Alibaba led the round as part of a deal that will give it access to NVXL's computing acceleration platform.

E-commerce group Alibaba has led a $20m series A round for NVXL Technology, a US-based developer of computing performance enhancement software, as part of a strategic collaboration between the companies.

NVXL has developed a storage and computing acceleration platform that can run on standard hardware and scale to virtualise the power required for a range of cloud-scale applications.

The technology is designed to handle low-level implementation details so developers and data scientists can be more productive. Alibaba will use NVXL’s…