News18 — Inside India's 'Inverter Man' Kunwer Sachdev's Rs 100 Crore Apartment
News18 publishes a virtual tour of Kunwer Sachdev's residence at DLF Magnolias, Gurugram — and the story behind the inverter pioneer who is now leading Kunwwer.AI, an artificial-intelligence venture for Indian founders.
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The Journey Podcast — Kunwer Sachdev on the Su-Kam story, success, failure & bankruptcy
In a long-form interview on The Journey Podcast with Simarpreet Singh, Kunwer Sachdev — the Inverter Man of India — traces the full arc of Su-Kam: its 1998 founding, the inverter revolution, the downfall and 240+ crore debt, the legal battles, and what comes next.
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CrazyEngineers — Kunwer Sachdev: revolutionizing the inverter industry with Su-Kam
CrazyEngineers' 'Small Talk' interview with Kunwer Sachdev traces his path from selling pens and running a cable-TV business to founding Su-Kam and reinventing the Indian inverter as the Home UPS — with his lessons on idea execution, passion and leadership.
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Yahoo Finance — Su-vastika launches 1S to 48S wireless handheld cell voltage tester
Carried on Yahoo Finance via ACCESS Newswire, Su-vastika announces a pocket-sized 1S–48S wireless handheld cell-voltage tester for lithium battery packs, developed under the mentorship of Kunwer Sachdev. Su-vastika holds a patent for the cell-measuring technology.
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OpenPR — Su-vastika product announcement (International press release network)
Su-vastika Systems product announcement carried by OpenPR, an international press release distribution network — covering the lithium energy storage and solar PCU product lines being introduced by Kunwer Sachdev's new venture for global markets (Africa, Middle East, Southeast Asia).
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Zee News: From Selling Pens to Building a Million-Dollar Empire
Zee News tells the Su-Kam → Su-vastika story through the lens of partnership: how Kunwer Sachdev's journey from pen-selling student to founder of a power-electronics empire was made possible alongside Khushboo Sachdev. Wounds turned into wisdom.
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SolarClap — Kunwer Sachdev, the Inverter Man of India, on power backup, success and failure
On the SolarClap business podcast with Shashank Tyagi, Kunwer Sachdev discusses his journey across the power-backup industry — from the lead-acid era to lithium batteries — the hurdles he overcame, and his view of where the energy industry is heading.
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FinancialContent — Su-vastika unveils 19.2 kWh lithium-ion battery with a 3-phase, 20 KVA lithium inverter
Carried on FinancialContent via ABNewswire, Su-vastika unveils a 19.2 kWh lithium-ion battery paired with a three-phase 20 KVA lithium inverter for dependable home and commercial backup — part of the Su-vastika line-up mentored by Kunwer Sachdev, founder of Su-Kam.
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Made in India: स्टेटकॉन एनर्जिया और सु-वास्तिका ने हाथ मिलाया
भारत की स्वच्छ ऊर्जा की ओर संक्रमण को तेज़ करने के एक साहसिक कदम में, स्टेटकॉन एनर्जिया और सु-वास्तिका ने हाथ मिलाया है। श्री कुंवर सचदेव, जो 'इन्वर्टर मैन ऑफ इंडिया' के नाम से प्रसिद्ध हैं, ने कहा: 'मेरा दृष्टिकोण सु-वास्तिका के माध्यम से भारत को विश्वसनीय और कुशल BESS समाधानों से सशक्त बनाना है।'
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Josh Talks Hindi: Kunwer Sachdev's Full Su-Kam Story (1.1M+ views)
Josh Talks Hindi's full long-form interview with Kunwer Sachdev — the rise, the loss, what built the brand and what broke it. The most-watched single-source telling of the Su-Kam story in Hindi, with 1.1 million+ views. The interview every Indian founder should watch.
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Wikipedia — Kunwer Sachdev (Founder, Su-Kam Power Systems)
The Wikipedia biographical entry for Kunwer Sachdev — founder of Su-Kam Power Systems and currently building Su-Vastika and Kunwwer.AI. Covers his early years selling pens to fund his education, founding Su-Kam in 1988, the patents portfolio, the NCLT period, and post-2020 ventures.
