DoraHacks organises intensive collaborative programming challenges internationally, having launched with assistance from Tsinghua University in 2014.

DoraHacks, a China-based collaborative computer programming organiser launched with support from Tsinghua University, has raised an undisclosed sum in a round led by bitcoin and computing technology developer Bitmain Technologies.

Other investors in the round were not disclosed.

Founded in 2014, DoraHacks organises collaborative coding conventions known as hackathons in which developers work intensively to achieve challenging objectives within a short space of time. It has so far arranged more than 100 hackathons involving more than 10,000 participants.

DoraHacks will…