The umbrella
Synod Group
The umbrella for the companies and brands below: renewable energy, waste management, smart farming and professional learning, from the venture that started in 2009.
Entrepreneur · Founder · Bengaluru
Arun C Michael
Turning waste
into energy.
Ideas into companies.
I build companies in renewable energy, biogas and smart farming. Through Synod Group, that work connects environmental engineering with the people, products and software that put it into practice.
- Renewable energy
- Biogas, CBG and water treatment
- Smart farming
- AI and IoT
- Enterprise software
About Arun C Michael
Arun C Michael is an entrepreneur based in Bengaluru. Since 2009 he has built Synod Group, beginning with Synod Bioscience. The work covers biogas, compressed biogas (CBG), composting and water treatment, including sewage treatment plants (STP) and water treatment plants (WTP), plus smart farming and software. BIOPOWER is BPG Renewables Private Limited, formed in 2023. nanoFarm is NFI SmartFarm Solutions Private Limited. emPOWER is that company’s AI-assisted ERP.
01 — The founder’s story
₹40,000. A few friends. A willingness to begin.
2009 to todayLearning by building.
Entrepreneurship started on the factory floor.
In 2009, fresh out of college, I started Synod with a few friends, ₹40,000 and no previous business experience. We did the labour, deliveries and installations ourselves, learning the business by doing the work.
That beginning grew into biogas, compressed biogas (CBG), composting, water treatment and smart farming. Alongside my long-time co-founder Zeeshan M P, I have continued building businesses around practical environmental challenges.
Today, software, AI and connected sensors are part of that wider toolkit. My work includes R&D and operations at nanoFarm (NFI SmartFarm Solutions Private Limited) and enterprise product development through emPOWER, a product of that company. I still see myself as a student.
“You don’t need to be born a genius to build something great.”
02 — The companies
Built with a shared purpose.
Specialist companies and products, connected by a practical way of building.
Synod Bioscience
The founding venture · since 2009
Waste management, biogas plants, composting and environmental engineering for homes, institutions and businesses.
BIOPOWER
BPG Renewables Private Limited · formed 2023
Biogas, CBG, composting and water treatment (STP/WTP).
nanoFarm
NFI SmartFarm Solutions Private Limited · incorporated 2023
AI and IoT monitoring for biogas, waste and smart farming. I am named co-founder, with R&D and operations.
emPOWER
A product of NFI SmartFarm Solutions Private Limited
AI-assisted ERP for manufacturers, EPC businesses and field teams. NOVA is its permission-aware assistant.
NGC Renewables Private Limited · formed 2023
naturGas
Natural gas solutions and renewable energy infrastructure. No live website could be confirmed, so this card links to the company profile.
Company profile (opens in a new tab)
Portable biogas
WonderBin
Synod Group’s brand for portable biogas plants. The store is on SynodMart.
synodmart.com (opens in a new tab)
Synod Renewables
Synod Renewables Private Limited. Renewable energy projects and sustainability infrastructure within Synod Group. No separate website is published.
Synod Group (opens in a new tab)
A platform by Synod Group
ACADEMY
Professional learning and internships across engineering, biotechnology, agriculture, technology and business. A platform by Synod Group.
academy.synod.in (opens in a new tab)
Synod Group ecosystem
Sustainable Planet
Part of the Synod Group ecosystem. Publishes climate and energy editorial.
splanet.in (opens in a new tab) splanet.world (opens in a new tab)
Shop
SynodMart
Online shop for WonderBin portable biogas plants and accessories. The shop itself is titled WonderBin.
synodmart.com (opens in a new tab)03 — Areas of work
From physical systems to digital possibilities.
Energy, agriculture and software, connected through hands-on engineering.
- Organic waste
- CH4 Anaerobic digestion
- Useful energy and nutrients
Energy and environment
Making waste a resource.
Through BIOPOWER the work covers biogas, compressed biogas (CBG), composting and water treatment, including sewage treatment plants (STP) and water treatment plants (WTP).
Explore BIOPOWER (opens in a new tab)
nanoFarm product imagery
Agriculture and connected hardware
Growing with intelligence.
Controlled-environment growing systems, sensor integration and automation. nanoFarm connects agriculture with the tools needed to understand and manage conditions on the ground.
Explore nanoFarm (opens in a new tab)Enterprise software · emPOWER
Better tools for the everyday business.
