BENGALURU: Julia Computing, co-founded by Viral Shah and Deepak Vinchhi, raised $ 24 million in a Series A funding round led by Dorilton Ventures, with participation from Menlo Ventures, General Catalyst and HighSage Ventures. Bob Muglia, former CEO of Snowflake and former president of Microsoft’s servers and tools, will join the Julia Computing board of directors.
Julia Computing is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with an office in Bangalore. Shah had built Julia from Bengaluru. Julia has a large community of contributors and users in India.
Deepak Vinchhi said, “With this investment, Julia Computing is poised to significantly expand its product line and customer base in the United States, India and around the world. ”
The Julia programming language has been downloaded over 29 million times by users around the world, including thousands of open source developers who have contributed to Julia and her 6,000 registered packages. The language is used for AI, ML, analytics, data science, modeling, and simulation.
More than 1,500 universities around the world use and teach Julia, including MIT, Stanford, and UC Berkeley. It is used by more than 10,000 companies, including AstraZeneca, BlackRock, Google, Intel, Microsoft, Moderna, Pfizer, NASA, and the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
Julia Computing will use the funding to develop and advance its JuliaHub high-performance cloud platform and to grow the Julia ecosystem. Shah said technical computing is stuck in a rut today.
“Data scientists and engineers use products designed decades ago. JuliaHub makes it possible to design new drugs and therapies, to develop new batteries, to simulate a space mission and to map the universe, while using less computing resources and reducing emissions from data centers ”, he added. he declares.
Julia Computing is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with an office in Bangalore. Shah had built Julia from Bengaluru. Julia has a large community of contributors and users in India.
Deepak Vinchhi said, “With this investment, Julia Computing is poised to significantly expand its product line and customer base in the United States, India and around the world. ”
The Julia programming language has been downloaded over 29 million times by users around the world, including thousands of open source developers who have contributed to Julia and her 6,000 registered packages. The language is used for AI, ML, analytics, data science, modeling, and simulation.
More than 1,500 universities around the world use and teach Julia, including MIT, Stanford, and UC Berkeley. It is used by more than 10,000 companies, including AstraZeneca, BlackRock, Google, Intel, Microsoft, Moderna, Pfizer, NASA, and the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
Julia Computing will use the funding to develop and advance its JuliaHub high-performance cloud platform and to grow the Julia ecosystem. Shah said technical computing is stuck in a rut today.
“Data scientists and engineers use products designed decades ago. JuliaHub makes it possible to design new drugs and therapies, to develop new batteries, to simulate a space mission and to map the universe, while using less computing resources and reducing emissions from data centers ”, he added. he declares.
