MapD has launched its GPU Database and Visual Analytics platform and announced the closing of a $10M Series A round led by Vanedge Capital with participation from Verizon Ventures and Nvidia, joining earlier investor GV (formerly Google Ventures).

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.