helping you manage, helping you grow
Biruwa Advisors is a business and management consulting company focused on providing services to startup entrepreneurs, growing businesses, and organizations working to support entrepreneurship and private sector development. With the mission to enable pragmatic approaches to manage and grow business ventures through innovative and impactful solutions, it has built a distinct presence in the Nepali market by utilizing entrepreneurial experience, business expertise, and network to help entrepreneurs and managers make informed business decisions. Click here to learn more about it.
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helping you manage, helping you grow
helping you manage, helping you grow
About Biruwa Advisors?
Why Biruwa Advisors?
Biruwa Advisors believes that entrepreneurs can be the change agents that can solve problems that exist in Nepal. By helping entrepreneurs start and grow their business, Biruwa Advisors helps create and support change agents who can solve problems, create value and create opportunities within the country so that the country’s youth don’t have to migrate in search of opportunities abroad.
How Biruwa Advisors helps?
We help entrepreneurs by sharing lessons from our own entrepreneurial journey and help them refine their business model so that they can better execute their business. We continuously interact with entrepreneurs from different sectors and background to develop a good understanding of success and failure factors of business that we can pass to entrepreneurs we work with.
What does Biruwa Advisors do?
We brainstorm business ideas with entrepreneurs to help them access market opportunities and help them develop a business plan. We conduct business feasibility studies to evaluate whether the business ideas are financially viable. We support existing businesses conduct internal and external assessment to identify areas of improvement. Additionally, we facilitate investments for entrepreneurs seeking capital to start and grow their businesses.
How is Biruwa Advisors different?
Entrepreneur + Consultant
We are entrepreneurs ourselves. When we take on consulting assignments, we put ourselves in the entrepreneur’s shoes and try to fully understand their problems. We understand that there is not one-size-fits-all approach to business problems. We customize our services to provide an actionable solution that is tailored to your needs.
Knowledge + Experience = Expertise
Our Partners have a combined experience of over 40 years in business and consulting. Since Biruwa Advisors' inception in 2011, we have mentored over 500 entrepreneurs, provided consulting services to over 50 entrepreneurs and businesses from diverse industries and provided investment facilitation services to a dozen enterprises. We have extensive knowledge and expertise of the Nepali market that we bring to the table whenever we take on consulting assignments.
Network + Ecosystem
Since its inception, Biruwa Advisors has played a catalytic role in building a strong entrepreneurship ecosystem in Nepal and as a result built a vast network among stakeholders in the market. We openly share our contacts with entrepreneurs looking to start a new venture and managers looking for solutions to their business problems. We help you connect with the right contacts and resources to help you grow your business.
How does Biruwa Advisors help entrepreneurs?
Need guidance or mentoring?
Biruwa Advisors offers two free mentoring sessions for aspiring entrepreneurs and early-stage startups to help you refine your business plan and figure out steps to execute your business plan.
Need consulting for your business?
Biruwa Advisors' team has a depth of entrepreneurial and managerial experiences with which we provide solutions that help your business grow and adapt to changing business environment.
Need access to capital?
Biruwa Advisors helps refine your investment proposal and connects with avenues of financing and investment that can help you scale your business model.
Our Partners Team
Anup Tamang
Founding & Managing PartnerAnup has been working in the field of Risk Advisory and Assurance Services since 2006. He worked with two reputed Chartered Accountant firms in Bangalore till 2013.
Sanam Chitrakar
Founding PartnerSanam holds eighteen years of multidisciplinary entrepreneurship development, coaching, training and consulting experiences.
Abhinab Basnyat
Founding PartnerAbhinab has more than ten years of experience in consulting. He finished his Bachelors degree in Economics from Carleton College in Minnesota, USA. He graduated his MBA from MIT's Sloan School of Management.
Vidhan Rana
Founding PartnerVidhan has more than nine years of experience in strategic planning, communications and entrepreneurship. He actively supports various entrepreneurship related activities in the country and is an investor in four other businesses other than Biruwa.
Sagar Chapagain
Business AssociateSagar Chapagain, an Electrical Engineering graduate with a Master’s in Global Leadership and Management, represents Biruwa Advisors in private sector development projects, coordinating field activities, conducting research, and aspiring to become a large-scale agro-entrepreneur.
