Divergent Taps New COO to Scale its Digital Manufacturing Revolution

TORRANCE, CA – June 01, 2026 – Divergent Technologies, Inc., a company at the forefront of the digital manufacturing wave, has promoted foundational member Cooper Keller to Chief Operating Officer, a move signaling an aggressive push to scale its operations and meet surging global demand. The appointment comes as the company leverages its unicorn status and a recent $290 million funding round to entrench its revolutionary DAPS™ platform across the defense, aerospace, and automotive industries.

Keller’s promotion is more than a simple leadership shuffle; it represents a strategic pivot from development to mass-scale implementation. As the new COO, Keller will oversee all customer-facing operational functions, including application engineering, program management, supply chain, quality assurance, and production. His expanded role is designed to ensure the company can deliver on its ambitious contracts with industry titans like Lockheed Martin, RTX, Aston Martin, and Bugatti.

Scaling the Digital Factory

Having been with Divergent since its early days, Keller was instrumental in building the company's operational backbone. His deep experience, which includes leading complex product development at industrial giant Eaton Corporation, positions him to tackle the immense challenge of scaling a disruptive technology. He is now tasked with translating the potential of Divergent's manufacturing system into tangible, repeatable, and high-volume output.

"Cooper is a worldclass operator," said Lukas Czinger, CEO and Co-Founder of Divergent. "As a leader, he blends vision with operational precision to push our products, our processes and our teams to new levels of performance and excellence. I'm confident that Cooper taking the COO position strengthens our business – specifically, our ability to deliver products with unprecedented speed, adaptability, and quality."

This confidence is crucial as Divergent moves to expand its production capabilities. The company's DAPS™ (Divergent Adaptive Production System) is not just an incremental improvement on existing manufacturing methods; it is a complete reinvention of the industrial base, and scaling it requires a leader who can manage immense complexity while maintaining exacting standards.

The DAPS™ Revolution

At the heart of Divergent's strategy is DAPS™, the world's first end-to-end digital manufacturing platform. This integrated software-hardware solution combines AI-driven generative design, industrial-rate additive manufacturing (3D printing), and automated robotic assembly into a single, seamless system. The platform allows engineers to design, test, and manufacture complex metal structures at a fraction of the time and cost of traditional methods.

Its key advantage lies in its ability to create functionally integrated structures that are lighter, stronger, and more efficient. For example, the system's AI can design a vehicle chassis component that consolidates dozens of individual parts into one optimized piece. This not only reduces weight and improves performance but also dramatically simplifies the supply chain and assembly process. The system has already demonstrated its power by achieving a staggering 95% part-count reduction for a small UAS aerostructure for General Atomics and an 80% reduction for a legacy effector for Raytheon, a subsidiary of RTX.

While competitors like Carbon and Desktop Metal are also making strides in additive manufacturing, Divergent's holistic, end-to-end approach sets it apart. By controlling the entire process from digital design to final assembly, the company offers a complete factory-in-a-box solution that is highly adaptable and scalable.

Forging Strategic Alliances

Divergent's technology is not theoretical; it is already being proven in some of the world's most demanding applications. The company has delivered over 600 unique parts for a roster of blue-chip clients, demonstrating the platform's versatility.

In the automotive sector, Divergent's partnerships are reshaping the production of high-performance vehicles. The company is working with Aston Martin on the DBR22, providing a 3D-printed aluminum rear subframe that is both lightweight and stiff. A foundational partnership with Bugatti will see DAPS™ used to design and manufacture key chassis and suspension components for the new Tourbillon hypercar, dramatically reducing weight. Similarly, a multi-year collaboration with McLaren is focused on using additive manufacturing to enhance the performance and efficiency of its next-generation supercars.

In the defense and aerospace sectors, the implications are even more profound. Divergent is working with General Atomics Aeronautical Systems (GA-ASI) to fabricate structures for unmanned aircraft systems (UAS). Its collaboration with RTX is focused on re-engineering naval and maritime defense products, modernizing decades-old designs for scalable production in under five months. These partnerships underscore DAPS's potential to strengthen the U.S. industrial base, offering a path to more resilient and agile supply chains for critical defense systems.

Fueling the Industrial Ascent

This rapid technological and commercial progress is backed by significant financial firepower. Having achieved unicorn status in 2022, Divergent has raised a total of $828 million. Its most recent Series E round in September 2025 brought in $290 million at a formidable $2.3 billion valuation. The round was led by Rochefort Asset Management, an investor focused on defense manufacturing, highlighting the strategic importance of Divergent's role in that sector.

This influx of capital is earmarked for scaling manufacturing capacity and expanding the team to support its growing list of aerospace and defense programs. Keller's appointment is a direct result of this strategic imperative to put that capital to work efficiently.

"I'm honored to step into the role of Chief Operating Officer," said Keller. "With multiple customer programs already in production and more in development, we are uniquely positioned to scale our manufacturing system into a globally secular advantage... I look forward to driving the operational excellence required to expand our capabilities and deliver at increasing scale."

As industries grapple with the demand for greater agility, supply chain resilience, and sustainability, Divergent’s model presents a compelling solution. By digitizing the entire manufacturing lifecycle, the company is not just building parts; it is building the 21st-century industrial base, one optimized component at a time.