
Deal focus: Reap looks beyond Hong Kong

Having proved its business model and build up a customer base in Hong Kong, small business credit specialist Reap will use part of its USD 40m Series A round to pursue international expansion
When Fresco Capital became Reap’s first institutional investor in 2018, the Hong Kong-based financial technology start-up hardly had a product to its name. Due diligence focused on the problem Reap was...
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