Megha Pande
Junior AssociateMegha Pande, a BBA graduate from KUSOM, is passionate about Nepal's development through entrepreneurship, with experience in development work, clean energy, and now contributes to Biruwa Advisors' consulting team by leading proposal and report execution.
Mohit Neupane
Junior AssociateMohit Neupane, a Finance graduate from KUSOM, is passionate about investment and finance, with experience in startup accounting, market research, and now supports Biruwa Advisors through feasibility studies, financial projections, and operational assessments.
Shambhavi Singh
Junior AssociateShambhavi, a BBA Finance graduate from KUSOM, is passionate about strengthening Nepal’s private sector through writing and research, and at Biruwa Advisors, she supports consulting, leads marketing efforts, and creates visibility resources for social enterprises.
Jamuna KC
Business AssistantJamuna, a Business Studies graduate focused on Finance and Marketing, manages administration and logistics at Biruwa Advisors, while supporting research for consulting projects and aspiring to launch a socially responsible woolen handicraft company.
Siris Pradhan
Business AssistantSiris Pradhan, a BBA student at Ace International Business School, supports Biruwa Advisors through content creation, report drafting, and analysis, while aspiring to gain business management skills and eventually run her own venture.
Ritishma Gurung
Business AssistantRitishma Gurung, a BBA graduate from KCM, leads project management and operations at Biruwa Advisors, with interests in gender lens investing, strategic consulting, and using sustainable solutions to help enterprises grow and support Nepal’s development.
Sukeerti Shrestha
Business AssistantSukeerti Shrestha, a BBA Finance student at KUSOM, supports report drafting, documentation, and the mentoring program at Biruwa Advisors, driven by her passion for learning and applying practical knowledge gained from prior experience at a social enterprise.
helping you manage, helping you grow
Biruwa Advisors Pvt. Ltd. was established as the consulting wing of Biruwa Ventures Pvt. Ltd., the first private company in Nepal to focus on promoting entrepreneurship. Our mission is to enable pragmatic approaches to grow and manage business ventures through innovative and impactful solutions. We bring our in-depth knowledge, business expertise and extensive network derived from our eight-years of institutional experience to help entrepreneurs and business managers make informed decisions.
Our Partners have a combined experience of over 45 years in business and consulting. Since Biruwa’s inception in 2011, we have mentored over 700 entrepreneurs, provided consulting services to over 100 business ventures from diverse sectors and industries.
Biruwa Advisors' Services
Market Research
We assist entrepreneurs to scan the business environment by designing, collecting and interpreting market data in order to assess opportunities and challenges existing in the market. This analysis will help businesses to identify ways to improve brand image, increase market share, test business feasibility, all contributing to building a strong marketing strategy.
Business Plan
We provide a comprehensive action plan for businesses by taking into account its core services/products, business strategy, marketing strategy, financial feasibility and external environment to meet the client’s vision for growth. We update the business plan periodically in line with business progress.
Financial Analysis
We perform comprehensive financial analysis from cost assessment to investment budgeting so that businesses can effectively manage their finances. We also support businesses in identifying and analyzing deviation in calculations by comparing various financial reports. Through this service, businesses can maintain a strong financial record thereby helping them to attract more investors and optimize profits.
Private Sector Development
Biruwa Advisors utilizes its private sector network and expertise to connect development organizations with the right private sector partners for achieving development goals. We also support development organizations to formulate programs, capacitate staff, provide business support services to beneficiaries and evaluate the programs’ effectiveness.
Operations Management
We assist businesses in streamlining their operations for effective and efficient management. We analyze the current situation of the business and identify ways to improve the operating procedure through redesigning and restructuring.
Investment Facilitation
We connect both investors and enterprises that are seeking investment. We scout the market for businesses that fit the investment profile of the investors by identifying their preferences. On the other hand, we also support businesses to make them investment ready by preparing an investment pitch and filling in the missing components that the business requires.
Legal Consulting
Biruwa Advisors' legal experts provide consultation, documentation, registration and liaison services related to legal and statutory compliance to minimize bureaucratic hassles for businesses. This will, in turn, enable the businesses to focus on their core functions.
