Entrepreneurship is not a 9 am to 5 pm activity; it is a lifestyle,” shares Varun Karad, Chief Business Officer, of GPS Renewables. Clearly, this mindset was something he was born with rather than something he inherited. Coming from a line of doctors, Karad chose to deter with a specialization in commerce and is an alumnus of St. Xavier’s Mumbai and the University of Canberra. He’s currently pursuing his executive education at Stanford University.

So what led to the inception of GPS Renewables? “There was no Eureka moment as such in the conception of GPSR. It was a well-thought-out plan for identifying the needs of the waste market and creating a product which had a value proposition. The need for waste management products which generate a genuine ROI always existed,” he adds. The Bangalore-based cleantech startup focuses on organic waste management by using bio methanation technologies for substituting fossil fuel with bio-energy. GPSR is the largest Biogas player and one of the prominent Technology + EPC players in the bio-methanation space.

Its flagship products, BioUrja and BiogasBot, have helped develop 107 projects across the subcontinent, with the smallest plant having 50kg per day and the largest plant having 550 tonnes a day capacity. The startup has 107 BioUrja installations across India,

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