Founded in 2007, Divert is technology company on a mission to Protect the Value of Food™ by creating solutions to eliminate wasted food. The company creates technology and infrastructure to prevent wasted food, recovers edible food to serve communities in need, and diverts food waste from landfills.

Divert operates Anaerobic Digesters to produce renewable energy from wasted food. In 2010, they were hired by Kroger to design, build, and operate a facility in downtown LA to process nearly 200 tons per day (tpd), which is still active today.

Over the past few years the Company has raised over $300M in funding from a variety of sources including:

• $80M from ARA Partners, a leading industrial decarbonization fund, and ARA coinvestors.

• $60M in Green bonds to build out a fully integrated 100k tpa food waste to RNG facility in Turlock California.

• $160M of strategic investment from Enbridge a leading energy infrastructure and natural gas pipeline company to, among other things, construct a fully integrated facility in Longview, WA.

Projects & partnerships

December 2024 - Divert, Inc. opened California's first Integrated Diversion & Energy Facility in Turlock, processing 100,000 tons of unsold food annually into renewable energy and soil amendments, mitigating 23,000 metric tons of CO₂ emissions.

November 2024 - Divert, Inc. and PG&E achieved a first-of-its-kind interconnection in California, injecting carbon-negative renewable energy from unsold food into PG&E’s natural gas system.

Divert’s business model is structured to incentivize reduction first and foremost, followed by recovery through existing donation systems, and lastly renewable energy production from leftover inedible food.

• Divert installs the digesters in urban and industrial settings - reducing the carbon footprint by eliminating trucks.

• Divert IoT platform, uses internally developed hardware, sensors and algorithms to deliver waste data, to help clients understand what they are wasting, why and how much. They also build partnerships with Food Banks to help their clients donate unsold food that would otherwise end in a landfill - real-time tracking solutions.

• Divert consolidates recycling information with data on food donation, trash and front door sales into a customizable database to transform clients raw numbers into actionable insights. Divert's platform generates simple and easy to understand metrics dashboard that pinpointed specific areas of opportunity for customers.

For supply value chains that aims to stop wasted food at the source by aggregating data on current practices to make suggestions to minimize wasted food - the goal of reduction in first place and renewable energy production in second place.