A lot of very good books never leave the country they were written in. A crime novel can top the charts in Norway for a year and still be unknown in Germany.
Frekk picks proven titles from publishers' backlists, then translates, redesigns and relaunches them for new markets. Frekk pays for production, printing and marketing, so the original publisher gets a way abroad without putting money up front. The longer-term plan is to turn the strongest stories into IP that can live in other formats too.
Why we invested
Great stories shouldn't stop at borders. We liked that Frekk found a model publishers can say yes to on the first call.
- Sector
- Publishing and media
- Based in
- Oslo and Berlin
- Team
- Pira Thiru, Danny Bao Nguyen and Adil Christoffer Svendsen Laatyaoui
- Investors
- KAPS