Sweden and Nepal. Growing together since 2019.
Himalaya Talents grew from our own experience of building and managing a technology team in Nepal. The story started with a single internship.
It all started with one internship application.
In 2019 an email landed at Concealed Wines, the Swedish company Himalaya Talents grew out of. A young master's student at the University of Perugia was looking for a six month internship. His name was Momish, and he was from Kathmandu.
The internship went well, and Momish and the founders simply clicked. When the six months were up nobody wanted to stop, so Momish kept working with the team as a consultant, now from Nepal. There was no grand offshore strategy behind it. Just one person worth keeping.
Then came the obvious question: are there more like Momish? There were. Person by person, recommendation by recommendation, the team grew into a real office in Kathmandu with more than twenty people. Since 2025 our consultants also work full time in projects outside the Concealed Wines group, and today the traffic goes both ways. Swedish team members regularly pack their bags and work from the Kathmandu office.
That is why a Swedish company has a subsidiary in Nepal. Not because a spreadsheet said so, but because it grew from people who work well together. Himalaya Talents simply opens that structure to your team.
“We did not start with a strategy document. We started with one person worth keeping. Everything since then has been about finding more people like Momish and treating them well.”
2019: One application
Momish, a master's student from Kathmandu studying in Perugia, asks Concealed Wines for a six month internship. He gets it.
The first consultant
The internship ends but the collaboration continues. Momish keeps working with the team, now from Nepal.
Person by person
One trusted colleague recommends the next. A real office takes shape in Kathmandu, and the team grows to 20+ people.
2025: Beyond our own projects
Consultants begin working full time in projects outside the Concealed Wines group. The Himalaya Talents model is born.
Today
A two-way relationship: Swedish team members regularly work from the Kathmandu office, and the model is open to European companies.
The office is real. So are the people.
A few of the colleagues working from the Kathmandu office today. All are locally employed and work daily in the projects you see on this site.
Momish Manandhar
Operational Manager
Project: WineTourism.com
Ramesh Dhakal
Consultant
Project: Concealed Wines
Sneha Shrestha
Consultant
Project: Concealed Wines
Smriti Shrestha
Consultant
Project: Concealed Wines
The people behind Himalaya
Himalaya Talents is founded and run by Swedish entrepreneurs who have built international companies together for over a decade. including the Nepal operation this model grew from.
Calle Nilsson
Co-founder & CEO
Serial entrepreneur with a background in IT and marketing, and a master's degree from the University of St Andrews. Calle has built and runs international businesses including Concealed Wines and WineTourism.com, and has led the Nepal operation from the start.
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Simon Källquist
Co-founder
Entrepreneur and co-founder of Concealed Wines and WineTourism.com, with a leadership background from some of Scandinavia's most established fine dining restaurants and a long record of building teams that stay.
What we stand for
Trust
Direct and honest communication between Sweden, Nepal and every client we work with.
Responsibility
We take responsibility for people, working environment and administration.
Equality
Equal opportunity irrespective of gender, including in technology roles where women remain underrepresented.
Development
We help people grow, with regular feedback and real development opportunities.
Long-term thinking
Stable relationships rather than short-term engagements, with clients and employees alike.
We are growing in Kathmandu.
Work with European teams from a professional local workplace that invests in your development.
Want to meet the team behind the model?
Start a conversation and we will gladly tell you more about how we work between Sweden and Nepal.