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Wikipedia — Su-Kam Power Systems
The encyclopaedia entry for Su-Kam Power Systems Limited — the inverter and UPS company founded by Kunwer Sachdev in 1998, its product milestones (Chic plastic inverter, sine-wave inverters, Solar PCU), the Reliance and Temasek investment, and the eventual 2018 NCLT proceedings.
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From Selling Pens To Building A Million-Dollar Empire
Kunwer Sachdev, founder of Su-Kam, has cemented his place in history by revolutionizing the power backup sector in India. Under his guidance, Su-vastika is now leading the charge towards a sustainable future in energy storage.
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Manufacturing Today India — Su-Vastika's Lithium Battery UPS revolutionises power backup solutions
In an interview with Manufacturing Today India, Kunwer Sachdev — founder of Su-Kam and mentor at Su-vastika — explains how Su-vastika's 10–500 KVA lithium battery UPS is replacing diesel generators with reliable, cost-effective and eco-friendly power backup.
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The Guardian Nigeria — Su-Kam founder Kunwer Sachdev starts new firm, 'Su-vastika'
The Guardian Nigeria reports on Kunwer Sachdev's new venture Su-Vastika after Su-Kam — significant for African markets where Su-Kam was the #2 inverter brand in Nigeria and held projects across Gabon, Malawi, Rwanda and Uganda.
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Focused on Lithium Battery Technology — Kunwer Sachdev
Su-vastika is creating a better technology for solar storage and lithium batteries. The company's focus remains on Emergency Rescue Devices and Hybrid Solar technology for modern infrastructure and lift backups.
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Leadership Spotlight: Kunwer Sachdev shares notes on his leadership style
From selling pens to building a million-dollar empire, Kunwer Sachdev's journey is a masterclass in resilience. He shares insights into his leadership philosophy and the early days of building Su-Kam, redefining the industry standard.
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TV9 Hindi — पॉवर बैकअप से लेकर सोलर सेक्टर तक: 'इन्वर्टर मैन ऑफ इंडिया' की कहानी
TV9 Hindi profiles how Kunwer Sachdev transformed India's power-backup industry and went on to champion solar energy — earning him the titles The Inverter Man of India and The Solar Man of India.
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पेन से करोड़ों तक: कुंवर सचदेव की सफलता की कहानी
सु-काम कंपनी के फाउंडर कुंवर सचदेव की कहानी हर युवा उद्यमी के लिए प्रेरणा है। उन्होंने दिखाया कि कैसे एक साधारण पृष्ठभूमि से निकलकर आप दुनिया बदल सकते हैं।
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Patrika — पावर बैकअप से सचदेव लाए टैक्नॉलॉजी की दुनिया में क्रांति
Patrika reports from Meerut on Kunwer Sachdev's address to engineering students — covering his work on power backup, solar, and lithium-ion storage, plus career advice for future engineers.
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Benzinga — Kunwer Sachdev, The Inverter Man Of India Is Back
Benzinga (US international financial press) carries the announcement that Kunwer Sachdev — founder of Su-Kam — has returned to the power-electronics industry as mentor to Su-vastika Solar. The piece notes Su-vastika's 60+ patent filings (roughly 2 technology patents per month) and the strategic focus on energy storage systems for grid support and renewable/EV integration. Significant placement on a US-facing financial wire, December 2022.
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pv magazine India — Su-vastika launches up to 500 kVA lithium battery UPS
Solar trade publication pv magazine India covers Su-vastika's 10–500 kVA lithium battery UPS range, positioned as an environment-friendly replacement for diesel gensets in homes, offices, hospitals and malls. The venture is mentored by Kunwer Sachdev, the Inverter Man of India.
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Business Standard — Su-vastika launches up to 500 KVA Lithium Battery UPS, an alternative to diesel generators
Business Standard (via ANI) reports Su-vastika's launch of lithium battery UPS systems from 10 KVA to 500 KVA as a clean alternative to diesel generators — developed under the mentorship of Kunwer Sachdev, founder of Su-Kam, with running costs claimed up to 75% lower than DG sets.
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Benzinga — Su-vastika Solar receives patent for IoT-based multi-battery selection system
Benzinga (US international press) reports that Su-vastika Solar has been granted a patent by the Government of India for its IoT-based system and method for multiple battery selection. The piece also highlights Su-vastika's EV charger development using isolation-transformer technology. International coverage of an Indian clean-energy patent, September 2022.
