Start-ups see no respite in sight as Covid-19 makes survival a challenge

With cash inflow at its lowest, start-up owners worry Kathmandu’s burgeoning start-up community will collapse.

Manish Jung Thapa, founder of Antidote, a start-up that rents clothing items, has had zero sales since the lockdown was implemented back in March. Thapa, 26, had only just begun his business when the pandemic hit, he says.