Yesterday, Earth2Tech delivered some heartening news for folks following the Green Tech industry.  In the first week of 2010 nine firms managed to raise at least $113 million!  Here are some of the details:

Clean Power Finance, which connects residential solar installers and developers online, says it’s raised $6.9 million in a round co-led by Claremont Creek Ventures and Clean Pacific Ventures, and including Sand Hill Angels and investor Gary Kremen. The San Francisco-based company says it will use the funds for more development of its software and to move into other clean power verticals (maybe wind?).

Founded in 2002, Innovalight, a thin-film solar startup developing photovoltaic silicon ink, says it has raised a new round of $18 million from EDB Investments (EDBI) of Singapore, Vertex Venture Holdings, the venture subsidiary of Temasek Holdings, Apax Partners, ARCH Venture Partners, Convexa Capital, Harris & Harris Group, Sevin Rosen Funds and Triton Ventures. Whew. That’s a lot of investors and the company has raised a whole lot of money over the past few years, including $5 million in debt financing, $5 million in equipment lease financing, a $28 million Series C round, and $14 million in its Series A and B rounds. Innovalight says the new funding will be used to “expand the company’s proprietary silicon ink production for customers.”

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