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Kunwer Sachdev: The Solar Man of India — siliconindia Success Story
siliconindia's success-stories series profiles Kunwer Sachdev's transition from inverter pioneer to a leader of India's early solar revolution — including off-grid village deployments and the country's first solar PCU.
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Electronics For You — With Heavy Outstanding Dues, Su-Kam Is Up For Bidding
Electronics For You reports on the NCLT proceedings: Su-Kam Power Systems, carrying outstanding dues of around Rs 370 crore to IDBI and SBI, enters insolvency bidding — with Carlyle, AION Capital and Schneider Electric among the parties evaluating the asset.
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SaurEnergy — With High Debts of Rs 370 Cr, Su-Kam to Face Auctions
Solar trade publication SaurEnergy covers the late-2018 NCLT auction phase, the scale of Su-Kam's outstanding obligations, and the implications for India's inverter and solar industry — including the path that eventually led Kunwer Sachdev to mentor Su-Vastika.
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Amar Ujala — 2000 करोड़ की कंपनी खड़ी कर इस शख्स ने दुनिया में बजाया डंका
Amar Ujala's success-stories feature documents Kunwer Sachdev's business journey, his innovations in plastic-body and sine-wave inverters, and Su-Kam's growth into a globally recognised brand.
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DNA India: Meet the Inverter Man of India
DNA India's honest account of Su-Kam's 26-year run — what went wrong, what worked, and the lessons Kunwer Sachdev carries forward. One of the more unsentimental profiles of the founder's full arc.
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PV Magazine India — Interview: Su-Kam is building solar hybrid inverters
PV Magazine India interviews Kunwer Sachdev on Su-Kam's hybrid solar inverters, large-scale projects (1 MW at Punjab Engineering College, 1 MW Chennai Metro, 1.3 MW Assam Rifles/Indian Army, 100 kW HUDA City Centre Metro), the 76 technology patents Su-Kam held at the time of the interview, the Solarcon and Brainy product lines, why DC is more efficient than AC, and Su-Kam's presence in 90+ countries.
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PV Magazine India — Su-Kam showcases state-of-the-art solar products at Middle East Electricity Meet
PV Magazine India press release on Su-Kam's participation at the Middle East Electricity Meet (MEE Dubai), showcasing solar inverters, hybrid PCUs and battery storage products to a Middle East and Africa audience.
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BW Businessworld: Businesses Are More Like An Affair Than A Marriage
BW Businessworld interview by Avishek Banerjee — Kunwer Sachdev on the modern founder mindset, partnerships, and what changes the moment you take outside capital. Honest reflections on what the textbooks don't teach about scaling a hardware brand in India.
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Discovery Channel — Sun Fuel: India's Best Solar Documentary (feat. Su-Kam)
The Discovery Channel feature documentary Sun Fuel — India's most-cited piece of national television journalism on solar — built around Su-Kam's solar work in rural India. The film follows Raju, a young boy in a remote Uttar Pradesh village who studies at night after solar reaches his home, and a young mother in Tripura who safely delivers her baby at a healthcare centre that was earlier lit only by candle. Su-Kam's solar installations across the country anchor the film's central thesis: solar as a fuel, not a niche.
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African Review — Su-Kam's impact on lighting up Africa
African Review Magazine covers Su-Kam's solar and hybrid energy work across Africa: the 2,000-unit solar street-lighting deployment in Gabon (Kango, Mouila, Bitam), the hybrid solar-wind microgrid in 5 remote Malawi villages, and the Dusk-to-Dawn solar lighting technology Su-Kam pioneered for rural African deployment.
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Powerline Magazine — Kunwer Sachdev profile
Powerline Magazine profiles Kunwer Sachdev — Su-Kam's founder and MD — covering the company's evolution from plastic-body inverters to large-scale solar PCUs, the Su-Kam Smart Series, and the technology IP portfolio.
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EQ Mag Pro — 'Change the market before it changes you' — Su-Kam MD Kunwer Sachdev
EQ Mag Pro covers Kunwer Sachdev's industry talk on continuous reinvention in the Indian solar and power-electronics market — why staying ahead of competition requires changing the market yourself rather than reacting to it.
