Swaroop Chand 🌳🌤🍺

Building & growing | CBO | Formerly Citigroup, Oracle, Lemonop, Perfios. Love comic books.

[Draig005 @ashith005]

Some time back, we shared that we were testing our platform.

Here's a short compilation from our recent road demo.(Please excuse the raw footage and background, we shot this ourselves at a nearby location just to capture the moment.)

Seeing months work turn into a moving, functioning machine hits different. The first runs were pure satisfaction - the whole team had that grin you can't hide, like kids finally sitting in their favourite supercar.
This phase taught us plenty. Those lessons are already shaping our next prototype.

We'll start work on it soon. Goal is clear: make it faster, stronger, more efficient, and cost-efficient in every way that counts.

Big shoutout to my co-founder @aggukarkera, who drove the entire demo like a pro. calm, precise, pushing the machine just right. His confidence let the rest of us focus on the tech.

None of this happens without the team. From marathon build sessions to constant iteration and debugging, it's been a true collective effort. Grateful to build with people this committed and capable.

This current platform isn't done , it becomes our ongoing testbed for validating what's next coming next.
From basement prototype to functional road demo, the journey's been intense. But we're just getting started on pushing the boundaries of what a micro-factory-built EV can achieve.
Stay tuned.

@startupindia
@Startup_Kar
@GoI_MeitY
@itssiliconbeach
@TiEMangaluru
@fdotinc
@Rainmatterin

[Prashant Nair @_prashantnair]

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[Ishan Tanna 🇮🇳 @IshanTanna1]

Roj Roj 300 Point Nifty Girti Rahi To Hamare Pass Nifty Ka Sirf 77 Din Ka Stock Hai

[Gurmeet Chadha @connectgurmeet]

Azolla based cultivation system-how can India reduce Urea imports n enhance energy security.

Fertiliser security is increasingly a question of energy security, fiscal prudence and national resilience.

India has made commendable progress in expanding domestic urea capacity. Yet structural exposure remains: the country still imports ~7–9 MT of urea annually, and over a quarter of those imports come from China, even as most domestic production depends on imported LNG for ammonia synthesis via the Haber–Bosch process. A meaningful share of the nitrogen sustaining Indian agriculture therefore remains linked to global energy and fertiliser supply chains.

In a geopolitically uncertain world, such dependencies—whether on energy markets or strategic competitors—deserve careful attention.

This exposure also carries fiscal implications: fertiliser subsidies have at times approached ₹2 lakh crore annually, reflecting the scale of India’s commitment to supporting farmers.

For over a century the world has relied on fossil fuels to fix atmospheric nitrogen. Nature, however, has long done the same using sunlight and biology.

Encouragingly, young Indian entrepreneurs are exploring this pathway. One such indigenous innovation is an Azolla-based cultivation system developed by Neervana Netzero Pvt. Ltd. (WO2024241342), enabling decentralised biological nitrogen fixation that could act as a domestic buffer to fertiliser supply volatility while potentially representing one of the world’s lowest-cost scalable carbon capture pathways.

The technology is Indian in origin, with patent filings across India, the US, China, European Union, Australia and Saudi Arabia, and a granted patent in South Africa. Beyond fertiliser resilience, Azolla biomass may also serve as a feedstock for domestic biofuel production via transesterification, contributing to long-term energy security.

Innovations like these reflect the spirit of Atmanirbhar Bharat and Make in India.

With the right policy support, such indigenous climate solutions could strengthen agricultural resilience while positioning India as an important global leader in low-cost carbon capture emerging from the Global South.

@PMOIndia @narendramodi @NITIAayog @ChouhanShivraj

[Tar ⚡ @itsTarH]

India's AI 🙏🇮🇳
@SarvamAI

Have a good feeling about this one
They have been able to do a lot with limited resources

[Swaroop Chand 🌳🌤🍺 @cswar]

An exciting angle on human ageing. @elonmusk What’re your initial thoughts on this?

