Here's a quick news update on three startups in the Vator.tv community.First up is Snooth, the social shopping site for wine enthusiasts, which last week raised a $1 million angel round that valued the company at 3x its previous valuation. That followed a $300,000 seed round in Dec. 2006. Investors in this round include Ryan Moynagh, a former Merrill Lynch investment banker who now runs Equatorial Partners, a Singapore based Oil and Gas Advisory firm, and Will Armitage, of the London-based IG Group. The new funds will be used to scale the development team, integrate the current backlog of merchants that have already partnered with Snooth, and add new retailers worldwide, according to spokesman Colin Nagy, who alerted  to the ... [ Read more ]