Swedish firm Redpine, which builds an API-based data infrastructure platform for AI agents, has raised €6.8 million in seed funding led by NordicNinja VC, with participation from Luminar Ventures and node.vc.
- Founded in 2024 by Anders Hammarbäck and David Österdahl, the company develops a platform that gives AI agents access to licensed, high-quality, non-public datasets. Its system connects AI companies and autonomous agents to premium sources such as scientific research, legal documents, financial data, and other proprietary databases.
- Acting as a “grounding API,” Redpine allows agents to send queries via interfaces like MCP or CLI, with the platform retrieving, evaluating, and delivering relevant data in real time while ensuring compliance, licensing, and provenance tracking.
- The service runs on a pay-per-use model, charging per token or query, and shares revenue with data owners so publishers and rights holders can monetise their content securely.
- In practice, Redpine positions itself between data owners and AI builders, unlocking access to the vast majority of global data that is not publicly available online and making it usable for AI training and inference at scale.
Details of the deal
- The round also included participation from angel investors such as Peter Sarlin, Patrik Tran, and Anna Nordell Westling, along with leaders from OpenAI, Perplexity, and Spotify.
“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," explains Marek Kiisa, General Partner at NordicNinja.
- The fresh capital will support Redpine’s global expansion, accelerate platform development, and scale its network of premium data partners while strengthening its infrastructure for secure, high-quality AI data access.
