by Brian Solis
Blist, one of the companies we’re evaluating for the upcoming Under the Radar Conference, The Business of Web Apps: Where the Web Goes to Work, today announced it has secured $6.5 million in Series A financing from Frazier Technology Ventures and Morgenthaler Ventures.
The company provides combines a cloud database software solution and a social network around content.
Blist makes relational database creation and management as easy as using a spreadsheet, and after creating my first “blist,” I have to agree. blist’s visually rich and intuitive UI enables non-technical people to work with data – it’s just simply elegant.
blist makes it easy for just about anyone with the slightest experience in building a database, (think Act, Access, Goldmine, Filemaker in software terms) to create private or collaborative databases for anything from party or wedding guest lists, fantasy football statistics, and personal finances to professional information such as sales contacts, project management sheets, campaign tracking, status reports, among others.
A community of data and data templates allow you to get started right away, which keeps you from reinventing the wheel and duplicating data entry work if it already exists. For example, there’s a dashboard component that allows you to see not only your files, but also those made public by other users. Cool idea for polling and stats.
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Discussion
Can you really see anyone using this? I think the geeks are gonna love this – a nice little market niche nonetheless.