Intel, Juniper Networks and strategic partner IBM contributed to a round that increased Lightbend's overall funding to $52m.

Lightbend, the US-based creator of a development platform for distributed applications, has closed a $15m funding round featuring computing firm IBM, semiconductor producer Intel and networking equipment provider Juniper Networks.

Bain Capital Ventures, the venture capital arm of private equity firm Bain Capital, also toom part in the round, as did Blue Cloud Ventures and Shasta Ventures, while Intel and Juniper invested through subsidiaries Intel Capital and Juniper Ventures respectively.

Lightbend’s Reactive Platform facilitates the development of scalable, distributed apps…