Intel Capital and Ant Financial have invested in a $20.6m round disclosed by the distributed programming app developer as it came out of stealth.

Anyscale, a US-based distributed computing framework developer, emerged from stealth on Tuesday with $20.6m in a series A round featuring Intel Capital, the corporate venturing subsidiary of semiconductor technology manufacturer Intel.

Venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz led the round, which included Ant Financial, the financial services affiliate of e-commerce group Alibaba, as well as 11.2 Capital, New Enterprise Associates, Amplify Partners and the University of California (UC), Berkeley-focused House Fund.

Anyscale is working on a platform called Ray that can…