Founded in 2007, Divert is an impact technology company on a mission to protect the value of food. Divert is transforming the food value chain by creating innovative and efficient solutions to eliminate wasted food. Divert creates advanced technology and sustainable infrastructure to prevent wasted food, recovers edible food to serve communities in need, and diverts food waste from landfills.
Location: United States
Employees: 201-500
Total raised: $1B
Founded date: 2007
Investors 2
| Date | Name | Website |
| - | MissionPoi... | mppgrp.com |
| - | Ara Partne... | arapartner... |
Funding Rounds 2
| Date | Series | Amount | Investors |
| 03.03.2023 | - | $1B | Ara Partne... |
| 02.01.2018 | - | $2.71M | - |
Mentions in press and media 13
| Date | Title | Description |
| 21.01.2026 | Divert Raises Funding | Divert, Inc., a West Concord, MA-based provider of circular economy solutions for food waste, raised an undisclosed amount of funding. The round was led by Wittington Investments, and in conjunction with the funding, Zvi Orvitz and Ali Naqv... |
| 30.11.2025 | As US hunger rises, Trump administration’s ‘efficiency’ goals cause massive food waste (Opinion) | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... By Tevis Garrett Graddy-Lovelace The U.S. government has caused massive food waste during President Donald Trump’s second term. Policies such as immigration raids, tariff changes and temporary and ... |
| 01.04.2024 | Kroger Invites Customers to Join in Celebration of Earth Month | Retailer recognizing Earth Month by protecting wildlife, introduces new reusable bags CINCINNATI, April 1, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- The Kroger Co. (NYSE: KR), today announced it is celebrating Earth Day the entire month of April, kicking off wi... |
| 01.11.2023 | Food waste solutions for big business | The food management market is soaring to resolve grocery chains' struggle with surplus This season, with Thanksgiving fast-approaching, Americans are all set to up their food waste. An earlier report approximated that 35% of the turkey meat... |
| 21.09.2023 | Why grocery food waste is big business | A total of 119 billion pounds of food, or 40% of all food in the US, goes to waste every year The amount of food that goes to waste in the U.S. alone every year is, frankly, shocking: a total of 119 billion pounds of food, which equates to ... |
| 27.04.2023 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: Restaurant order app me&u bagged $30m, Remilk approved for Israeli markets, biomaterials bonanza | This week, me&u officially announced a Series C close and alt-dairy startup Remilk got approved in Israel to enter commercial markets with its products. Several biomaterials startups made headlines with fundraises, partnerships and othe... |
| 03.03.2023 | Divert Raises $100M in Equity Funding | Divert, a West Concord, MA-based impact technology company, raised $100M in Equity funding. The round consisted of $80M in growth stock from Enbridge and $20M led by current investor Ara Partners. The company intends to use the funds to acc... |
| 02.03.2023 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: Shef cooks up $75m, Futura Gaïa lands $11m, Asuene closes $22.8m | This week, US-based Shef, which runs an online marketplace for home-cooked meals, announced new funding, as did France’s Futura Gaïa, for its soil-based vertical farms. Climate tech startup Asuene closed a $22 million round and several comp... |
| 01.03.2023 | Brief: Divert bags $100m, strikes $1bn infrastructure deal with Enbridge to turn food waste into biogas | Energy company Enbridge has committed $1 billion to help tech company Divert expand its food waste processing facilities across North America. Divert works with grocery retailers to process surplus food into renewable gas. Divert has also r... |
| 01.03.2023 | Divert bags $100M growth equity, $1B financing to tackle grocery store food waste | Every year, about 35% of the food supply in the U.S. is wasted. About half of that’s because of picky eaters or outsize restaurant portions, but the rest happens further upstream, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, with ... |
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