Consulting assignments carried out by Biruwa Advisors
Bhairawa Hospitality Research- Market Research and Feasibility Analysis
Mr. Ajit Malla wanted to start a hospitality business in Bhairahawa in the ancestral property he owned. However, due to lack of experience in the particular industry, he was uncertain about the type, category, and size of businesses. He approached Biruwa Advisors to assist him in getting clarity and make these decisions. Biruwa Advisors worked in an advisory capacity to develop a comparative business report for multiple businesses that could be undertaken in the given location based on Market Research and Financial Analysis. The research comprised of preliminary site assessment, location trend, competitor analysis and feasibility of hospitality-based businesses in the area. Based on this research, Biruwa Advisors proposed multiple viable scenarios indicating the investment range, type of hospitality project, position in the market and target segment in the market. The client could decide on the business that he could start within his investment and risk appetite while considering the Market and Financial feasibility.
Euro Kids (Siddhartha Institute of Education)- Financial Analysis
Euro Kids Bhairahawa is an Indian franchise of pre-primary school operating in Nepal. The school’s branch in Bhairahawa was suffering from degrading financial health and wanted suggestions to overcome the situation. Biruwa Advisors conducted a comprehensive financial analysis based on the client’s past performance. Projected financial statements, break-even analysis, financial ratios were used to identify major expenses incurred and potential areas where the company could target higher efficiency and improve profitability. The client was able to focus on managing their expenses based on the value they were generating as well as efficiently manage their finances to achieve higher profitability.
Cunina Nepal- Organizational Assessment
Cunina is an NGO in Nepal which provides educational scholarships to underprivileged students in Sankhuwasabha and Kathmandu. As the scale of operations of Cunina was rapidly rising, the organization was facing issues related to the operations because of which there was a lot of fire-fighting and spontaneous decisions to be made. To address the organization’s issues, Biruwa Advisors conducted an organizational assessment of operations including reporting structure, reporting formats, and control mechanisms and reviewed the scope of departments to map communication gaps, ambiguous reporting lines & duplication of responsibilities in the first phase. After the collection of information and its analysis, Biruwa Advisors provided a broad way-forward, on the basis of which specific areas of intervention could be taken up in the next phase based on the organization’s priority. Through this assessment, the organization was able to bring the situation and the gaps to their priority list of intervention so that action plans could be formulated to address them.
Our Clients
Who has Biruwa Advisors worked with?
What do our clients say about our advisory services?
Our previous dealings with Biruwa Advisors have left us with a highly positive impression of their capabilities in Nepal and the Nepalese access to finance landscape. Biruwa Advisors acted as the country coordinator in Nepal for the Access to Finance study with Biruwa Advisors liaising with local parties in Nepal to ensure proper interface was being provided to various stakeholders that provided inputs for the study.
Yanese Chellapen
Pennam Partners
helping you understand your market, helping you capitalize on business opportunities
Why is market research necessary?
Without proper understanding of the market, entrepreneurs and managers are shooting arrows in the dark with their critical business decisions. To improve your product or service you need to understand the problem that your customer is facing and what your competitor is doing to cater to those problems. To continuously stay ahead your competition, you need to understand how your market is evolving. Without proper market research and the right marketing strategy, entrepreneurs and managers will lack the information to make these critical business decisions.
What does market research provide?
Biruwa Advisors’ Market Research service is external evaluation tool designed to help entrepreneurs scan their business environment by helping them gather information regarding market and assess opportunities to improve their brand image and increase market share. It is a process of generating insights of the market and consumer through a combination of primary and secondary research. The goal of this service is to help businesses build a marketing strategy based on actionable business intelligence.
What does Market Research cover?
Market Intelligence
- Target market research
- Industry overview
- Consumer needs assessment
- Competitor analysis
Opportunity Assessment
- Value chain assessment
- Market feasibility
- Value proposition development
- Key factors for success
Marketing Strategy
- Strategic roadmap
- Sales and marketing strategy
- Branding strategy
- Growth strategy
helping you develop a strategy, helping you set the course for your business
Why is Business Plan necessary?
While many idea stage startups and businesses efficiently run their core business, there often seems to be a gap in their overall business strategy. Businesses often tend to prepare a business plan solely for loan or investment purposes. However, a business plan is more than a loan requirement. A comprehensive and effective business plan ensures if the company strategy and processes align with its objectives and long term goals. It is a guiding document that should be periodically reviewed to make sure the company is on course of its sales targets and milestones.
