Rena Labs Raises $3.3 Million in Pre-Seed Funding

The verifiable artificial intelligence firm Rena Labs raised $3.3 million in pre-seed funding, bringing its total funding to date to $3.3 million.

Paper Ventures led the funding round, with additional support from various investors, including Lightspeed Faction, Eterna Capital, Lyrik Ventures, Mapleblock Capital, Selini Capital, and Keyrock, according to a release shared with The Block.

Rena Labs plans to use the funds to expand its team with developers and industry experts and to enhance its abstraction middleware, Trusted Execution Environment (TEE). This aims to establish on-chain infrastructure for verifiable AI use cases.

> “In today’s world, coordination is ubiquitous — from human-AI interactions to agent-to-agent communications and data-model relationships,” said Rena Labs co-founder Conan Yu in an email to The Block. “As AI increasingly permeates our daily lives, preserving individual sovereignty in the digital realm becomes crucial. Rena addresses this challenge by championing TEE technology, making intelligent systems trustless and verifiable by default and ensuring secure coordination without compromising user autonomy.”