Ai Data Analyst Startup Julius Nabs $10m Seed Round

Julius AI, a startup that describes itself arsenic an AI information analyst, announced it has raised a $10 cardinal seed round led by Bessemer Venture Partners.

Horizon VC, 8VC, Y Combinator, nan AI Grant accelerator participated successful nan information on pinch respective high-profile angel investors, including Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas, Vercel CEO Guillermo Rauch, and Twilio co-founder Jeff Lawson, among others.

Founder Rahul Sonwalkar launched Julius aft graduating from Y Combinator successful 2022, and pivoting distant from nan logistics startup he’d been building during nan accelerator program.

Julius is designed to enactment for illustration a information intelligence by analyzing and visualizing extended datasets and past performing predictive modeling from earthy connection prompts. Even pinch functionality akin to that recovered successful ChatGPT, Anthropic’s Claude, and Google’s Gemini, Julius has carved retired its ain niche. The institution said it has much than 2 cardinal users and generates much than 10 cardinal visualizations.

“The easiest measurement to usage Julius is to conscionable talk to it,” Julius AI laminitis Rahul Sonwalkar told TechCrunch successful an earlier interview. “You tin talk to nan AI for illustration you would talk to an expert connected your team, and nan AI, for illustration a quality would go, tally nan codification and do nan study for you.”

Questions that Julius tin reply and coming successful a floor plan include: “Can you visualize really gross and nett income correlate for different industries successful China versus US?”

Julius’ specialization successful information subject moreover caught nan oculus of Harvard Business School (HBS) professor Iavor Bojinov past year. Bojinov was truthful impressed he asked Sonwalkar to modify Julius specifically for HBS’ caller required people called Data Science and AI for Leaders.

“People told america you’re not going to succeed,” Sonwalkar said astir building a merchandise that’s akin to features disposable from nan foundational exemplary companies.  “What we recovered was that being focused connected a usage lawsuit is really important.”

While going done YC, Sonwalkar besides masterminded a viral prank. The greeting aft Elon Musk acquired Twitter (now X), reporters encountered 2 men pinch boxes extracurricular of nan company’s headquarters. One of nan 2 men was Sonwalkar, who introduced himself arsenic a precocious laid-off Twitter technologist “Rahul Ligma.” 

Despite immoderate notoriety gained from nan stunt, Somwalkar insists that his startup is simply a batch much attention-worthy.

“I don’t deliberation galore group cognize maine for that anymore,” he told TechCrunch successful an earlier interview. “I get recognized for Julius a batch much now.”