise AI Agents
Hiring core members and strengthening the organizational structure
Careers page is here: https://almure.io/careers.html
Almure aims to rapidly advance the conversion to customer value and the maturation of the confidential computing market through a new technical approach of "confidential computing specialized for security compliance."
About the Investment
Takashi Sogabe, Investment Manager, Genesia Ventures, Inc.
Now that AI is evolving into "autonomous agents," the biggest wall preventing full-scale enterprise adoption is the absence of an environment where AI-generated code can be safely executed. Almure is taking on the fundamental challenge of confidentiality protection faced by large enterprises in defense, finance, manufacturing, etc., aiming to be the first in the world to achieve both "confidentiality x response speed" through its proprietary architecture using confidential computing technology. We feel great potential in the company's challenge to build an irreversible advantage in the layer of execution infrastructure for the AI agent era.
Company Overview
Almure
Company Name: Almure Inc.
Website: https://almure.io
Established: January 2026
Location: 8F MIEUX Shibuya Building, 5-3 Maruyamacho, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo
Representative: Takanori Momose, Representative Director and CEO
Business Overview: Construction of security infrastructure for enterprise AI Agents, research and development of confidential computing technology
Genesia Ventures
Company Name: Genesia Ventures, Inc.
Website: https://genesiaventures.com/
Established: August 2016
Headquarters: Inside Orbit Shibuya, 3F Shibuya Place, 1-10-5 Dogenzaka, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo
Offices:
Jakarta) WeWork Revenue Tower, Scbd, Jl Jend.Sudirman No.52-53, Senayan, Kebayoran Baru Jakarta City, JK, 12190, Indonesia
Ho Chi Minh) Genesia Orbit HCMC, 53 Nguyen Co Thach, An Loi Dong, Quan 2, Ho Chi Minh City
Bengaluru) Block L, Embassy Tech Village, Devarabisanahalli, Outer Ring Road, Bellandur, Bengaluru, KA 560103
Representative: Soichi Tajima, Representative Director / General Partner