Wishpot gets an additional $1M in funding and Rob Monster takes a board seat.

Curious Office has been an early investor since Sept 2007 - looks like they converted into this A round.

Andy Sack and Chris Devore (both of Judy's Book) have created a $2M fund and co-working space for new internet founders. Very nice idea. I like the investment tie they are making between founders in the fund to get a pool of equity in each other's companies (I talked about doing this last year - but these guys are actually putting $ behind it).

(I thought I faved this yesterday - disappeared?)

It's great to see a Seattle-based startup getting such big A-round. blist will certainly be a serious competitor in the online database market.

Interesting timing. Following the recent Seattle Tech Startups thread bemoaning the poor quality of startup-friendliness in Seattle. It may be that we're at an inflection point between mediocre to getting pretty-good.

Quoted: Many communities dream of becoming the next Silicon Valley. But Seattle is actually doing it.

Seattle incubator. SEOMoz, Shelfari are among their companies.

Sat on the plane next to Bill Heston on the way down to San Francisco today.

Quoted: Cedar Grove Investments is a private early stage venture capital firm

Mike and I worked on the first release of Excel. Now he's partners with Pete Higgins at Second Ave (VC).

Rich Tong weighs in on the Seattle 63 (Web 2.0 companies).

He rates Blue Dot a "delicious clone". Ouch.