The British College in Kathmandu has officially rolled out Go Daan, a student-built fundraising platform that becomes the first startup to come out of its own incubation centre. With the launch, the college is clearly stepping up its push to support student entrepreneurship and turn classroom ideas into real businesses.
The launch event, held at the TBC premises, was positioned as more than a product launch but as a milestone for the college’s incubation ecosystem, which aims at turning students’ ideas into viable ventures with impact in the real world.
Go Daan: A digital push to make giving easier in Nepal
At the heart of the new venture is a simple idea: making it easier and safer for people to help each other.
Go Daan has been built as a digital fundraising platform intended to streamline donations for individuals and communities across Nepal. According to the college, the platform is designed around three core promises, simplicity, safety and transparency, so that users can contribute with confidence and track where support is going.
The startup has been founded by Abhushan Shrestha, a Level 4 student of BSc (Hons) Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence at TBC. Shrestha began working on the idea with the support of the TBC Incubation Centre, which provided guidance and resources through the early stages.
“Go Daan began with a simple mission to make it easier for people to get help when they need it most,” Shrestha said at the launch, adding that support from the incubation centre had helped the team take its “first steps towards building a platform that empowers communities.”
First proof of concept for TBC’s incubation centre
For The British College, Go Daan represents the first visible outcome of its incubation programme, a student-led idea that has progressed to a formal launch.
Declan P Bannon, Academic Dean at TBC, used the occasion to underscore what the college wants its incubation set-up to stand for. Congratulating “Team Go Daan” and acknowledging Ganesh Paudyal’s role in bringing the startup to life, Bannon described the launch as an example of what the college’s incubation ecosystem is designed to achieve.
The framing of the event made it clear that the college views Go Daan not just as a standalone venture but as a template for how student ideas can be nurtured into functioning startups under faculty and institutional mentorship.
Leadership message: courage to start, support to grow
TBC’s Group CEO and Founder, Rajen Kandel, used his remarks to connect the new startup with his own early experience as an entrepreneur. Sharing that he had started his first business at the age of 22 by borrowing money through a credit card, Kandel highlighted the personal risk that often sits at the beginning of entrepreneurial journeys.
“It takes courage to begin, and that courage deserves a platform,” he said, positioning the TBC Incubation Centre as that platform for current students.
Why Go Daan matters for TBC’s startup ambitions
By backing Go Daan as the first startup to come out of its incubation centre, TBC is effectively stress-testing its promise to foster entrepreneurship, innovation and student-led impact on campus. The college has publicly tied the success of the venture to the objectives of its incubation ecosystem, which suggests that more student projects may be encouraged to follow a similar route from classroom concept to startup launch.
For Shrestha and the Go Daan team, the launch is an initial step rather than an endpoint: the platform will now have to prove that a student-built product can handle real fundraising needs while delivering on its stated commitments of ease, safety and transparency for people and communities seeking help.
For TBC, meanwhile, Go Daan offers a concrete case it can point to when talking about being “more than a college”, an institution where academic learning, mentorship and structured incubation can combine to turn a student’s idea into a working venture.
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