MapD Lands $10M Series A

What does MapD do?

MapD, is the fastest big data exploration platform. The company builds a big data analytics platform which can visualize and query big data over 100 times faster than other systems. The company powers the huge parallelism of commodity GPUs for the execution SQL queries over multibillion row datasets with response times of a milliseconds, and optionally produces results through the native graphic GPUs’ pipeline. Based on the use case, this platform can be used as a standalone lighting fast SQL database or with 3^rd party visualizations tools.

How much MapD was funded?

MapD raised$10M in Series A on March 30, 2016 from GPU Ventures, GV, Verizon Ventures and Vanedge Capital.

Previous funding

$2M from October 14, 2014 and closed on June, 2014 from Nvidia, Vanedge Capital and GV.

What is next for MapD?

The company has launched its GPU Database. The latest funding raised will be used for sales and hiring.

More about MapD

The company was founded on September 1, 2013 by Thomas Graham and Todd Mostak. It has its headquarters in San Francisco, CA. This is a vertically integrated end to end solution for visualization, data querying and analysis. The company uses immense computational power of next gen parallel hardware such as Intel Many Core Processor, graphic processing units for the formation of the backbone of a data processing and visualization ending, querying features of a traditional RDBMS  and data process with advanced analytics and visualization features. The company was founded when its founder Mostak was working on his thesis about social media in the Arab Spring, where he realized there are no visualization tools or databases fast enough to do the type of analysis he requires. So he decided to make one of his own take a class at MIT. The result of it was the GPU powered database and analytics suite which is now called as the MapD Technologies Inc.