Founders of Open Source Project Ray Launch Anyscale with $20.6M in Funding to Democratize Distributed Programming

Anyscale, a distributed programming platform company, has secured $20.6M in Series A funding led by Andreessen Horowitz with participation from several other investors. The funding will support the expansion of Anyscale's leadership team and its contribution to the open source community. With this investment, Anyscale aims to simplify distributed programming using Ray, a power tool that allows applications to be scaled out from a laptop to a cluster without requiring in-house expertise or resources. This simplification enables software developers and machine learning engineers to scale their applications quickly and easily, effectively leveling the playing field for organizations to leverage advanced technologies like machine learning. The company's mission is to help more developers, enterprises, and organizations solve problems without needing scalable infrastructure expertise, and with this funding, Anyscale will fortify its ability to continuously improve Ray and grow its team to achieve this goal.