Helsinki-based information service Freepress has raised €1 million in seed funding to additional develop its AI-powered platform and put together for worldwide growth. As a part of its progress technique, the corporate plans to enter world markets along with native publishers and can share as much as half of its income with them to help high quality journalism.
Based in 2023, Freepress operates with an AI-driven digital information editor that analyses tons of of hundreds of publicly out there and licensed articles from totally different nations. Based mostly on this materials, the app writes key data within the person’s personal language and permits real-time monitoring of worldwide information occasions. Customers may also observe matters mechanically and obtain alerts when main media retailers publish updates on areas they care about.
“Freepress provides its customers entry to a information feed they might by no means in any other case see. It opens up the world in a number of languages from across the globe. The applying makes world information accessible in individuals’s personal language at a scale by no means seen earlier than. Freepress is the information media of the AI period – able to unprecedented scalability,” stated Mikael Pentikäinen, editor-in-chief, Freepress’s editorial advisor and board member.
Freepress positions publishers as key companions in its worldwide rollout. Whereas its AI-written information updates can be found freed from cost, the platform can even embody high-quality journalistic content material from media organisations throughout totally different nations. Freepress pays publishers as much as half of the income generated from each client and enterprise customers, and is at the moment in talks with a number of worldwide retailers. Reuters’ worldwide information is about to be out there on the service from January 2026.
“AI permits data organisation that lets Freepress ship precisely the information readers need – with out them having to seek for something. By means of Freepress, publishers can attain readers exterior their very own language and market space. For publishers, this implies reaching audiences far past their residence market,” stated Freepress CEO Joel Uussaari.
The service launched in Finland in autumn 2025 and shortly reached prime positions in App Retailer information classes. The corporate plans to broaden into new languages and markets, and can be creating enterprise instruments for content material, media monitoring, and forecasting market behaviour.
Freepress was based by Joel Uussaari, a well known determine in actual property, and Aleksi Kaistinen, a veteran software program skilled. Its investor group consists of skilled Finnish traders anchored by Kustaa Poutiainen’s Stephen Industries Inc. Advisors embody know-how knowledgeable and startup mentor Erkki Heilakka, journalism digitalisation pioneer and former govt editor-in-chief Jussi Tuulensuu, former Finnish Information Company and Helsingin Sanomat editor-in-chief and present CEO of Finnish Entrepreneurs Mikael Pentikäinen, and Dottir Regulation associate Jaakko Lindgren, a specialist in copyright and AI regulation.
