Redpine secured €6.8 million in fresh funding to expand internationally and grow its network of exclusive data partnerships, bringing the total raise to €9 million. The round was led by NordicNinja, with backing from Luminar Ventures and node.vc.
The startup has also attracted support from several well-known technology founders and operators. These include Peter Sarlin, Patrik Tran, and Anna Nordell Westling, as well as leaders from OpenAI, Perplexity, and Spotify.
Founded in 2024 by Anders Hammarbäck and David Österdahl, Redpine identified the structural problem: most AI startups were training on the same scraped internet data, creating no differentiation and generating no compensation for the rights holders whose work they were using.
“As we saw with music, a piracy-based scraping economy is only transient until a solid solution appears. The analogy is precise: Spotify didn’t defeat piracy by making it illegal — it defeated it by making licensed access easier and better than the alternative,” founders share with Tech Funding News.
The platform operates as a headless API layer that allows AI agents to query, retrieve and pay for premium datasets in real time, on a token-based usage model. Redpine evaluates data quality in real time, ensuring agents receive current, trustworthy sources rather than outdated or unreliable material.
The focus is on mission-critical domains, such as healthcare, legal, financial markets, scientific research and news, where inaccurate data doesn’t just produce weak outputs but creates compounding errors across multi-step agentic workflows.
Redpine’s main competitors include Scale AI, Appen, and Defined.ai, but while those players are annotation-first services built around human labelling workflows, Redpine is an API-native, agent-first platform that delivers licensed data in real time on a token-based model.
The funding will go toward international expansion, hiring in engineering and data science, and scaling the network of proprietary data partnerships across healthcare, finance, legal, and scientific research. Currently, the team comprises six nationalities, with half of its members being female.
Over the next three to five years, Redpine’s stated goal is to become the category leader in AI data globally, establishing a new standard for how data is accessed, valued and monetised in an economy increasingly powered by autonomous agents.