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Congrats to Avi and Andrew for getting funded. I'm saying congrats to Vancouver's innovation with this post as well, and it's great to see that local Vancouver VC firm Ventures West did this deal.

Paul Kedrosky points to Om's scoop, and calls DabbleDB the first Enterprise 2.0 company. I suspect Paul's position at VenturesWest had a thing or two with making this deal happen.

I planned to post on this tomorrow, but I see the news is already breaking, and Om has the scoop: the venture firm Ventures West in Vancouver has closed a Series A financing round of Dabble DB. He has it mostly right, including the huge opportunity for Andrew Catton's and Avi Bryant's startup. Let's call this the first truly "Enterprise 2.0" company.

One small correction/comment: The investment size is only Om's guess, and the actual dollars will not be announced -- whether larger or smaller. 

Can the local venture and innovation communities continue to churn out winners? I hope so :P

I met Avi over 2 years ago when I had just come back to Vancouver, at Roland's Geek Dinner (yes, where I met Roland for the first time in person). Avi promptly moved off to Amsterdam so I didn't see much of him for quite some time.

Then he and Andrew were back in Vancouver, getting interested in the Innovation Commons, hanging out at our local "third place", Take 5 Cafe, and generally being part of the very interesting Vancouver scene that continues to build.

Avi wowed the computer science nerds at the Open Source CMS Summit talking about Smalltalk/Seaside (see the video by Roland), and then thanks to coming out to Northern Voice's MooseCamp, landed a spot on Under the Radar. And then winning best in show at UTR, showing that made-in-Canada can easily go down to the Valley and kick butt.