Sandhya Gaire Poudel is the founder of Sandhya Pote House in Bharatpur, Chitwan. She taught herself to make traditional Nepali pote jewelry and started with just Rs. 5,000. Selling through TikTok and Facebook, she built a digital brand and trained over 5,000 women in the craft. Then she took her vision to Shark Tank Nepal.
Sandhya was originally from Butwal and later moved to Bharatpur, Chitwan, where she started her venture from scratch. It began with a craft she taught herself: the intricate work of making traditional Nepali pote, the glass bead jewelry and necklaces worn by married women.
She began the business, then known as Jhumka Ghara and now Sandhya Pote House, with only Rs. 5,000. She had no storefront at first, so she did everything herself, working as designer, social media manager, and delivery coordinator. She skipped traditional retail and sold her modern, elegant designs directly to married women through TikTok and Facebook.
As her brand grew, Sandhya wanted it to be more than a source of income for herself. She ran training programs and taught over 5,000 local women how to hand-weave glass bead jewelry. But she faced a hard limit: she could give these women skills, yet she didn’t have the capital or scale to offer them steady, full-time work.
To close that gap, she went to Shark Tank Nepal. She asked for Rs. 20 lakhs for 35% equity to build a dedicated warehouse, grow her inventory, and hire the women she had trained. Her clarity, strong online sales, and social mission moved the investors. In just 13 minutes, she closed a deal for her exact ask with Shark Cabinet Shrestha of the Agni Group.
Today, Sandhya shows how a woman can turn a traditional cultural craft into a thriving digital business, and lift thousands of other women toward financial independence along the way.
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