
He left a family office after seeing a worm-filled filter at his father’s house. Fifteen years later, BioFiltro is turning that unlikely encounter into water infrastructure financed by long contracts, carbon credits and a $35 million investment.

He started as a river guide, found a neglected piece of university science, and built ZwitterCo around an unglamorous industrial problem: filters that foul. The useful lesson is less about having an idea than learning how to carry one into the world.

Aaron Tartakovsky is turning the least glamorous room in a building into a small piece of urban infrastructure - and using beer to persuade the rest of us to look.