Free weekly Substack summarising Nepal's economic, political and social news, useful background for founders and investors; not startup-specific. Latest issue seen 16 Oct 2026.

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.

Indian Embassy page for IN-SPAN, which runs cohorts for Nepali startups; lists the first cohort's closing (Jan 2026) and the second cohort's announcement and application link (May-Jun 2026).

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.

TU's incubator in Kirtipur with pre-incubation, incubation, mentoring and co-working; has an online application form and posts entrepreneurship programme notices in Nepali and English.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Mauritius-regulated impact fund manager focused on Nepal in healthcare, technology and renewables, with USD 108.56M under management; page lists portfolio and links to investment criteria and contact.

Technology Khabar report on the launch of GROWTHX Everest, an accelerator for high-potential tech startups and SMEs in Nepal created by CNI, Team Ventures, CNIYEF and Startup Reseau India.

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.

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.

Asian Development Bank's Nepal country page with information on ADB assistance, economic data and analysis, resident mission contacts, news and publications.

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.

Nepal tech media outlet covering news, gadgets, startups, apps and events; describes itself as Nepal's leading digital tech media company.

Nepali-language tech and startup media platform from Nepal, with an English toggle.

Official site of Nepal's Industrial Enterprise Development Institute (Government of Nepal), covering trainings, business incubation centre orientation programmes, news, notices and downloads for industrial entrepreneurship development.

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

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).

Kathmandu-based alternative investment firm that invests in private and public companies via TEAM Equities, TEAM Advisors and TEAM Real Estate, and is a partner in the GrowthXEverest accelerator.

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.

Nepal-based impact investor in small and medium enterprises; its site reports 16 investments across six sectors, 5 exits and a Fund II in preparation (as of July 2026).

Nepal-based private equity and venture capital fund manager, founded in 2019, managing funds including the Nepal Infrastructures Investment Fund and the Nepal Impact Growth Equity Fund (NIGEF-1).

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.

Nepal innovation and entrepreneurship organisation (a dividend-not-distributing company under the Companies Act 2063) running programmes such as National Idea Hunt, College Idea Hunt, Pratibha Dabali and Prabhu Idea Plus.

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.

Tech news site from Nepal covering telecom, apps, startups and gadgets, in Nepali and English.

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.

Business magazine with business news, entrepreneur and leader profiles and policy analysis.

English-language daily's business section.

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?