Redpine, a Stockholm-based AI startup, has raised €6.8M in Seed funding to power AI companies and agents with access to licensed, high-quality and multimodal data, securely and at scale.
The round was led by NordicNinja, with participation from fellow Nordic firms Luminar Ventures and node.vc. Alongside the Seed funding, Redpine has received investment from strategic angels, including Peter Sarlin (co-founder SiloAI), Patrik Tran (co-founder Validio) and Anna Nordell Westling (co-founder Sana), and leaders from OpenAI, Perplexity, and Spotify.
Redpine CEO and co-founder Anders Hammarbäck said, “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.”
Founded in 2024 by Anders Hammarbäck and David Österdahl, Redpine aims to fix the AI information gap. It’s a data platform for agentic AI. Last year, the company announced €1.1 million in funding and the launch of its platform.
According to the company, only 1-2% of the world’s data is openly available for AI training. Redpine claims to unlock the rest to power AI development. It partners with content owners to unlock premium, non-public data from trusted sources to advance AI, compliantly.
It states that the platform empowers content owners across domains, including copyright holders and proprietary data providers, to offer controlled, compliant access to their data, unlocking value for both data owners and AI builders.
Redpine is a headless platform (API interface) for AI companies and agents to find and use premium data across domains, with a focus on scientific data. It integrates with AI platforms: agents use Redpine’s Model Context Protocol (MCP) to send queries.
Redpine evaluates the relevant context and delivers premium data to the AI agents, who pay for this data based on usage (number of tokens). The data is evaluated for quality in real time. The agents become more capable and compliant, as all data comes from trustworthy sources.
Explaining how the company is different from a data broker or web scraping service, it mentions, “We do not scrape. We partner. Redpine builds direct licensing relationships with content owners, creating mutual incentives for high-quality data to flow into AI systems. We also go a step further: we are building an access layer specifically for AI agents, via API, MCP, and CLI. That is not something a data broker does.”
Redpine CPTO and co-founder David Österdahl said, “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.”
The company plans to use this capital to accelerate its global expansion, speeding up development of the platform, including its proprietary retrieval and reranking technology led by founding data scientist Dr Leonora Vesterbacka, as well as working with leading AI labs.
The funding will also be used to scale its network of proprietary data partnerships, securing access to high-value, non-public datasets across key industries to strengthen the breadth and quality of data available through the platform.
The startup is also recruiting across engineering, data science, and go-to-market, strengthening a core team with experience from four Nordic tech unicorns (Spotify, Sana, Zettle, and Lunar) as well as McKinsey, CERN, and H&M. Marek Kiisa, General Partner of NordicNinja, will also join the board.
The startup is already working with leading international AI labs as well as US-based
biotechnology research firm, AsedaSciences.
Redpine’s team brings expertise from leading organisations in data science, machine learning, and AI product development. The company has raised a total of €9 million and is backed by investors from OpenAI, Spotify, Perplexity, Xiaomi, Sana, Greens Ventures, Aligned Ventures, NordicNinja, Luminar Ventures, and node.vc.
Read the orginal article: https://www.eu-startups.com/2026/04/stockholms-redpine-raises-e6-8-million-to-unlock-licensed-premium-data-for-ai-agents/
