Vireo Ventures backs Invertix’s €1.7M pre-seed to deploy AI workers for renewable energy — TFN

• Invertix, a Munich-based firm, has raised €1.7 million in pre-seed funding led by Vireo Ventures
• The corporate’s AI programs handle greater than 1.8 GW of photo voltaic capability
• Invertix was based after greater than 5,000 interviews with European vitality operators revealed a transparent downside: photo voltaic and wind capability is rising sooner than the workforce wanted to function it

Invertix, a German cleantech startup, has secured €1.7 million in pre-seed funding led by Vireo Ventures.

The Italian Founders Fund and angel buyers in vitality and AI additionally participated within the spherical.

The Munich-based startup, based in 2026 by Joseph Perrotta and Kaan Durmaz, builds AI programs that combine with present software program for renewable vitality property and might carry out duties autonomously, reasonably than simply offering knowledge to human groups.

After speaking with greater than 5,000 vitality operators, asset managers, and impartial energy producers, the founders noticed a transparent hole: there aren’t sufficient expert employees, workloads continue to grow, and present software program instruments aren’t sufficient.

Invertix goes past monitoring software program to truly finishing up duties by itself. As a substitute of simply alerting engineers to issues, its AI employees deal with alarms, examine upkeep data, ship out responses, and maintain compliance data without having folks to step in.

“We aren’t constructing AI to interchange folks. We’re constructing it to fill a spot that’s already holding again the vitality transition. Europe is commissioning photo voltaic, wind, and storage sooner than it will probably rent and prepare the engineers wanted to function them. Expert operational expertise is in brief provide, and the workload is piling up on the groups already in place. Invertix’s AI employees tackle the repetitive operational duties, so human specialists can deal with the selections that really require them,” says Perrotta.

The platform connects with SCADA programs, upkeep administration software program, ERP platforms, and vitality and climate knowledge feeds. It often takes about 60 days to completely arrange after signing a contract. Invertix’s essential clients are photo voltaic and wind operators, asset managers, and infrastructure homeowners who handle massive renewable portfolios throughout Europe.

The corporate faces competitors from established platforms resembling Greenbyte, Powerfactors, and Omexom, which provide efficiency monitoring and analytics for renewable property. What units Invertix aside is its shift from merely offering insights to truly taking motion, eliminating the necessity for people to hold out duties reasonably than simply bettering experiences.

Invertix at present manages over 1.8 GW of photo voltaic capability by way of its AI employees, which the corporate claims is a primary at this scale within the renewable vitality sector. Invertix can be in business discussions for an extra 10 GW of capability.

“The renewable vitality sector wants greater than incremental software program enhancements. Invertix is tackling that with a group that’s hungry, bold, deeply targeted on buyer worth, and already translating imaginative and prescient into early outcomes. That’s why we led their pre-seed,” says Felix Krause, managing associate at Vireo Ventures.

The recent funds will go towards three essential targets: dashing up platform growth, rising the group in AI engineering, software program, product, and gross sales, and constructing a stronger business presence throughout Europe. Invertix additionally plans to develop its AI employees past photo voltaic to wind, battery storage, and grid operations.