Dartabase: tracking Nepali business and new ventures
Nobody can tell you how many startups Nepal has. Dartabase is my weekend AI project to fix that: a free, public record of Nepali companies and new ventures, in Nepal and started by Nepalis abroad.
I kept wanting to look up who raised what, who registered, who listed, who quietly shut down, and there was no single place to check. The two most cited databases of Nepali companies do not even agree on how many exist. They are off by two orders of magnitude, and neither of them explains how it decides what counts.
So the one rule I set was that nothing goes in without a source. Every entry shows you the publication, the date and the link it came from. If two sources give different numbers, it shows you both instead of picking one. If only the month is known, it says only the month.
Darta (दर्ता) means registration in Nepali, so the name is really just that plus database.
I put it together over a weekend using AI, mostly so I could understand this space properly myself. AI made it a few days of work instead of a few months. Working out what actually counts as a source took a lot longer than the code did.
It is still very much a work in progress and I would rather be upfront about that. There are 37 events on it right now and around 1,100 companies, but only 32 of those have any real depth to them. The rest are thin registry stubs. Shark Tank Nepal season one is the first proper backfill with many more planned. Will plan to update dataset periodically.
If you know of a raise, a registration, a listing or a closure that should be on there, or you spot something that is wrong, please tell me.
And if you follow this space, I would like to know what would actually make it useful to you.
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