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Saur Energy — Change the market: Kunwer Sachdev at India International Science Festival
Saur Energy reports Kunwer Sachdev's address at the India International Science Festival on changing the solar inverter market before market forces change it — covers Su-Kam's R&D approach, MOSFET-based design, and the journey from cable-TV to solar pioneer.
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Electronics For You / EB — "I'm Still Struggling to Be Successful" — Kunwer Sachdev
Electronics Bazaar's My Story series carries a long-form first-person interview with Kunwer Sachdev — his earliest cable-TV days, why he built Su-Kam to compete with imported products, and what he means when he calls himself a perpetual learner who's still struggling.
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YourStory — With Rs 10,000, This Entrepreneur Built India's Leading Inverter Brand
YourStory's profile traces Kunwer Sachdev's bootstrapped beginnings — starting Su-Kam with about Rs 10,000 of working capital, refusing to outsource design, and turning Su-Kam into India's most trusted inverter manufacturer over two decades.
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Business Standard: Kalam Inaugurates Mini Solar Plant
Business Standard's coverage of a landmark rural-solar moment — Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam inaugurating Su-Kam's off-grid solar deployment in Dimple Yadav's constituency. One of the early visible endorsements of distributed solar by an Indian public figure.
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Forbes India: Why Su-Kam is Looking Up to the Sun
Forbes India profiles Su-Kam's pivot into solar — Kunwer Sachdev's bet on Indian solar manufacturing six years before national policy made it mainstream. Coverage of the strategic shift from inverter-only to solar-plus-storage and what it took to commit capacity ahead of the demand curve.
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NCN Online (Nigeria) — Su-Kam Surpasses Expectations with Business Dealers Meet in Abuja
Nigerian Communications News reports from Abuja on Su-Kam's flagship dealer meet at the Nigerian capital — bringing together West African distributors during the years Su-Kam was Africa's most awarded Indian inverter brand.
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ET Now: Tee Time with Kunwer Sachdev
Economic Times Now's long-form Tee Time interview — life, scaling Su-Kam, the road to manufacturing in India, and the personal disciplines that shaped Kunwer Sachdev's career. A relaxed, unguarded conversation rather than a business briefing.
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Outlook Business Magazine Cover Story: The Passion Behind Kunwer Sachdev
Outlook Business magazine ran a cover profile on Kunwer Sachdev that revealed a deeply personal side of the Su-Kam founder — his philosophy of invention, his relationship with failure, and the obsessive curiosity that dr
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IDEAS/RePEc — Entrepreneurship and Economic Growth: A Case Study of Su-Kam
Peer-reviewed academic case study on Su-Kam published in the Indian Journal of Commerce and Management Studies (Vol 2, Issue 2, March 2011, pages 292-296). Authored by Vikrant Saklani, Assistant Professor of Commerce at Govt. College for Women (R.K.M.V.), Shimla. Indexed in the IDEAS/RePEc economics research database. The paper traces Kunwer Sachdev's path from a Rs. 10,000 Cable TV start-up to building Su-Kam into an ISO 9001 / ISO 14001 certified Indian MNC — at the time 10,000 dealers, 6 manufacturing units, exports to 71 countries, 23 India offices + 1 Dubai office, 2,100+ employees, with investment from Reliance India Power Fund (RADAG + Temasek Holdings, Singapore). The paper concludes with lessons drawn from Su-Kam's success for other Indian entrepreneurs.
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SiliconIndia — My Entrepreneurial Journey, by Kunwer Sachdev
In a first-person cover-story essay for SiliconIndia (February 2011), Kunwer Sachdev recounts his journey — from helping in his brother's pen business and coining the name 'Su-Kam,' through the cable-TV years, to founding Su-Kam and growing it to a Rs. 500-crore inverter brand filing two patents a month.
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India Today — Spirit of India: Ignited Minds (feature on Su-Kam)
India Today magazine's 'Spirit of India: Ignited Minds' editorial series featuring Su-Kam Power Systems under Kunwer Sachdev. India Today highlighted Su-Kam in its broader coverage of innovation in India, including the magazine's listing of plastic-body inverters among the top 10 innovations of the decade. Article preserved via the Wayback Machine.
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