He began with Bengaluru’s discarded food and a belief that Indian technology could do useful work. Fourteen years after co-founding GPS Renewables, Mainak Chakraborty is building for a much larger appetite: India’s demand for clean fuel.

The former data-storage executive now has a messier brief: explain a village-scale recycling system clearly enough for communities, operators and investors to picture what happens after the blue bin.

Before renewable natural gas became an institutional asset class, John McKinney was learning its least glamorous lessons: permits, feedstock, financing and patience. Sevana Bioenergy is the result - a company built to make difficult infrastructure work.
Founded in 2017, Sevana Bioenergy builds the tanks where dairy manure and rotting food break down into pipeline-grade fuel. Then it bought the biggest one in North America for pennies on the dollar.