Waste Upcycling Tech Startups
Sedron Technologies has raised $500M to Scale Its Infrastructure
Adam Harrie — April 15, 2026
American company Sedron Technologies has secured $500 million in funding from Ara Partners to scale its 'Varcor' system, a waste-upcycling platform that converts liquid agricultural and municipal waste into reusable water, organic fertilizer and electricity. All this is done at a fraction of the energy cost of standard methods.
The company operates a commercial-scale project at a dairy farm in Indiana and plans to commission a second in Wisconsin this upcoming summer. Another facility in Florida, which will target PFAS contamination and biosolids, starts April 23.
As farms and cities face mounting pressure to manage waste disposal and chemical contamination, Sedron shows how circular upcycling technology can turn a costly environmental problem into a source of usable, revenue-generating resources.
