UC Berkeley-founded Anyscale has come out of stealth with the backing of investors including House Fund, Ant Financial and Intel Capital.

Anyscale, a US-based distributed computing framework developer spun out of University of California (UC), Berkeley, has attracted $20.6m in a series A round backed by the university-focused House Fund, TechCrunch reported on Tuesday. Venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz led the round, which also included Intel Capital, the corporate venturing subsidiary of semiconductor manufacturer Intel, and Ant Financial, the financial services affiliate of e-commerce group Alibaba. The round was filled out by 11.2 Capital and VC firms New Enterprise Associates and Amplify Partners. Anyscale is working on a platform for developing software applications that run from multiple computers simultaneously. Although the spinout has now emerged from stealth, details about the technology remain under wraps. The co-founders – including Michael Jordan, distinguished professor in UC Berkeley’s electrical engineering and computer sciences department – previously invented distributed computing tool Project Ray. Anyscale will use the funding to prepare its initial commercial offering for launch in 2020, potentially simplifying aspects of Project Ray so that they can be leveraged by users other than software engineers.

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