In the morning after the acquisition of Twitter (now X), reporters faced two men with boxes outside the company’s headquarters. Someone entered as a recently retarded Twitter engineer ”Rahul. ”
His real name is Rahul Sonwalkar, but the farce became viral. Accumulated with the reputation of his character when he went to the Bahamas Play a designated FTX worker Immediately afterwards, the encryption exchange broke.
While he never worked for X or FTX, he is actually very technical. He spent several years of work as an engineer in Uber.
Even passed Y Combinator at that time, working on a Logistics boot that later dissolved Before rotating.
The 27 -year -old wants to draw attention to his most serious effort: Julius, the start of the AI data analyst he founded about two years ago.
The tool, which can analyze and depict extensive data sets and perform predictor modeling from natural language prompts, has attracted over 2 million registered users.
“I wanted to build something that would make the science of data very accessible to everyone,” Sonwalkar told TechCrunch.
While some of Julius’ functions are also available in Chatgpt, Anthropic’s Claude and Google Gemini, Iavor Bojinov, Assistant Professor at Harvard Business School, liked the tool that had to convince Sonwalker to modify Julius specifically for the new HBS lesson name Data science and AI for leaders.
“We had made a comparison of head-to-head on various platforms, including Chatgpt and Julius ended up performing the best,” Bojinov told Techcrunch.
The adoption of HBS, an educational institution raised 1,000 future business leaders annuallyIt is clearly a big victory for July, which is today a group of 12 employees.
Sonwalker also set a round of seed led by Talia Goldberg of Bessemer Venture, TechCrunch learned from someone familiar with the deal. But Sonwalker would not discuss the details.
Bessemer did not respond to a request for comments.
Was the acrobatic doors of Sonwalker’s “Rahul Ligma” open doors when they were first built in July?
“A little in the first few days, but to be honest, not so recently,” he said.
