Julius AI has secured $10 million in seed funding in a round led by Bessemer Venture Partners. The round included participation from Y Combinator, Horizon VC, 8VC, AI Grant, and notable angels, including Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas and Vercel CEO Guillermo Rauch. The funding will enable Julius AI to expand its AI-powered data analysis platform, which aims to make complex data science accessible to non-technical users by generating visualizations and insights from natural language prompts.

The startup was born after founder Rahul Sonwalkar pivoted from a logistics startup he had been building during his time at Y Combinator in 2022. Despite having some overlap in functionality with ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini, Julius AI has gained significant traction, as the platform claims that over 2 million users have created more than 10 million visualizations. To keep up with the demand, Julius writes approximately 4 million lines of code daily. This is roughly equivalent to 4,000 times the daily output of a skilled engineer.

Harvard Business School professor Iavor Bojinov has adopted Julius as a data analysis tool for the required "Data Science and AI for Leaders" course, which was taught to over 900 students last semester. In addition to this milestone, Julius AI claims its clients cover "Fortune 500 companies, startups, and everything in between." This includes a hospitality company now able to forecast across its 87,500+ properties, a hedge fund using Julius to model currency impacts on energy prices, and a legal startup whose finance team can now track metrics on the fly, and not through spreadsheet reconciliation.