Redpine, a Stockholm-based startup, has raised $1.3 million from a group of angel investors including Colin M. Evans (OpenAI), Feng Hong (Xiaomi), Anna Nordell Westling (Sana), Daniel Langkilde (Kognic), Gustav Lindqvist (Perplexity), and several Spotify alumni. The company develops a platform that provides licensed, domain-specific datasets for use in artificial intelligence systems. The funding will be directed toward expanding Redpine’s multi-modal data repository—covering text, images, audio, video, and code—and strengthening its collaborations with content owners and AI developers. The company’s focus is on supplying data in areas such as healthcare, law, finance, and robotics, where accuracy and compliance are critical.
Redpine was founded in 2024 by experienced tech builders Anders Hammarbäck (ex-McKinsey, Antler) and David Österdahl (ex-Spotify, iZettle), with Leonora Vesterbacka (PhD, CERN, AI R&D at KBLab) heading up data science.
“AI still operates with critical blind spots,” said Redpine’s CEO and co-founder, Anders Hammarbäck. “We reduce hallucinations and boost accuracy by giving AI systems access to the right data — real-time, high-quality, and licensed. That’s how we help AI not just respond, but reason, decide, and act in the real world.”
The company develops a platform that provides licensed, domain-specific and multi-modal datasets for artificial intelligence applications. Its work focuses on supplying data across areas such as healthcare, law, finance, robotics, and other sectors where accuracy and compliance are essential.
“They’re solving one of AI’s biggest challenges — access to high-quality data — and doing it globally. Redpine is a standout from the new wave of Nordic AI startups. I’m proud to be an early backer,” says Colin M. Evans, OpenAI.
Redpine provides a new data infrastructure for AI development. The platform gives companies building AI and autonomous agents access to high-quality, multi-modal and domain-specific datasets – from pre-training and fine-tuning to inference and real-time RAG pipelines. This includes text, images, video, audio, and code spanning across domains, including medical, legal, scientific, coding and more. The company already provides access to more than a hundred billion tokens of premium data, and its repository is expanding rapidly.
Redpine is tapping into the global AI training data segment, an emerging category within the trillion-dollar AI market, growing rapidly at 24.9% annually. Redpine licenses directly with copyright holders, proprietary dataset owners, and publishing houses. As the legal pressure on unauthorized AI training ramps up, including Anthropic’s recent $1.5B book copyright settlement and new EU disclosure requirements, Redpine’s compliance-first model offers an increasingly necessary alternative.
“For AI to reach its full potential, we need both the highest quality data available to train, develop, and fine-tune, as well as fair compensation paid to the creators and owners of such materials to ensure sustainability into the joint future. Redpine exists to provide both,” states Roy Kaufman, Managing Director, Business Development at Copyright Clearance Center.
A Nordic wave rising: Silicon Valhalla. Redpine is the latest in line of Nordic AI companies to scale fast globally, following the footsteps of companies like Lovable, Sana, Legora, and Tandem Health, which have come to be known as Silicon Valhalla. With deep tech expertise and a strong pedigree, these founders are punching above their weight on the global stage. Redpine’s ambition? To become the global leader in the foundational data infrastructure layer for AI models and agents – making AI smarter by grounding it in reality.
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