These Berkeley PhD students and the co-founder of buzzy $6.2 billion Databricks are tackling the next really hard problem for big data programmers

On Wednesday, the startup Anyscale announced it raised $20.6 million in series A funding led by Andreessen Horowitz.
Anyscale was built from the open source project Ray, a distributed computing project that allows people to run large scale applications across many computers.
Anyscale was started by University of California, Berkeley graduate students and the co-founder of the big data startup Databricks, which is now valued at $6.2 billion.
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A new startup born from a research lab at the University of California, Berkeley just launched out of stealth with $20.6 million in funding.