What does Business Plan provide?
Biruwa Advisors uses various tools like the Business Model Canvas to help you develop your business plan. We gather external intelligence to perform competitor analysis and conduct financial forecasting to test the profitability of the business and help you prepare the financial documents. Biruwa Advisors helps you derive milestones for your business and guide you on activities to meet the milestones through a comprehensive action plan. We revisit your business plan periodically and help you improve your business plan as you evolve your business. We help you in creating a pitch document for your business plan so that you are well-equipped to approach investors for your business.
What does Business Plan cover?
- Business Model Generation
- Target Market & Competitors Analysis
- Financial Feasibility Analysis
- Milestones Setting
- Periodic Reviews
- Investment Proposal
- Pitch Document
helping you meet your legal compliances, helping you focus on your core business
Why is Legal Consulting necessary?
Whether you are an entrepreneur who is planning to begin a startup or already have an established business, there are many compliance requirements that all organizations need to meet. Entrepreneurs may not be aware about all the requirements or may not have the expertise to fulfill them. However, these requirements are mandated by the government and non-compliance of these requirements may lead to penalties or even closure of the business.
What does Legal Consulting provide?
Biruwa Advisors provides pre-registration consultation, business registration support, periodic updation and submission of records at government agencies like Office of the Company Registrar (OCR) and Department of Industry (DoI) and drafting legally binding agreements for entrepreneurs to secure their business dealings. We have legal experts to check for legal feasibility and compliance requirements for your business. Biruwa Advisors’ legal services help the entrepreneurs minimize hassles related to statutory compliances and focus on their core business operations.
What does Legal Consulting cover?
- Pre-registration Consultation
- Registration Support
- Legal Feasibility
- Legal Opinions
- Minutes Updation
- Agreements Drafting
- Annual Report
helping you understand your financial position, helping you make informed decisions
Why is financial analysis necessary?
Financial Analysis an essential tool for the financial stability of any entity. Financial Analysis helps companies plan and avoid most financial crises. A thorough financial plan helps companies make strategic decisions by assessing their current financial situation and layout financial targets for the future. This enables the entity to make adequate provisions to cater to any changes in funds requirement.
What does financial analysis provide?
Biruwa Advisors helps entities think through and create realistic and commitment based budget plans and targets in order to plan and manage the operations of the entity. We provide support in calculating and quantifying monetary effects of potential business decisions. We help entities compare their accounting reports with the annual budget and analyse any identified deviations.
What does Financial Analysis cover?
- Financial Budgeting
- Financial Decision Making
- Account Support
- Tax and other Statutory Compliance
- Reporting & Analysis
helping you manage your operations, helping you maintain a competitive edge
Why is operations management necessary?
In today’s dynamic business environment, change is inevitable with new competitors, products and services entering the market every now and then. To adapt to these recurring changes and maintain a competitive edge, businesses need an operations model that is flexible, efficient and system-driven. Operations Management services can help achieve this by standardizing and streamlining operations and building capacity throughout the process thereby improving the overall productivity of the business.
What does operations management provide?
Biruwa Advisors, as consultants, helps you transform your operations by taking a holistic view of the management through an independent perspective to identify the pain points, gaps, and impacts they are causing from growing your business. We carry out an organizational assessment to uncover the “as is” state of the business and set priority areas as well as recommend way-forward to help establish a “should be” state. Biruwa Advisors also helps you achieve the desired state through Human Resources and Operations Management services to build the overall capacity of the organization if you do not have an in-house capacity.
What does Operations Management cover?
- Organizational Assessment
- Streamlining Processes
- Organizational Restructuring
- Performance Management System
Operations Management Assignments Carried Out by Biruwa Advisors
Cunina Public Education Trust
Cunina Public Education Trust is an institution running two schools in the remote areas of Sankhuwasabha. The funds for the educational scholarship comes from Cunina Nepal, an NGO based in Kathmandu. Problems started arising in the operating structure and functional line of these entities as they were being run by the same management team. Biruwa Advisors intervened to overcome the operational problems of Cunina in three phases. The first phase involved a preliminary assessment of existing processes and areas to segregate the functions of these two entities, streamline operations and standardize the reporting structure of both the entities. Based on the findings of this assessment, Biruwa Advisors further supported Cunina to develop Job Descriptions of the roles and responsibilities of various human resource personnel in the second phase. The third phase was for providing technical assistance for recruiting the right individuals for the vacant positions created after the restructuring process of both Cunina Nepal and Cunina Public Education Trust.
