It is not an easy time to be a cleantech venture capitalist. Still a hardened group of investors presses on. A handful of these determined GPs talk about what keeps them going.

Space‐Time Insight said it raised $14 million in Series B funding from new investors EnerTech Capital, Novus Energy Partners and ClearSky Power & Technology Fund, and existing investors Opus Capital Ventures and Start Up Farms International. Novus Founding Partner Martin Aares and ClearSky Power & Technology Fund Managing Director, James Huff will join the board, according to a press release.

EnerTech Capital has hired cleantech/energy technology executive Anne-Marie Bourgeois as vice president, investments. She is based in Montreal and will be responsible for leading EnerTech Capital’s investment activities in Québec as well as building relationships worlwide. PRESS RELEASE EnerTech Capital is pleased to announce they have hired leading cleantech/energy technology executive Anne-Marie Bourgeois as Vice [...]

EnerTech Capital has closed its lead investment in a $3.85 million financing round along with co-investor Export Development Canada in N-Dimension Solutions. The business is a smart Grid cyber security company based in Richmond Hill. PRESS RELEASE EnerTech Capital is pleased to announce the closing of its lead investment in a $3.85 million financing round [...]

Energy-focused investment firm EnerTech Capital has announced Scott Ungerer is to become chairman of a new working group for the National Smart Grid Interoperability Panel. He will lead the planning and implementation of the transition of the SGIP from a fully government-funded entity toward a privately-funded organization. PRESS RELEASE EnerTech Capital is pleased to announce [...]

Six-year-old CalStar Products, a Caledonia, Wis., company that makes low-energy, low-CO2 masonry products, has brought aboard Joel Rood as its CEO. Prior to joining CalStar, Rood was GM for CertainTeed Canada. CalStar is funded by the venture firms Nth Power, Westly Group, Foundation Capital, and EnerTech Capital. PRESS RELEASE: Joel Rood, a 15-year veteran of the building [...]

Current said it received funding of $13 million with new investors Business Media China AG and Espírito Santo Ventures joining existing investors Associated Partners, EnerTech Capital and Goldman Sachs in the round. PRESS RELEASE CURRENT Receives New Funding, Expands in Europe and Asia New Management Team Will Support Accelerated Growth Germantown, Md., September 13, 2011 [...]

FilterBoxx Water & Environmental Corp. has raised $9 million from XPV Capital and EnerTech Capital. The money will be used to expand into emerging areas, including tailings pond treatment and offshore oil and gas water treatment. Formed in 2001, FilterBoxx is a provider of packaged potable water and wastewater treatment systems to drilling, mining and pipeline camps, small municipalities, resorts and aboriginal communities.

Tangent Energy Solutions, which is backed by EnerTech Capital, has added three independent directors to its board: Nora Mead Brownell, Richard Grigg, and Donald Kendall. Grigg most recently served as President of FirstEnergy Utilities. Brownell is a former commissioner for the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission. Kendall has a background in power and energy industry financing. Tangent Energy is based in Kennett Square, Penn.

CalStar Products, Inc., a Newark, Calif.-based green building materials business, closed a $15 Million equity investment led by Nth Power. The round included new investors The Westly Group and Clearpoint Capital as well as continuing investors Foundation Capital and EnerTech Capital.