Katana Graph, the high-performance scale-out graph processing, AI and analytics company, announced today that it has completed a $28.5 million Series A financing round led by Intel Capital with participation from existing and new investors including WRVI Capital, Nepenthe Capital, Dell Technologies Capital, and Redline Capital. Intel Capital investment director, Vijay Reddy, will join Katana Graph's board of directors, while Redline's managing partner Tatiana Evtushenkova, and Dell Technologies Capital president, Scott Darling, will join as board observers.

Katana Graph combines cutting edge algorithms, innovation in hardware acceleration, and emerging storage technologies to provide multiple orders of magnitude performance improvements to graph database, graph analytics, and graph mining workloads. Our elite team includes field leaders in graph algorithms, programming languages, runtimes, virtualization, and storage.