A-list tech blogger Om Malik at Gigaom, blogged about the Netgear (NTGR) earnings release yesterday and used something you don't see too often - a chart that wasn't a stock price chart. The chart used fundamental data on revenues and margins from the Gridstone Research platform. Charts like this and with deeper data, take seconds to create on the Gridstone platform.

We are thrilled that our charts are helping bloggers and business journalists report better stories. If you write about stocks in the Technology or Consumer sectors (soon all sectors) and if you think a chart says it much better than words, talk to us .

We closed a Series B round led by Helion Ventures, with existing investors Charles River and Maverick Capital participating. The press release is here .

With this round Ashish Gupta of Helion joins our board. Ashish is an ex-geek (Ph.D. Stanford, IBM Research), ex-entrepreneur (junglee.com which sold to amazon.com), long-time angel investor turned VC. His close familiarity with the problem of creating useful structured information from unstructured information and his long experience of helping tech startups will be very welcome. Izhar Armony of CRV and Dave Singer of Maverick have been great board members. We are glad to be able to add someone like Ashish to the board.

We are gearing up for some major announcements this summer. So watch this space. 

Ft.com has a nice widget that is very recent by my reckoning. If you hover over the name of a public company in any article on ft.com, a nice “chartlet” pops up. If you click on the company it takes you to the company in the Company Research part of their website.

I thought the pop-up was quite cool. It performs well, looks nice. It could even have been useful to readers. If I have one problem with it, it is the choice of the chart – a daily price chart.