The morning after the 2022 Twitter (now X) purchase of 2022, reporters encountered two men with boxes outside the company headquarters. One introduced himself as recently rested “Rahul Ligma” Twitter engineer.
His real name is Rahul Sonwalkar but the folly turned out viral.
While he has never worked for X, he is actually very technical. Sonwalker spent several years working as an engineer at Uber. He even passed through Y Combinator at the time, working on a logistical startup he later removed before he came to the stage.
The 27-year-old now wants to draw attention to his most serious effort: Julius, the beginning of the data analyst he founding about two years ago.
The tool, which can analyze and visualize extensive data and perform predictive modeling from natural language promotion, has attracted over 2 million registered users.
“I wanted to build something that would make the data science very accessible to everyone,” Sonwalkar Techcrunch told Sonwalkar.
While some of Julius’s functionalities are also available in Chatgpt, Anthropiku Claude and Google Gemini, i Zavi Bojinov, a Harvard Business Assistant Professor (HBS), liked the tool so much that Sonwalkar had to modify Julius specifically to HBS.
“We had made a head -to -head comparison on a number of platforms, including chatgpt, and Julius ended up doing the best,” Bojinov Techcrunch told.
Approval by HBS, an educational institution that creates about 1,000 future business leaders each year, is clearly a big victory for Julius, who is currently a team of 12 employees.
Sonwalkar has also set up a round of seed led by Talia Goldberg and Bessemer Venture Partners, Techcrunch learned from someone known by the deal. But Sonwalkar would not discuss the details.
Bessemer did not respond to a comment request.
Did Sonwalkar doors open “Rahul Ligma” when he was building Julius for the first time?
“A little in the early days, but to be honest, not so much lately,” he said.
