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Blist Brings Bling to Databases and Spreadsheets

Blist

, a darling of the

DEMO 08 conference

, is announcing this morning that they have raised a $6m “A Round” of venture capital. Who knew that spreadsheets made social = big investments? That’s what they do, they make database information and spreadsheet social.

Wonder at their uninspired blog, wonder at their nerdish CEO’s executive background at Microsoft and Smith Barney but more than anything wonder at their DEMO video – embedded below. All the marketing issues aside, this company can wow a crowd with interface alone. Now they’ve got institutional backing to support their attack on a still-too inhospitable market, at least in the consumer software space.

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