"2006-2010: The US Cleantech Bubble" -- Are we Headed toward a Green Bubble? is the name of an article by Julie Bennet in Entrepreneur Magazine in 2010, which provided interesting facts and opinions regarding green technology markets. Bennet suggested that the Cleantech bubble deflated during the Sub-Prime Crisis in 2007, and the green market was in a pivotal time in 2010. Seduced by visions of making a fortune while saving the planet, venture capitalists invested a then-record $123 million in the first round of fundraising for 16 such companies in 2006. By 2008, they sank nearly $1billion in over 100 new clean-energy companies. It turned into a fad, and the bubble popped.