Karmapa Arts (Images of Enlightenment)
Karmapa Arts is a Thangka painting producer based in Boudha. As the company’s volume of operations scaled up, they realized that the current operating structure and functioning processes were not robust enough. This led to the company facing difficulty to track the performance and efficiency of human resources resulting in the incurrence of higher costs for the company. Considering Karmapa’s need to standardize its operating procedures, functional lines, and business processes, Biruwa Advisors conducted a preliminary assessment of current processes in major areas of the organization. Based on the information collected and review of organizational documents, Biruwa Advisors recommended way-forwards to help Karmapa Arts better manage their operations. It was observed during the assessment that costs incurred were not properly recognized resulting in a low-profit margin for the organization. Biruwa Advisors also helped them devise a standard costing method to correctly measure their cost of production and avoid such issues in the future.
Digi Refrigeration
Digi Refrigeration has been trading in appliances and accessories in Nepal since 2000 AD. Due to centralized management, the increase in the volume of operations in recent days took a toll on the company. This resulted in the business facing operational problems and missing out on major market opportunities. The company realized the need to redevelop an organizational structure and redefine the roles of different functional areas to manage the operations more professionally and reduce the directors’ overall involvement in daily operations. Biruwa Advisors supported the company by identifying the functional areas which were creating a bottleneck in the operational capacity. As part of the assessment, business process flow diagrams were created to point out individual gaps, impacts, and recommendations in the organizational structure. This was used to draw an organogram with the secondary functional line and to provide clear job descriptions of roles and responsibilities for each functional department.
helping investors find the right investment opportunities, helping businesses become investment ready
Why is Investment Facilitation necessary?
For investors, finding the right investment opportunity in a market like Nepal is difficult. You will spend a lot of time and resources on scouting for opportunities that you could have spent evaluating deals. For entrepreneurs, finding the right investor who will not only investment in your business but help you grow it by adding value to your business is difficult. Biruwa Advisors helps bridge this gap by utilizing our expertise and network within the business community in Nepal to serve the interest of both the parties involved in the deal.
What does Investment Facilitation provide?
Investment facilitation is provided to both investors and enterprises seeking investment. It helps investors to create a customized investment profile by identifying their objectives, needs and risk tolerance level. We scout the market to find the businesses that are ready for investment. The service is also provided for businesses looking for investors helping them prepare an investment pitch and a plan that investors will look for. We also support the enterprises become investment ready by filling the gaps in their business model and operational processes.
What does Investment Facilitation cover?
Services for Investors
- Investment Scouting
- Business Diagnostics
- Due Diligence Audit
- Negotiation & Term Sheet
- Deal Closing
- Investment Monitoring
Services for Startups / Growth-stage Companies
- Mentoring
- Business Diagnostics
- Investment Planning
- Investor Scouting
- Business Valuation
- Negotiation & Deal Closing
Private Sector Development
What is Private Sector Development?
Private sector is an important vehicle to achieve development goals set by the government and development partners. Development interventions increasingly require the engagement of private sector actors as partners to capitalize their innovations to cater to their target groups’ needs. An active private sector not only creates employment, but can play a vital role in helping tackle development challenges of the developing countries like Nepal.
What is Private Sector Development?
Private sector is an important vehicle to achieve development goals set by the government and development partners. Development interventions increasingly require the engagement of private sector actors as partners to capitalize their innovations to cater to their target groups’ needs. An active private sector not only creates employment, but can play a vital role in helping tackle development challenges of the developing countries like Nepal.
What does Biruwa Advisors offer?
As development organizations are less equipped with networks and private sector orientation, Biruwa Advisors utilizes its network and expertise to engage the private sector to achieve Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). As a Business Development Service Provider, we support development organizations to formulate program strategies, connect with the right private sector partners, provide business support services to beneficiaries, conduct trainings, and evaluate programs’ effectiveness.
What does Biruwa Advisors offer?
As development organizations are less equipped with networks and private sector orientation, Biruwa Advisors utilizes its network and expertise to engage the private sector to achieve Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). As a Business Development Service Provider, we support development organizations to formulate program strategies, connect with the right private sector partners, provide business support services to beneficiaries, conduct trainings, and evaluate programs’ effectiveness.
