Rena Labs, the startup aiming to enable the next generation of autonomous and verifiable AI solutions, has announced the successful closure of a $3.3 million pre-seed funding round led by Paper Ventures. The company attracted investment from a number of high-profile venture capital firms, among them Lightspeed Faction, Eterna Capital, Lyrik Ventures, Mapleblock Capital, Selini Capital, Keyrock, and others.

Rena Labs is building the first TEE abstraction middleware to supercharge verifiable on-chain AI use cases. Led by a core team that includes Princeton and MIT PhDs, the company empowers developers and retail users to deploy secure AI models with just a few clicks.