Julius AI, a startup that describes himself as an AI data analyst, announced that he had raised a $ 10 million seed round under the leadership of Besmer venture partners.
Horizon VC, 8VC, Y Combinator, AI Grant Accelerator participated in the round with several high-profile Angel investors, including Perplexity CEO Arvind Srinivas, Versel CEO Guillermo Raach and Twilio co-founder Jeff Lawson.
Founder Rahul Sonwalkar launched Julius after graduating from Y Combinator in 2022, and he was constructing during an accelerator program after going away from the logistics startup.
Julius is designed to work like a data scientist by analyzing and imagining a broad dataset and then a future modeling by natural language signals. Even with the functionality found in Cloud of Anthropropic and Gemini of Google, Julius carved his own niche. The company said it has more than two million users and produces more than 10 million visualizations.
Julius AI founder Rahul Sonwalkar told Tekkachchan in an first interview, “The easiest way to use Julius is that Rahul’s founder Rahul Sonwalkar told Techchchan in an interview first.” You can talk to AI as if you will talk to an analyst of your team, and AI will run for you. “
Julius can answer in a chart and present in the presenting questions: “Can you imagine how revenue and net income for various industries in China vs America is correlated?”
Julius’s expertise in Data Science also caught the eyes of Harvard Business School (HBS) professor Evor Bojinov last year. Bojinov was so impressed that he asked Sonwalkar to amend Data Science and AI for leaders, especially for the new required course of HBS.
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“People told us that you are not going to succeed,” Sonwalk asked to make a product that is similar to the facilities available from basic model companies. “We found that it is really important to focus on the matter of an use.”
While going through YC, Sonwalkar also mastered a viral mischief. In the morning, Elon Musk, after acquiring Twitter (now X), reporters faced two people with boxes outside the company’s headquarters. One of the two people was Sonvokar, who introduced himself as a recently laid Twitter engineer “Rahul Ligma”.
Despite some notorious stunts, Somwalkar insisted that his startup is very noticeable.
“I don’t think many people know me for this,” he told Techcrunch in an earlier interview. “I am more recognized for Julius now.”