Building software begins with understanding how people actually work. emPOWER is an AI-assisted ERP, and a product of NFI SmartFarm Solutions Private Limited, for manufacturers, EPC businesses and field teams.
Explore emPOWER (opens in a new tab)- Sales and CRM
- Purchasing
- Inventory
- Accounts and reporting
Areas of product development
04 — People and purpose
The work matters when it reaches people.
Practical systems, shared learning, and a responsibility beyond the product.
Clean cooking. A smaller daily burden.
In a reflection on visiting the Hakki-Pikki community near Bannerghatta, I described supplying WonderBin portable biogas systems at concessional prices, with charitable support for the installations.
The experience reinforced why the human purpose of a system matters as much as its engineering.
Read my community reflection (opens in a new tab)From classroom to real-world work.
ACADEMY is a platform by Synod Group for internships, skill development and career preparation. Its streams span engineering, biotechnology, agriculture, technology and business.
The focus is practical exposure: learning through live projects and working alongside people delivering them.
Discover ACADEMY (opens in a new tab)05 — Applied technology and research
Still curious. Still building.
Hands-on systems work, alongside the wider entrepreneurial journey.
Technical note · Zenodo · 4 November 2026
Exploring large-model inference on a single workstation.
Beyond VRAM Capacity: A Single-Workstation Case Study of Strata, Qwen3.8-Flash-Next, and OpenCode on an RTX 5080.
My OCF V1 case study documents hybrid memory placement, context compaction and queued execution. It explores running a model with an 83.62 GB on-disk footprint on a workstation with a 16 GB GPU, using host memory and storage alongside the card.
An author-published technical note about one workstation and one configuration. The results belong to that setup. It does not claim parity with frontier models.
Concept DOI 10.5281/zenodo.23945368 (opens in a new tab)
Version 1.0.2 record zenodo.org/records/23947052 (opens in a new tab)
06 — The journey
A foundation in engineering. A future built by doing.
From engineering classmates to co-founders, Zeeshan M P and I have built across sustainability and technology.
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2005–2009
Engineering foundations
Engineering studies at Mohandas College of Engineering & Technology, Thiruvananthapuram.
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2009
Entrepreneurship begins
The start of my journey with Synod Bioscience, working in waste management and renewable energy.
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2023
A broader venture ecosystem
BIOPOWER (BPG Renewables Private Limited) covers biogas, CBG, composting and water treatment (STP/WTP), alongside nanoFarm (NFI SmartFarm Solutions Private Limited) and naturGas (NGC Renewables Private Limited).
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2026
Connecting the physical and digital
Product development through emPOWER, a product of NFI SmartFarm Solutions Private Limited, and NOVA, alongside the Beyond VRAM Capacity case study.
07 — Writing, profiles and press
Explore the wider story.
Founder perspectives, a company press release, and public profiles.
08 — Questions
A few plain answers.
Short facts, in the same words used elsewhere on this page.
- Who is Arun C Michael?
- Arun C Michael is an entrepreneur based in Bengaluru. Since 2009 he has built companies in Synod Group, starting with Synod Bioscience. His work covers biogas, compressed biogas (CBG), composting, water treatment, smart farming and software.
- Which companies has he built?
- He started Synod Bioscience in 2009. nanoFarm (NFI SmartFarm Solutions Private Limited) names him co-founder, with R&D and operations. BIOPOWER (BPG Renewables Private Limited) and naturGas (NGC Renewables Private Limited) were formed in 2023. Synod Renewables is Synod Renewables Private Limited. WonderBin is Synod Group’s portable biogas brand. ACADEMY is a platform by Synod Group. Sustainable Planet and SynodMart are part of the same ecosystem. emPOWER is a product of NFI SmartFarm Solutions Private Limited, not a separate company.
- What does BIOPOWER do?
- BIOPOWER is BPG Renewables Private Limited, formed in 2023. It works in biogas, compressed biogas (CBG), composting and water treatment, including sewage treatment plants (STP) and water treatment plants (WTP). The company site is biopower.co.in, and compressed biogas projects are at cbg.biopower.co.in.
- What are nanoFarm and emPOWER?
- nanoFarm is NFI SmartFarm Solutions Private Limited. It works on AI and IoT monitoring for biogas, waste and smart farming. emPOWER is an AI-assisted ERP for manufacturers, EPC businesses and field teams, and a product of that company. NOVA is its permission-aware assistant.
Let’s build something useful
Have a challenge worth working on?
For collaborations, engineering conversations and technology partnerships.
arun@synod.in