In the morning after Twitter (currently X) by Elon Musk (currently X), reporters met two men with boxes outside the company’s headquarters. One introduced himself as a recently released Twitter engineer “Satisfied with Ligma. ”
His real name is Rahul Sonwalkar, but the joke became viral. He made the publicity of his character when he went to the Bahams Play in a ftx dismissed employee Immediately after this exchange of cryptocurrencies, she imploded.
Although he has never worked for X or FTX, it is in fact very technical. He spent several years working as an engineer in Uber.
At that point, he even went through a combinator, working on a logistics startup, which later scrapped Before trading.
The 27-year-old desires to listen to his more serious undertaking: Julius, AI data analyst, who founded about two years ago.
A tool that may analyze and visualize extensive data sets and perform predictive modeling from natural language hints attracted over 2 million registered users.
“I wanted to build something that would make learning to be very available to everyone,” said Sonwalkar Techcrunch.
While some Julius’ functions are also available at chatgpt, anthropic’s claude and Google’s Gemini, Iavor Bojinov, assistant to the professor at Harvard Business School (HBS), it liked the tool that he needed to persuade Sonwalkar to change Julius Data Science and AI for leaders.
“We carried out a comparison in one place on many platforms, including chatgpt, and Julius achieved the best place,” said Bojinov from Techcrunch.
Adoption by HBS, an educational institution that reproduces 1000 future business leaders a 12 monthsIt is clearly a big win for Julius, which is currently a team of 12 employees.
Sonwalkar also raised a round of seeds led by Talia Goldberg of Bessemer Venture Partners, TechCrunch pulled from the one that knows the contract. But Sonwalkar wouldn’t discuss the details.
Bessemer didn’t answer the request for comment.
Does “Rahul Ligma” Sonwalkar squeeze out that he opened the door when he was building Julius for the first time?
“A bit at the beginning, but to be honest, not so much recently,” he said.