Deal catch-up

Here are the deals from the past fortnight that we hadn’t already talked about elsewhere:

• See GTM’s Funding Roundup for descriptions of deals for Solar Power Partners, Promethean Power Systems, Urbasolar, EcoMotors, Magnomatics, Redwood Systems, ICQ Group, and MyFC.  [10/13 update:  The latest Funding Roundup got posted as I was writing this column, and additionally mentioned Apollo Solar]

• JinkoSolar, a Chinese PV silicon wafer vendor, has raised a $35mm Series B.  China Israel Value Capital, Shenzhen Capital Group, and Pitango led the round.

• Solyndra came out of stealth and has raised a ton of money to date, but the rumor is that they didn’t raise as much as they wanted...

• Standard Solar raised an $8.5mm second round of financing, from Truecast Capital and “several private and institutional investors.”

• Wind power project developer OwnEnergy has raised an undisclosed amount of Series A financing led by EnerTech, and including existing investors Contour Venture Partners and the New York City Investment Fund.

• PE Week Wire is reporting that hybrid vehicle drive train developer ISE Corp has raised $5.5mm of a targeted $25mm Series D round, with Siemens Venture Capital joining return backers NGP and RockPort.

• Industrial Origami (developer of technology for the efficient production of sheet metal) has raised $17mm, led by Environmental Technologies Fund and including “wealthy individuals”.

• New Feature:  Downturn Watch: CTPHydrogen has closed its doors...  Merriman, Curhan Ford has shelved their plans for a cleantech hedge fund...  And VentureWire reports that Imperium Renewables has done a recap raise in order to pay off some of its creditors.  [10/13 update:  How could I forget to mention Schott Solar’s decision to delay their IPO?]

Finally, here’s a good column on how cleantech is benefiting from a good influx of managerial talent from other sectors these days.