According to Venture Beat, Map-D, a big data visualization startup, has raised $1.5 million from Nvidia, Google Ventures, and numerous angel investors.

mapD is a vertically-integrated end-to-end solution for data querying, visualization and analysis. It uses the immense computational power of next generation-parallel hardware like graphics processing units (GPUs) and Intel Many-Core processors (such as the Phi card) to form the the backbone of a data processing and visualization engine, marryings the data processing and querying features of a traditional RDBMS with advanced analytic and visualization features.