[Deepinder Goyal @deepigoyal]

I’m not sharing this as the CEO of Eternal, but as a fellow human, curious enough to follow a strange thread. A thread I can’t keep with myself any longer.

It’s open-source, backed by science, and shared with you as part of our common quest for scientific progress on human longevity.

Newton gave us a word for it. Einstein said it bends spacetime. I am saying gravity shortens lifespan. 

Read on, and tell me what you think.

[Swaroop Chand 🌳🌤🍺 @cswar]

Changing dates of a pre-booked ticket - shows only 1 option, 10k+₹, 1 stop, 7hrs+

But when you try fresh booking same date, you get a direct flight, 2hrs, 7k₹ option (pic 2).

Wonder if there’s any industry left that puts the paying customer first 😢

@IndiGo6E @makemytrip

[Swaroop Chand 🌳🌤🍺 @cswar]

@DDCPlayz @DoorsRoblox Good luck!

[DDCPlayzYT @DDCPlayz]

@DoorsRoblox #DoorsSkinContest Hey! I made 4 more skins! Hope the devs like it! (I posted another 4 earlier go check that out too!)

[DDCPlayzYT @DDCPlayz]

@DoorsRoblox #DoorsSkinContest Here a few a concepts I made today! More in the replies and even more coming soon! Hopefully atleast one of my ideas gets accepted!

[Swaroop Chand 🌳🌤🍺 @cswar]

@DDCPlayz @DoorsRoblox Noice! Good luck

[Swaroop Chand 🌳🌤🍺 @cswar]

@SwiggyCares @SwiggyInstamart Thanks Biswas. Attaching.

[Swaroop Chand 🌳🌤🍺 @cswar]

Space tech startup Pixxel, became the 1st Indian private company to launch satellites when they hitched a ride on a SpaceX rocket. These are space imagery satellites which will help India in agri, energy, climate.

P.S. love the home page tagline.& the product name - Firefly 💚

[Swaroop Chand 🌳🌤🍺 @cswar]

HDFC acquiring 9% in Au Bank AND Kotak. HUL to buy Minimalist for 3000cr.

Historically India’s cash rich companies have been conservative in M&A. Now conditions are emerging for M&A to be an imp part of growth strategy. Example, for IT services to compete in the AI world.

[Swaroop Chand 🌳🌤🍺 @cswar]

Mixing passion & profession is not always a good idea 😂

[Vikram Chandrashekar @Vikrchan]

Well the short trip to one of my fav cities here

Mysuru : a favourite city

The Bangalore Mysore new “expressway??” has been built for helping the people on either side getting used to what they are going to experience gradually..

While the Bangalorean who is always in a rush to get nowhere is made to pay a lot of money to drive slowly and getting used to the greenery enjoying life at a slow pace. The Mysore folks on the other hand are put at ease with their normal pace of life and slowly witnessing the increase in Bengaluru traffic and the concrete than a sudden shock .Super duper idea by the govt with the huge tolls and the speed limits .👏👏👏

An apt song that comes to mind

Cruise control , Cruise control ( yes there is a speed limit ),
Masti ke paakshala ( the highways being overtaken by them)
You may meet a Rang di Basanti of Sholay fame near Ramangara ( watch out)

[Swaroop Chand 🌳🌤🍺 @cswar]

A person types furiously into a black bash terminal "ls -alt", "tail file", "diff file1 file2". 10 sec later, says "I'm in". Hacking in Hollywood.

A person is guessing passwords & another person keys them in. They get the password right in the last attempt. Hacking in Bollywood

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Grok can explain what’s happening on pictures of physics blackboards!

[Swaroop Chand 🌳🌤🍺 @cswar]

What a moment for the Indian startup ecosystem. @zomato @deepigoyal 👏🏼👏🏼💚

[Swaroop Chand 🌳🌤🍺 @cswar]

What an amazing marketing campaign. Fun, adventure, beauty of physics, a world’s first etc - all while staying completely on-brand.

https://t.co/i0PtO94iCc