Biswas Dhakal

Biswas Dhakal (Nepali: बिस्वास ढकाल, born 14 December 1981) is a Nepalese entrepreneur who founded F1Soft International Pvt. Ltd. His other endeavors include eSewa, CashOnAd, Logica Beans and Shiran Technologies Pvt. Ltd. Dhakal was selected by The US Department of State for the International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP) and the Global Entrepreneurship Summit[1] 2016 from Nepal. He has come into controversy after requesting Kathmandu Press, an online news portal, to delete an article regarding government malfeasance.[2][3] After the online news agency declined to do so, the news article was deleted by Shiran Technologies Pvt. Ltd, who was associated with site development and design of the news portal (April 2020).[4]

Biswas Dhakal

Business

Dhakal founded F1Soft International Pvt. Ltd. in 2004 while in his freshman year at Nepal College of Information Technology. F1Soft currently serves more than 90% of financial institutions in Nepal with FinTech products, and connects over 3 million people in Nepal to various financial services.[5][6]

In 2009, Dhakal co-founded eSewa, Nepal's first mobile wallet. It carries out over 200,000 transactions every day.

Honors and awards
  • Global Entrepreneur 2011 (Nepal), Global Entrepreneurship Week[7]

Education

Dhakal attended Kantipur Engineering College, Tribhuvan University for Computer Engineering and Nepal College of Information Technology, Pokhara University for Software Engineering. He studied FinTech certificate course in Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Personal life

Dhakal was born in Janakpur, Nepal. He lives with his wife, Isha Sharma and daughter, Bibhusa Dhakal in Kathmandu, Nepal.

References
  1. Global Entrepreneurship Summit
  2. "प्रधानमन्त्रीका 'आईटी विज्ञ'को कर्तुत : आफूविरुद्ध समाचार लेखेको वेबसाइटलाई अनधिकृत नियन्त्रण लिएर समाचार नै हटाए". Ratopati. Retrieved 2 April 2020.
  3. "अनधिकृत रुपमा समाचार हटाइएको बारे हाम्रो विज्ञप्ति". Kathmandu Press. Kathmandu Press. Missing or empty |url= (help)
  4. "Kathmandu Press issues statement on unauthorised content removal by developers". The Himalayan Times. Retrieved 2 April 2020.
  5. "F1 Soft's president Dhakal and PM's IT consultant Ali in hot water after pressuring to illegally remove news item by hacking into backend". My Republica. Retrieved 7 August 2020.
  6. "Biswas Dhakal: Nepal's way of doing things needs to change". kathmandupost.com. Retrieved 7 August 2020.
  7. Global Entrepreneurship Week
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