$10m Seed Funding for AI Data Analyst Julius

In San Francisco, AI-powered data analyst Julius has raised $10m in seed funding. The firm's software automates the analysis and visualization of large volumes of data, and can be interrogated using natural language to perform predictive modelling.

The firm was founded by Rahul Sonwalkar (pictured) in 2022, and pitches itself as democratizing data analytics for users across a business. Products include collaboration tool Julius Teams; Notebooks, which lets power users easily iterate on their work and automate complex analysis while keeping it accessible to everyone else; and direct data warehouse connections to platforms like PostgreSQL, BigQuery and Snowflake.

The round was led by Bessemer Venture Partners, with participation from Horizon VC, 8VC, Y Combinator, and the AI Grant accelerator, plus angel investors including Twilio co-founder Jeff Lawson.

The company is on the web at www.julius.ai .