What does Investment Facilitation cover?
Program Development Services
Biruwa Advisors supports development organizations to formulate private sector development programs as we understand both the parties’ needs and priorities. Biruwa Advisors conducts product specific local, districts, and provincial cluster assessment to formulate evidence-based private sector development programs.
Business Development Services
With its extensive business and management consulting track record, Biruwa Advisors supports rural and urban entrepreneurs through its comprehensive business support services. Our core services as a BDS provide involves business plan development, enhancing marketing outreach, management mainstreaming, and business network support.
Local Entrepreneurship Development
Biruwa Advisors conducts local, district, provincial, and cluster centric entrepreneurial ecosystem assessment to help elected leaders and development organizations to formulate situation-specific development interventions. We engage the private sector actors to play a strong role in economic development and poverty alleviation.
Value Chain Development
Biruwa Advisors supports value chain actors to access and enhance their competitiveness to increase outreach and impacts on smallholder-producers across various value chains and high value agriculture products. We have worked to support consolidators like cooperatives and traders to create greater impacts on producers.
Training & Capacity Building
Biruwa Advisors trains and builds capacity of project team and related stakeholders to align with the project objectives. These in-house and onsite trainings include private sector engagement, legal compliance, financial modeling, business plan development, mentoring, and wider business themes.
Project Monitoring, Evaluation & Documentation
Biruwa Advisors support development agencies and donors to monitor and judge the efficiency of their program activities. It involves developing tools and techniques to monitor activities, outputs and results, including developing systematic documentation to report to their stakeholders.
Women Entrepreneurship Development
Biruwa Advisors helps women entrepreneurs to enhance their business model, improve their management capacities, increase their market outreach and enhance their profitability. We also help them to generate internal and external business intelligence enabling them to cope with entrepreneurial challenges and become market-shock resistant.
Strengthening Business Member Organizations
Biruwa Advisors works as a strategic and technical partner for BMOs to develop, mainstream and continually support their activities to create greater impacts on their members and entrepreneurs. We provide capacity building trainings to project staff to help them serve their members effectively.
Enhancing Access to Finance
Biruwa Advisors supports enterprises to evaluate their market, internal management capacities and risks to increase their investment readiness. Through its existing network with banking and financial institutions and investors’ network, Biruwa Advisors provides investment facilitation support to the enterprises.
Consulting assignments carried out by Biruwa Advisors to support Private Sector Development in Nepal
Danish Embassy - DANIDA Business Partnership
Biruwa Advisors worked as a consultant for the Danish Embassy to identify companies in Nepal for the Danida Business Partnership. The objective of the program was to improve the competitiveness of Nepalese businesses and thereby generate economic growth and reduce poverty. The program sought committed partnerships between Nepalese and Danish companies realising a common commercial business interests. Biruwa Advisors utilized its vast business network and industry expertise to support the Danish Embassy in identifying and shortlisting potential Nepali businesses across six target industries. After receiving interests from over 200 businesses in Nepal, Biruwa shortlisted 43 Nepali businesses to host a matchmaking event with 12 Danish companies brought to Nepal by the Danish government. The event led to the formulation of three successful business partnerships.
PACT World - Women Economic Empowerment Support
Biruwa Advisors worked as technical partner for USAID-funded Sajhedari Bikas Project in six districts (Banke, Dang, Surkhet, Bardia, Kailali and Kanchanpur) to support and document growth oriented and well-performing women-led groups, or individually run enterprises, to enhance and expand their businesses. Biruwa Advisors conducted rapid assessment, consulted with entrepreneurs and project team members to develop selection criteria, document the findings and shortlist 12 enterprises. Biruwa Advisors supported these 12 growth-oriented enterprises with backward and forward linkages in the supply chain enhancing their capacity to operate their businesses effectively. The support also involved enhancing their access to finance through existing banking and financial channels. Biruwa Advisors team also trained and mentored the entrepreneurs to enhance their management capacities.
