Best FinTech Companies in Nepal
The 33 best FinTech companies in Nepal in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals.
- Statista
Our analysis of 1,006 FinTech companies
$195.5b in tracked funding; 96% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2025.
Ranked: Best FinTech companies in Nepal
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Stage | Founded | Founder | App-install YoY | Tech stack | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Banqsys Core banking system | — | Unfunded | 2017 | Binod Nirvan Founder & CEO | — | — | — |
| 2 | City Wallet Wallet-enabled cross-border payment solution for consumers | — | Unfunded | — | Binay Regmi CEO | +23% | Node.jsBootstrapNginx+11 | — |
| 3 | connectIPS Open banking API solutions | — | Unfunded | 2017 | Neelesh Man Singh Pradhan CEO | +23% | JoomlaPHPYouTube+9 | — |
| 4 | Danfe Books Online HRM and employee payroll accounting solutions | — | Unfunded | 2016 | Shekhar Sharma Founder & CEO | — | — | — |
| 5 | Esewa Money Transfer Provider of platform for international money transfer and domestic remittance | — | Unfunded | 2019 | Ajesh Koirala CEO | — | PHPLaravelBootstrap+24 | — |
| 6 | fonepay Operator of a payment network providing digital payment and financial services | — | Unfunded | 2004 | Diwas Sapkota CEO | +31% | PHPLaravelLivewire+25 | — |
| 7 | Helpbegin Crowdfunding platform for charitable projects. | — | Unfunded | 2012 | Ujjwal Khanal Founder | — | — | — |
| 8 | iCash Cross-border payment solution for businesses and individuals | — | Unfunded | — | CA Padam Bhattarai CEO | +23% | — | — |
Top 3 FinTech companies in Nepal
#1
Funding Raised · Kathmandu, Bagmati Province · founded 2023—raised▾
Web3 social community platform where users can create content and earn tokens
#2
Seed · Lalitpur, Bagmati Province · founded 2016—raised▾
Digital wallet and gateway solution
#3
Series B · Kathmandu, Bagmati Province · founded 2004 · 700 employees—raised▾
Operator of a digital financial services holding company intended to connect people to digital financial services across Nepal. The company offers an ecosystem of digital products and services including fintech, digital wallets, payments, health tech, Esurance, big data and offshoring solutions, thereby facilitating Nepali consumers' access to financial services and enabling their inclusion in the formal digital economy, in simple, affordable and secure ways.
Funding & investor landscape
Notable founders
How research on Fintech is moving in Nepal
A read on the academic research around Fintech — which themes are gaining ground, the institutions and researchers driving them, and how the tone is shifting. Based on 24 Nepal-affiliated papers.
- Tribhuvan University7
- Pokhara University6
- Institute of Engineering5
- Nepal Development Research Institute2
- Chitwan Medical College2
- Context (archaeology)2
- Anomaly detection2
- Order (exchange)2
- Isolation (microbiology)2
- Financial fraud2
- Financial inclusion5
- Financial services4
- Structural equation modeling3
- Financial literacy3
- Payment2
- Government (linguistics)2
- Financial inclusion2
- Financial services2
- Digital economy1
- Payment1
Where fintech is researched across Nepal
Location clusters by institution affiliation — each city's volume, stance tone, and a quick read on its hot topic, what's advancing, the opening opportunity, and the main concern.
Common questions
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