Stockholm-based Redpine has secured €6.8 million in seed funding to tackle one of AI’s most persistent bottlenecks: access to high-quality, non-public data. The round was led by NordicNinja, with participation from node.vc and Luminar Ventures, alongside a slate of strategic angels spanning the AI and Nordic tech ecosystem including Peter Sarlin (co-founder AMD Silo AI), Patrik Liu Tran (co-founder Validio) and Anna Nordell Westling (co-founder Sana), Colin M Evans from OpenAI, Gustav Lindqvist at Perplexity, and Spotify angels including Dan McCormick and Greens Ventures, Eric Carlson Rydman at Aligned Ventures. The company is building a headless, API-first platform that enables AI agents to query and pay for premium, licensed datasets in real time—moving beyond the limitations of scraped internet data. Redpine plans to deploy the fresh capital toward scaling its proprietary data partnerships across industries, accelerating development of its retrieval and reranking technology, and expanding its engineering and go-to-market teams.
Founded in 2024 by Anders Hammarbäck and David Österdahl, Redpine fixes the AI information gap: only 1-2% of the world’s data is openly available for AI training – Redpine unlocks the rest to power AI development. Redpine addresses the status quo by partnering with content owners to unlock premium, non-public data from trusted sources to advance AI compliantly. The startup is already working with leading international AI labs as well as US-based biotechnology research firm, AsedaSciences.
Redpine CEO and co-founder Anders Hammarbäck: “Redpine is building the infrastructure to enable the token-based agent economy to grow sustainably for all stakeholders. The opportunities in this space are endless and we see applications across clinical guidelines, case law, physical research, financial markets data, and quality human-created news.”
Redpine CPTO and co-founder David Österdahl: “We are building a scientific solution that addresses initial challenges and creates a solid access model for agentic data. As we saw with music, a piracy-based scraping economy is only transient – until a solid solution appears. Redpine is that solution.”
Former VC partner Anders saw that most AI startups and scaleups used the same data sources (i.e. scraped internet data) – with no moat, insufficient accuracy, nor compensation to rights holders. David (part of the early team at Spotify) built the technical platform which transitioned the music industry from declining sales and outright piracy to a smart streaming concept – identifying clear pattern recognition between the two spaces.
NordicNinja General Partner Marek Kiisa: “Agentic AI is only as good as the data it’s trained on. Today, most of the world’s knowledge is still inaccessible to AI. Combined with an AI-native team that has a world-class track record of execution, this makes Redpine a foundational company for the agentic AI era.”
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