The morning after Elon Musk’s Twitter acquisition in 2022 (now X), journalists found two men with boxes outside the company’s headquarters. One appeared as the recently fired Twitter engineer “Rahul Ligma”.
His real name is Rahul Sonwalkar, but the joke went viral. He piled up with the notoriety of his character when he went to the Bahamas to play a ftx worker dismissed just after that exchange of cryptocurrencies.
While he never worked for X or FTX, he is really a great coach. He spent several years working as an engineer at Uber.
He has just used through and Combinator at that time, working on a logistics startup that he later discarded before pivotar.
The 27 -year -old chickens to draw attention to their most serious effort: Julius, the startup of the AI data analyst founded about two years ago.
The tool, which can analyze and visualize extensive data sets and predictive models of performance of natural language indications, has attracted more than 2 million registered users.
“I wanted to build something that made data science very accessible to everything,” Sonwalkar said to TechCrunch.
While part of Julius’ functionality is also available in Chatgpt, Claude de Anthrope and Gemini de Google, Iavor Bojinov, assistant professor at Harvard Business School (HBS), he liked the tool that had to convince Sonwalkar to modify July specifically for the new required course of HBS called leaders.
“We had made a face to face in a series of platforms, including Chatgpt, and Julius finished the best performance,” Bojinov told TechCrunch.
The adoption of HBS, an educational institution that generates approximately 1,000 future business leaders annually, is clearly a great victory for Julius, which is currently a team of 12 employees.
Sonwalkar has also raised a round of seeds directed by Talia Goldberg by Bessemer Venture Partners, Techcrunch, learned from someone familiar with the agreement. But Sonwalkar would discuss the details.
Bessemer did not respond to a request for comments.
Did you open “Rahul Ligma” doors of Sonwalkar when I was building Julius for the first time?
“A little in the first days, but to be honest, not so much recently,” he said.