Nvidia blogs - In addition to the $100,000 investment we awarded, MapD has won early backing from Google Ventures and Vanedge Capital in Vancouver… Now MapD’s Mostak is readying the launch of his company’s first product early next year — an appliance that will allow companies to turn the terabytes of data they’ve gathered into instant visual intelligence.

Data Informed - MapD uses graphics processing units (GPUs) to crunch Big Data — the sort that usually only rooms full of servers are able to do, but \"at a fraction of the price of what a big cluster [of servers] would cost, with much greater performance.\"