Perle Labs CEO Ahmed Rashad on Why AI Needs Verifiable Data Infrastructure

AI agents dominated ETHDenver 2026, from autonomous finance to on-chain robotics. But as enthusiasm around “agentic economies” builds, a harder question is emerging: can institutions prove what their AI systems were trained on? Among the startups targeting that problem is Perle Labs, which argues that AI systems require a verifiable chain of custody for their training data, particularly in regulated and high-risk environments. With a focus on building an auditable, credentialed data infrastructure for institutions, Perle has raised $17. 5 million to date, with its latest funding round led by Framework Ventures source: https://beincrypto.com/perle-labs-ai-sovereign-data-integrity/