Leonora Vesterbacka

Leonora Vesterbacka holds a PhD in Physics from ETH Zürich, with years of research experience of large scale data analysis at CERN as well as applied machine learning as a postdoctoral researcher at New York University. She has worked as a data scientist and her previous accomplishments include fine-tuning the best Swedish speech-to-text model. She is currently the Founding Data Scientist at Redpine, where she leads the scientific endeavour aimed at unlocking proprietary data for AI agents while ensuring fair compensation for data owners.

About Redpine

Redpine unlocks access to premium, non-public, licensed data to advance AI in the areas where accuracy is key, such as health, law and finance. Securely and at scale, with compensation going back to the data owners and rights holders.

Founded in Stockholm in 2024 and operating globally, Redpine has raised an $8M seed round in April 2026, led by NordicNinja VC with participation from Luminar Ventures and node.vc. Strategic angel investors include Peter Sarlin (co-founder, SiloAI), Patrik Tran (co-founder, Validio), Anna Nordell Westling (co-founder, Sana), and leaders from OpenAI, Perplexity, and Spotify. The company was founded by Anders Hammarbäck (CEO, ex-VC, McKinsey) and David Österdahl (CTPO, ex-Spotify, Zettle), with Leonora Vesterbacka (CERN, ETH, NYU) as the Founding Data Scientist.