Freepress raises €1M to make global news more accessible through AI

News service
Freepress has raised €1M in seed funding to advance its platform and prepare
for international expansion. The AI-powered service plans to enter global
markets in collaboration with local publishers, sharing up to half of its
revenue to help sustain quality journalism. Freepress curates verified news from multiple
global sources and presents it as concise, bite-sized stories in users’ own
languages, making international news easier to follow.

Founded in 2023 by Joel
Uussaari and Aleksi Kaistinen and launched in Finland in autumn 2025, its AI
acts as a virtual news editor, analysing hundreds of thousands of publicly
available and licensed articles from multiple countries and generating key information
on each topic in the user’s language.

Users can follow news events from different
countries in real time or have Freepress track them automatically. When the international media covers a chosen topic, the service sends a notification. According to Joel Uussaari, CEO of Freepress, AI enables a level of information organisation that allows the service to deliver exactly the news readers want, without requiring them to search for it:

“Through Freepress,
publishers can reach readers outside their own language and market area. For
publishers, this means reaching audiences far beyond their home market.”

Freepress provides its AI-generated news
content free of charge and complements it with quality journalism from
publishers in various countries. The company shares up to half of its revenue
from both consumer and business users with publishers and is in discussions
with several international media partners.

Freepress also plans to
expand to additional languages and markets and, alongside its consumer service,
is developing business tools for content use, media monitoring, and market
behaviour forecasting.