blist, Inc.
blist
- Conference
- DEMO 08
- Market Segment
- Consumer Software and Services
- Funding
- Private investors, less than $1 million
- Competitors
- Quickbase, Dabble DB, Zoho DB, MS Access, Filemaker Pro
- Product Description
- blist is the world’s easiest database. blist is all about discovering, sharing, publishing, distributing and subscribing to data at home and at work. blist’s strikingly visual and intuitive user interface enables non-technical people to work with data as powerfully as if they were supported by an IT staff — without requiring that resource. blist makes relational database creation and management as easy as using a spreadsheet.
- Market Opportunity
- $13.8 billion commercial relational database market (Gartner, 2005). $1.5 billion desktop database market, excluding use of Excel as a database. blist’s market opportunity includes the bottom 20% of the relational database market and the desktop database market.
- DEMO Says
- blist set out to create the “world’s easiest database” and it’s achieved that goal. Sure, you could argue that there are consumer database tools that are simple to use, but you’ll be hard pressed to find one that is simple and highly functional. The blist drag-and-drop user interface lets individuals build complex databases by thinking about their information and how they want to use it. The smart go-to-market strategy -- which turns non-paying consumers into for-fee business customers -- should set blist on course to be the preferred SaaS provider of database application services.
- Contact
- Mathew Johnson
- mathew.johnson@blist.com
- Company Address
-
101 Yesler Way, Suite 502
Seattle , WA 98104 - Phone
- 206-340-8008
- URL
- www.blist.com
- Corporate Officers
- Kevin Merritt, CEO & Founder
Frazier Technology Ventures and Morgenthaler Ventures have pumped $6.5 million into Blist, the Seattle startup that is developing new online tools that allow consumers and small businesses to quickly set up searchable databases on subjects ranging from wine collections to sales leads.
More than 10,000 people have signed up for the product since the company took the wraps off at the DEMO conference late last month in Palm Desert, Calif. This week, the company is rolling out additional functionality, including the ability to import data directly from Microsoft Excel.
A full product launch is slated in the next few weeks, with Chief Executive Kevin Merritt saying the ultimate goal is to create an "online social database" that appeals to mainstream users.
Nice presentation Kevin. I've enjoyed observing Blist's progress this past year, and it's a treat to see how well developed your flexible data base concept has become. Clay at www.yodio.com in Seattle
Nice looking idea functionally, but oh my, it is ugly! Please consult Tufte, Few, and GenoPal.
Welcome. Please react to what you've read or heard. Join Our Community or Log In to have your name appear with your comments about news, commentary and company profiles.
You only Join Our Community once, thereafter just Log In to comment anywhere. If you don't Log In, your comment will be credited to Anonymous. Comments are subject to DEMO's Terms and Conditions.
Log In | Join Our Community