Vireo Ventures has led a pre-seed round in Invertix, a Munich-based startup building autonomous AI agents for renewable energy operators, with participation from Italian Founders Fund and a syndicate of energy and AI angel investors.
The company says it already manages more than 1.8 GW of solar capacity through its AI platform and is working on commercial opportunities representing more than 10 gigawatts.
Founded in February 2026 by Joseph Perrotta and Kaan Durmaz, Invertix has developed a suite of AI agents that integrate operational data from renewable energy assets and automate tasks including monitoring, maintenance scheduling, and fault detection. The company claims its system can be fully deployed in approximately 60 days from contract signature.
The product targets a long-standing bottleneck in the sector.
"We understood that there's a huge problem inside of energy companies, where all of the data is very unstructured and put inside of silos," Perrotta tells Impact Loop.
The Munich company's architecture combines several AI models. It uses Claude for reasoning tasks on energy asset data, Mistral for document OCR, and smaller models fine-tuned on energy production data to clean sensor readings and fill gaps where hardware has failed or gone offline.
Perrotta identifies three core technical challenges the company is working to solve: legacy software integration, workflow mapping within energy businesses, and what he calls context engineering – the problem of giving AI agents consistent, accurate information across an organisation without enabling them to act outside their operational boundaries.
"Context engineering is, I think, the most frontier part of the problems that I just mentioned, as you're dealing with a very sensitive asset. Energy assets are very sensitive," he says.
The founding team's customer discovery process was intensive.
"I had bots writing on every email of every person in the energy field. I was banned from LinkedIn and from WhatsApp," Perrotta says. "We had over 500 interviews in the span of like one month and a half."
The company says it is already generating around €200,000 in annual recurring revenue (ARR).
The pre-seed capital will go primarily towards AI and software engineering hires, with sales headcount to follow. "We need frontier people into the AI space," Perrotta says. "And they are expensive, unfortunately, but they're very smart."
Vireo Ventures is a Berlin-based energy-tech VC investing in seed and pre-seed startups focused on the electrification and digitalisation of the energy and mobility sectors. The VC closed a €50m “electrification” fund in September 2025 to back exactly this category of startup.
Italian Founders Fund, managed by Koinos Capital SGR, invests in founders with Italian roots and backs early-stage startups internationally.