United Nations Capital Development Fund - UNNATI Access to Finance
Biruwa Advisors supported UNNATI-UNCDF to strengthen the capacity of 18 enterprises in four districts (Tehrathum, Dhankuta, Bhojpur and Sankhuwasabha) to develop bankable business plans for them to apply for loans from Banking and Financial Institutions (BFI). Biruwa Advisors provided mentorship and guidance to the eighteen agri-businesses value chain actors to innovate their business models and prepare a sound, sustainable and scalable business plan. It helped refine their existing business models, structure and organize their actions to increase market share and improve profitability. Biruwa Advisors also supported the enterprises to mainstream their management and provided guidance to UNNATI partner micro, small and medium sized enterprises (MSME’s) to raise debt from BFIs and trained them in various method of raising equity from the Nepali market.
evaluating your ideas, solving your business problems
We evaluate the feasibility of a business idea and suggest solutions to business problems faced by existing businesses. We assist in developing and improving the business model and connect entrepreneurs with experienced mentors so that the entrepreneur can avoid common business mistakes.
How can Biruwa Advisors' mentoring session help you?
Business Plan Evaluation
Biruwa Advisors serves as a coach who can give you guidance and pragmatic advice to help you overcome your business challenges. Whether you are looking to identify your target customers or your business is facing problems, our Brainstorm sessions can help you move your business forward.
Problem Identification
Biruwa Advisors Brainstorm sessions will help you discuss and find solutions to your business problems. Whether your business is operating at a loss or having difficulty in acquiring or retaining clients, the Brainstorm session can help you identify why your business is facing a problem and can help you plot a course of action to resolve your issues.
Business Feasibility
Brainstorm sessions will help you establish whether there is a market for the product or service you are offering and evaluates the financial feasibility of your business. For established businesses, the Brainstorm session can help you decide whether to move forward with your business or adapt your business to the changing market scenario.
Connect with Mentors
Biruwa Advisors connects you to industry experts both domestically and internationally. Whether you need to connect with someone with experience in your industry or you need to connect with experts outside Nepal, we open our network to you so that you can grow your business.
We lacked exposure. Biruwa Advisors acted as a platform and gave us the exposure that we needed by giving us some amazing networking opportunities that increased our exposure and that has resulted into increased sales. And the advice of building network with the organizations with similar businesses made us understand our business environment better.
Regan Prasain
Doko Industries Pvt. Ltd.
building unique synergies, creating impactful solutions
Since our inception, we have believed in collaborating with other independent partners to provide value-based services and initiatives. Over the years, we have joined hands with multiple individuals & organizations and created successful working relationships with partners who focus on quality and impact in their domain.
Some of our collaborative works
Wildlife Conservation Nepal
Wildlife Conservation Nepal is a not for profit organization established in 2002 with a vision to protect and conserve natural heritage and disseminate information on environment and wildlife issues. As part of WCN’s ongoing project, Biruwa Advisors carried out stakeholder consultation and assessment for suggesting business opportunities on NTFP farming in two districts; Chitwan and Nawalparasi. The consultation provided way forward for both the community members and the WCN team for commercially sustaining their activities. Biruwa Advisors and WCN are looking forward to working on more relevant projects in the future that can sustainably promote forestry and nature conservation through business and entrepreneurship.
TEAM Ventures
Team Ventures Pvt. Ltd. is a private equity and investment firm based in Kathmandu, Nepal, supported by a dynamic group of local business people with experience across multiple sectors. Biruwa Advisors carried out a legal research for Team Ventures during their initial stages of establishment in order to share findings related to possible entity models that could be used to carry out their stated objectives within the legal framework of Nepal. Biruwa Advisors also provided consultation for Team Venture’s home grown business idea. Biruwa Advisors has an understanding with TEAM Ventures to collaborate to provide investment to suitable startups and growth stage companies.
Restless Development
Restless Development is an international development agency working with young people in Nepal since 1991 to change their lives as well as the lives of the people in their communities by solving the challenges faced in the world. Realizing the importance and potential of youth in the sustainable development of Nepal, Restless Development and Biruwa Advisors have an understanding to collaborate for working on any programs that integrates youth and entrepreneurship. Building on this relationship, Biruwa Advisors carried out an assessment in regard to how Restless Development’s existing projects can be made more inclusive through incorporation of Private Sector Development. Similarly, an entrepreneurship workshop was also conducted among the employees of Restless Development to make them understand about Private Sector Engagement and its significance in today’s context.