SecurityPal
In an August 2025 interview, Pukar Hamal described a $21 million Series A raised in 2021, led by Craft Ventures. The coverage date and the date of the financing are different.
Read the TechCrunch interview ↗A guide to Nepal’s startup ecosystem.
Silicon Peaks connects the companies, founders, talent and capital associated with Nepal’s technology ecosystem. This guide is a starting point for exploring the community and the sources behind its stories.
What is Silicon Peaks?
“Silicon Peaks” is an open-source name for the technology ecosystem emerging in Nepal’s Himalayan cities, starting with Kathmandu. Pukar Hamal, founder and CEO of SecurityPal, coined the name. The name is dedicated to the public domain under CC0, so anyone can use it.
Building from Nepal, working across borders
The company directory brings together businesses operating in Nepal and companies founded by Nepalis elsewhere. Its scope is broader than startups alone: established technology teams, service businesses and publicly listed companies are also represented.
A July 2025 VentureBeat feature profiles SecurityPal’s Kathmandu operation and its combination of AI and human expertise in enterprise security reviews. It is one concrete example of a technology business connecting a Nepal-based team with global customers.
Sourced examples
Company funding stories
These examples come from published interviews and company announcements. They are not an estimate of total funding in Nepal.
Meet the Silicon Peaks community
Explore the universities represented in the ecosystem, the investor directory and the press archive. The homepage also preserves the community’s events and meetups section and Nepali diaspora overview.
The original essays are community perspectives. Economic and flight-reach figures on the homepage remain labelled as community snapshots; this guide does not present them as independently verified statistics.
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