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About Rena Labs
Rena Labs is a technology company focused on Trusted Execution Environment (TEE) abstraction layers, founded in 2024 and headquartered in New York. Its core business is building a "private data intelligence layer" that allows institutions and individuals to securely exchange data, perform AI training and inference, without revealing the raw data. In simple terms, it uses TEE technology to provide a "black box" for sensitive data, where computation happens inside the box and only results are output, thus resolving the tension between data privacy and sharing.
Its core competency lies in "verifiable intelligence"—users not only get computation results but can also verify that the computation process is authentic and trustworthy, without accessing the underlying data. This narrative is particularly appealing in the context of crypto market transparency. For example, Rena Labs partnered with Cointelegraph Research to use TEE-protected data analytics to detect abnormal trading patterns on centralized and decentralized exchanges, aiming to provide verifiable market integrity tools.
Regarding market pain points, traditional data sharing often faces privacy leakage risks, while fully isolated data leads to "data silos." Rena Labs attempts to break this dilemma with a TEE abstraction layer, enabling compliant use of data under cryptographic protection.
In the past six months (March to September 2026), Rena Labs was selected for the inaugural cohort of the New Jersey AI Hub Accelerator, operated by Plug and Play in partnership with the New Jersey Economic Development Authority. At the launch event in March 2026, the company showcased its TEE Data Intelligence Layer and practical use cases.
No significant negative information about the company was found.
Rena Labs raised a $3.3M pre-seed round led by Paper Ventures in January 2025, marking early validation of its TEE abstraction middleware for verifiable on-chain AI.
Rena's Nuwa experiment processed over 100,000 verified TEE interactions in production, demonstrating that its TrustEE stack can handle real-world autonomous AI workloads while preserving privacy and auditability.
In the past six months, Rena Labs announced in May 2026 the completion of the Nuwa experiment, which processed over 100,000 verifiable interactions and launched 12 Twin Agents. Subsequently, Rena Labs delisted Nuwa from Initia's VIP program and shifted its strategic focus to a Private Data Marketplace, aiming to enable model training and inference on private data while ensuring data privacy. The company stated it will work with early B2B partners and build a data settlement chain as core infrastructure. Looking ahead, Rena Labs plans to expand into full-stack verifiable AI tools, focusing on AI-driven DeFi automation and other scenarios.
Co-founders:
- Conan Yu
- Education: B.S. in Economics & Computer Science, Swarthmore College; also attended UWC Atlantic College and University of Chicago (Political Philosophy, 4.0/4.0), and LaunchX Entrepreneurship Program.
- Experience: Founder of Rena Labs (since Apr 2024). Previously worked as Investment Banking Analyst (Fixed Income) at CICC (Jul 2021–May 2022), Project Intern at Mercer, Winter Intern at EY, and held roles at X2Y2 (BD Leader, Feb–Sep 2022) and Foresight Ventures (Researcher, May–Sep 2022).
- Languages: Native Mandarin, fluent English.
- Alex (also listed as Alex (Pf) G.)
- Co-founder of Rena Labs (since Apr 2024).
- Previously co-founded EZswap Protocol (Oct 2022–Mar 2024) and served as Board Member/Advisor until present. Led the team through pre-seed and seed funding rounds; successfully listed on Gate and Bitget.
- Background includes roles in Web3, NFT DEX infrastructure, and business development.
Note: No other core executives are confirmed from available sources.