Backing Row64: Real-time, Interactive business intelligence
The Origin Story
When we first met the Row64 team, their vision stood out as bold and timely: to harness their deep expertise in High-Performance Computing (HPC) and visualization to bring high-throughput, high frame-rate, low latency real-time rendering pipelines and tools to the world of big data visualization and business intelligence.
At the core of their innovation is an accelerated stack — a vertically integrated software and hardware architecture optimized for today’s massively parallel GPUs and multi-threaded CPUs. This stack enables radically faster performance across the entire data-to-visualization pipeline, allowing users to interact with complex, high-volume datasets in real time.
By leveraging this stack, Row64 is addressing one of the most urgent challenges in modern business intelligence: data explosion. With global data generation projected to exceed 400 million terabytes per day (equivalent to 20 trillion high-res photos), such a breakthrough is essential for maintaining a competitive edge in the era of real-time decision-making and operations.
The Row64 founding team brings a rare blend of technical depth and creative vision, shaped by decades of experience across film, gaming, graphics, and data science. CEO and Co-Founder Marc Stevens and his team held executive roles at Microsoft, Avid, and Autodesk, contributing to groundbreaking projects like the first CGI dinosaurs in Jurassic Park and the creation of 3D character engines for Electronic Arts, Nintendo, and Sony.
The Lightbulb Moment
Despite these successes, Marc and co-founder Michael identified a recurring pain point: the tools available for large-scale data analysis were slow, clunky, and fundamentally out of sync with modern compute capabilities. Drawing on the previous GPU revolution that reshaped digital content creation and production, they saw a parallel disruptive and overdue opportunity to transform data analytics.
That lightbulb moment, combined with their track record in VFX, gaming, and large-scale data systems, compelled them to build Row64. In fact, the name Row64 reflects both the team’s low-level ”direct-to-hardware” technical heritage and a clear vision for the future of data. It references the shift to 64-bit architectures, which enabled systems to break free from the memory and data row limits that once constrained large-scale processing and ushered in the current era of modern computing.
As a result, they found their new mission: to bring the real-time interactivity and performance of high-throughput engines to business intelligence and data visualization.
Why Row64 is Different – A New Category of Visual BI
Row64 isn’t another BI tool with a polished dashboard, it’s a fundamental reinvention of the entire business intelligence stack from back end to front end. Built for the real-time, interactive era, Row64 combines the raw power of high-performance computing with a visual experience designed for immediacy, scale, and fluidity. This is visual BI, reimagined from the ground up.
Traditional BI platforms are cobbled together from legacy components, pieced together SQL backends, HTML dashboards, and JavaScript-based charts with each layer adding friction, latency, and constraints. They summarize only slices of data, reprocess and respond slowly and poorly scale. In contrast, Row64 offers a fully integrated, compute-native architecture that accelerates every stage of the pipeline, from raw data ingestion to rich, dynamic visualization.
This architecture enables real-time performance at unprecedented scale: live updates, record-level interactivity, and seamless exploration across billions of rows. What once took minutes of pre-aggregation or backend processing now happens instantly, transforming how teams ask questions and make decisions.
This isn’t an incremental improvement, it’s a category breakthrough. Just as GPUs redefined rendering in gaming and VFX, Row64 brings that same performance leap to business intelligence. It's not just about seeing your data; it's about feeling it respond in real time.
You can see Row64 in action and explore the power of Row64’s real-time interactivity across massive streaming datasets for examples in:
Cybersecurity: Real-time threat detection and response at scale
Game Demo: High-frequency, high-fidelity telemetry in action
Fleet Management: Instant insights across billions of records in seconds
How Row64 Helps Customers Win
Row64’s key innovations and benefits are impacting business in radical ways today, and include:
Hardware-accelerated, High Performance: Hybrid GPU/CPU processing, native WASM + WebGL native browser rendering, delivers record-level updates in sub-millisecond time.
Integrated, Easy to Use, Dynamic Environment: Not just dashboards, but full interactivity for “what-if” scenario planning, cross-dataset formulas, and real-time decisions with intuitive Excel-like UI and extensive scripting support.
Multimodal Data Support: From csv sales reports to GIS, 2D & 3D file types, Row64 enables detailed visual analysis of structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data at massive scale
Easily Integrates into Existing Data Pipelines & Infrastructure: It also integrates easily into existing IT environments, data warehouses, and pipelines, including Apache Kafka for real-time, low latency analytics.
True Scalability: Built from the ground up to push the boundaries of scalability and real-time performance, Row64’s Web Assembly (WASM) and WebGL native browser front-end leverage parallel processing and hardware acceleration to enable scalability that grows with customer's needs.
These technical breakthroughs are already translating directly into game-changing customer outcomes, some real-world examples include:
City Government: Once relied on siloed systems and outdated reports. Now, with Row64, urban planners can visualize and interact with every hydrant, streetlight, and sewer pipe—live and geospatially. It empowers the planners and engineers to visualize infrastructure in real time and coordinate maintenance schedules with precision
Global Toy & Entertainment Company: Previously stuck with Excel and Power BI limits and having to wait for months of IT to get the data pipeline ready, and hours of re-processing time, business users can now load thousands of retailer point-of-sale feeds and perform deep analysis in seconds.
Gaming Leader: Enables real-time multilingual sentiment analysis and in-game content optimization. Creative teams can test hypotheses and act in hours—not weeks.
Why We Are Convinced
At Galaxy Interactive, we invest in the technologies reshaping how we live, work, and interact—across digital and physical realms. Our focus spans interactive content, spatial computing, edge AI, and real-time data infrastructure, across the compute stack—from edge silicon to the cloud.
Our conviction and investment in Row64 are grounded in three core pillars: people, product, and market potential.
People: The founding team doesn’t just understand high-performance computing and data—they’ve built category-defining tools across film, gaming, and enterprise software. They’re uncompromising on performance and obsessive about the end-user experience.
Product: We’ve experienced the product firsthand and heard directly from customers. Massive datasets—hundreds of millions of rows—are rendered fully interactive, updating at up to 1,000 frames per second, streamed from systems like Kafka and Flink, and visualized with near-surgical precision. One customer called it “totally disruptive.” We agree.
Potential: The timing is right, and the market is hungry. Enterprises are demanding real-time, high-fidelity insights across fragmented data systems. And the compute layer has caught up—GPUs, once exclusive to gaming, are now foundational in enterprise and cloud environments. Row64 is uniquely positioned to capitalize on this inflection point.
We’re proud to lead Row64’s Seed round alongside Differential Ventures and Alumni Ventures. In a world where data is growing exponentially, Row64 isn’t just helping organizations keep pace—it’s redefining what’s possible. It delivers real-time, visual intelligence at the speed of thought—and opens a new frontier in business decision-making.
If you’re building with real-time data or just curious about the capabilities of Row64, reach out to the team here.
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