Company Registrar's page for the Nepali text of the Companies Act, 2063 including the amendment of 2081/12/17 BS (about March 2025); no English version on the page.

Portulans Institute's Network Readiness Index 2025 profile of Nepal, ranked 107 of 127 economies, with rankings by pillar and sub-pillar for technology, people, governance and impact.

IRD listing of the VAT Act, 2052, newest version amended by the Finance Act 2082 (posted 18 Poush 2082); an English 1996 (2052) text and schedules are listed too.

Department of Industry page on approval for foreign investment in a new industry, listing required documents, a Rs 20 million minimum and a refundable Rs 20,000 deposit.

Department of Industry page on registering an industry, with the foreign-investment route (approval, incorporation, registration within 35 days), documents and fee tiers; mostly Nepali.

Department of Industry's July 2024 English guide for foreign investors covering policies, approval procedures, promotion and investment trends, with online application portals.

Free open-sourced ESOP handbook covering option pool sizing, vesting, grant benchmarks and a review of 20 European and 4 non-European countries; Europe-focused and does not cover Nepal.

Nepali page explaining how to apply for a foreign worker's labour permit through the ILMIS online system, with the document list and a statement that permits issue within 30 days.

Nepal Law Commission page for the Electronic Transactions Act, 2063 (2008); the title is in English but the Act text on the page is in Nepali.

World Bank Microdata Library record for the Nepal sample of the Global Findex 2025 survey, collected May to December 2024, free to cite and use under its public-distribution terms.

WIPO Lex entry for Nepal's patent, design and trademark law; the English PDF is the 2006 version, the Nepali text is newer (amended to Feb 2016).

IRD listing of the Income Tax Act, 2058, newest version amended by the Finance Act 2082 (posted 18 Poush 2082); older versions and an English 2002 (2058) text are also listed.

Nepali page listing 17 post-incorporation duties under the Companies Act: PAN, business approval, share allotment, AGMs, filings to OCR, accounts and auditor appointment.

ITU's ICT Development Index 2026 with PDF report and Excel dataset covering 159 economies; Kathmandu Post (2 July 2026) reports Nepal is ranked again with a score of 68.1.

DataReportal's Digital 2026 Nepal report, published 8 November 2025, with 16.6 million internet users, 32.4 million mobile connections and 14.8 million social media identities as of October 2025.

Nepal Rastra Bank's 20-page English guidelines for a fintech regulatory sandbox: definitions, eligibility, application and testing phases; published by the Payment Systems Department on 18 June 2026.

One-page NRB Payment Systems Department list of licensed PSOs and PSPs in English, current to 2083/03/32 BS (16 July 2026).

WIPO Lex entry with the English text of Nepal's Copyright Act, 2059 (2002), as amended up to 24 November 2006; later amendments are not in this text.

Nepali-language page of the Industrial Property Section listing document checklists to file or renew patents, designs and trademarks, for domestic and foreign applicants.

English translation of Nepal's Privacy Act (Act 14 of 2075, authenticated 18 Sep 2018) on privacy of person, home and documents and handling of personal data, with a Nepali PDF alongside.

Not-for-profit data and statistics portal that describes itself as Nepal's first publicly accessible portal, with documents and time-series records from 1950 onward.

Kathmandu Post report (13 March 2025) on the first amendment to the Industrial Enterprise Regulation: businesses registered over 10 years are not startups, status is lost above Rs150 million annual transactions, startups receive a Startup Business Certificate, and a startup protection centre is to be set up.

Job portal for Nepal with job listings, blog, trainings and events pages and employer services.

Law-firm guide covering governing law and authority for private equity and venture capital in Nepal, fund-manager and fund registration, annual compliance, and investment through foreign funds and fund managers.

Kathmandu Post report (30 December 2024) on the government subsidised startup loan scheme run by the Industrial Enterprise Development Institute: loans up to Rs2.5 million at 3 percent annual interest, 5,158 applications received, and Rs1 billion allocated for the fiscal year.

Official site of Nepal's central bank. Hosts monetary policy documents, bylaws and directives, economic and financial publications, interest and forex rate data, and payment-system and financial-inclusion material.

