🇸🇪 Redpine to solve AI’s biggest bottleneck – launches with investors from OpenAI, Xiaomi, Perplexity, Spotify

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STOCKHOLM, September 23, 2025 — After a year in stealth, Stockholm-based company Redpine announces its official launch: a global platform designed to give AI builders and agents what they’re still missing: high-quality, real-world, licensed data. Redpine is addressing the biggest bottleneck in artificial intelligence: the lack of trustworthy, domain-specific data in areas where there is no room for hallucinations such as healthcare, law, finance, and robotics.

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 has secured $1.3 million in funding from prominent angel investors and established partnerships with leading foundational AI companies and content owners worldwide. Investors, include Colin M. Evans (OpenAI), Feng Hong (Co-founder, Xiaomi), Anna Nordell Westling (Co-founder, Sana), Daniel Langkilde (Founder, Kognic; ex-Recorded Future), Gustav Lindqvist (Perplexity) along with a network of Spotify alumni (Greens).

“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.” – 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.” – 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.

    About Redpine

    Redpine powers AI builders and autonomous agents with access to licensed, high-quality, multi-modal data—securely and at scale. The platform empowers content owners across domains, including copyright holders and proprietary data providers, to offer controlled and compliant access to their data, unlocking value for both data owners and AI builders. Founded in 2024 and based in Stockholm, Redpine is backed by investors from OpenAI, Spotify, Perplexity, Xiaomi, Sana, and more. www.redpine.ai

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    Originally published on 23 September by Redpine.

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