Metris Energy raises £4m led by PT1 Ventures with Octopus Ventures
This article covers Metris Energy, a startup, which has raised £3.7m in a seed funding round and launched Metria AI, a new interface that automates operational tasks for energy asset managers. The development aims to unify fragmented asset data and support producers and asset managers in real-time control and monetisation of distributed energy assets.
Metris Energy has raised £3.7 million in a seed funding round and launched Metria AI, a new interface that automates complex operational tasks for energy asset managers. The raise and product update matter because they target a persistent problem in the energy sector: fragmented data across inverters, meters, SCADA, GIS and finance systems that prevents real-time control and monetisation of distributed assets.
Why it matters
Energy markets handle roughly $5 trillion of transactions each year, yet many producers rely on spreadsheets and disconnected systems to run operations. As grids decentralise and new revenue streams — flexibility, curtailment management, community energy and corporate PPAs — become available, the ability to see, reconcile and act on portfolio data in real time is increasingly valuable.
Metris says its platform provides a single, continuously updated record of every physical asset, enabling automation and more reliable AI-driven actions. If it succeeds, the platform could reduce operating costs and open market access for asset owners that lack integrated data workflows.
Inside the product
Launched in 2025, Metris began by consolidating scattered solar portfolio data into a single reliable record. The company has extended that into what it calls an intelligent system of record for energy, ingesting raw data from asset systems, metering, SCADA, GIS and energy markets.
On top of that data layer sit automated workflows, natural-language querying, a revenue hub and the newly released Metria AI — an interface intended to execute tasks that operations teams previously performed manually. The platform now claims to manage over 10,000 solar plants and around 500MW of capacity, having recorded 8x revenue growth year on year.
Metris plans to use the new funds to expand the platform’s agentic capabilities, extend support beyond solar into wind and combined heat and power systems, and push further into Europe with a particular focus on Germany.
Who are the investors?
Metris’s seed round was led by PT1 Ventures, Octopus Ventures, AENU and Blackfinch Ventures, with participation from Plug and Play and Love Ventures.
The raise brings total funding to date to £5.6 million. Investors point to the company’s rapid revenue growth, customer traction managing thousands of assets, and the strategic opportunity to productise a unified data layer that enables AI agents to act reliably across portfolios.
In the announcement, Fabian Koening, Partner at PT1 Ventures, said:
Natasha and the Metris Energy team are building the data infrastructure that makes energy assets visible in real-time, unlocking the opportunity for AI to transform the space. Their platform is already driving down the cost of operating asset portfolios at scale and opening market access to flexible energy contracts. Watching the team thrive over the past months only strengthened our conviction to back Metris Energy in this round.
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Founder perspective
Metris was founded on the belief that the winners of the energy transition will be organisations that can view, control and monetise capacity effectively, not simply those that own the most kilowatts. Co-founder and CEO Natasha Jones has steered the business from a narrow solar reconciliation product toward a broader ambition: becoming the unified data layer for the energy sector and making assets “visible in real time” to both humans and AI.
The company cites customer demand for real-time visibility and automated decision-making as the rationale behind Metria AI and the push into new asset classes.
The bigger picture
The deal sits at the intersection of two trends: growing investment in AI applied to operational problems, and the commercialisation of distributed energy assets across Europe. For UK and European energy producers, better data infrastructure is a prerequisite to accessing flexibility markets and new commercial arrangements.
Metris’s expansion into Germany and support for wind and CHP reflect the cross-border nature of these opportunities. The seed round illustrates continuing appetite from investors for startups that combine domain expertise in energy with AI-enabled automation — a pattern likely to shape future rounds and product road maps across the region.
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