Site for the Nepal Startup Summit 2026: a one-day orientation and workshop programme in each of the seven provinces from July 2026 to January 2027 for youth, founders, SMEs, investors, banks and policymakers.

Nepal job portal listing vacancies and an AI-assisted resume search/ATS for employers.

Open Knowledge Nepal's open-data portal hosting free public datasets for Nepal for researchers, journalists, developers and policymakers.

Nepal job search platform with categories including IT jobs and NGO/INGO jobs.

Official site of Nepal's National Statistics Office under the Office of the Prime Minister and Council of Ministers, the national statistical agency's publication and data hub (bilingual).

NIPoRe article on funding routes for Nepali startups, covering bootstrapping, friends and family, and angel and venture capital investors.

Law-firm publication discussing policy guidelines, tax incentives and legal framework for startups in Nepal, noting the challenge of the absence of a comprehensive definition of 'startup' in existing laws.

UN OCHA Centre for Humanitarian Data's Nepal page listing hundreds of humanitarian and crisis-response datasets from dozens of organisations.

World Bank's country data page for Nepal with development indicators, including internet-user share and other series.

Official site of Nepal's Office of the Company Registrar. Its home page links to company registration and related services and the CAMIS online system, and its news section reports that a PAN is created automatically once company registration completes through CAMIS.

Unofficial English translation of Nepal Rastra Bank's Foreign Investment and Foreign Loan Management Bylaw, 2021 (including third amendment), issued by NRB's Foreign Exchange Management Department. Covers approval and recording of foreign-currency inflows for foreign investment, repatriation of investment and earnings, and foreign loans.

Official site of Nepal's Department of Industry. Its stated remit includes foreign investment and technology transfer matters and industrial property protection, and it publishes notices and laws such as the Industrial Enterprises Act, 2076.

Official site of the Office of the Board of Investment, Government of Nepal (International Convention Centre premises, New Baneshwor, Kathmandu), with Nepali and English language options.

Law-firm explainer (published 9 June 2023) on the Startup Enterprise Fund Procedure, 2079, approved 10 Falgun 2079, which governs concessional loans to startup enterprises, including how the government defines a startup enterprise.

NSO's Central Data Catalog where users can browse, search and download study metadata and data (microdata) from Nepal's national surveys and censuses.

UNEP Law and Environment Assistance Platform record for Nepal's Industrial Enterprises Act, 2076 (2020), with abstract: industries must be registered under the Act (Sec. 3) and industries listed in Schedule-1 need prior permission from the Board.

ADB Law and Policy Reform Program entry for Nepal's Foreign Investment and Technology Transfer Act, 2019 (dated 27 March 2019), with English translation downloads. The summary notes the Act lists restricted industries, permits foreign investment in others, and allows forms including establishing a venture capital fund.

Securities Board of Nepal's list of regulations (Nepali), including the Securities Issue and Trading Regulations for Small and Medium Organised Institutions, 2081 and the Securities Registration and Issue Regulation, 2073 (seventh amendment).

Free online course on how to start a startup, taught by YC partners and industry leaders; about 7 weeks at 1-2 hours per week.

Official site of Nepal's Inland Revenue Department. Offers a taxpayer portal link, PAN search, tax clearance certificate verification, a tax calculator, and tax laws, directives and forms (income tax, VAT, excise), in Nepali and English.

English text of Nepal's Companies Act, 2063 (2006), authenticated 3 November 2006, hosted in the ICNL (International Center for Not-for-Profit Law) library, with the Act Amending Some Nepal Acts, 2064 noted.

YC library guide on why, when and how to raise seed capital.

TEAM Ventures article explaining private equity versus venture capital and tracing the groundwork for PE/VC investing in Nepal over the past decade, with a roundup of players.

Paul Graham's September 2013 essay on how startups raise money, including typical trajectory of rounds.

A free interactive generator, built by the law firm Cooley, that produces a customised Y Combinator SAFE for a US, UK or Singaporean company in a few minutes.

David Skok's widely cited primer on the metrics that actually predict a subscription business's health — LTV, CAC, churn, and the cash-flow trough that comes with scaling one.

Paul Graham's essay on the one question that decides whether a startup needs to raise again: will current revenue growth reach profitability before the cash on hand runs out?