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Lotas

AI for Data Science and 3D

San Francisco

2 employees

AI

Seed · $500K

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About Lotas

For our first product, we built Rao: an AI coding assistant into RStudio — an IDE used by up to 5 million data scientists and statisticians who use the R programming language to analyze data. Rao could read, write, and edit code while understanding the user's context (codebase and environmental variables).

Company details

Team Size2

LocationSan Francisco

IndustryAI

Funding

Total raised

$500K

StandoutYBacked by Y Combinator · P26

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Last stage

Seed

Investors

Y Combinator

AAmazon Web Services

Founders

William Nickols

Founder/CTO Lotas — accelerating data science with AI Harvard '24

Jorge Guerra

Harvard PhD student in Biophysics (on leave). Co-founded Lotas after observing the lack of AI coding tools in RStudio during his PhD program.

What happens next.

No applications, no recruiter spam. Just the intro.

01

Confirm the fit

A few questions to make sure this role is the right shape for you. Two minutes.

02

I pitch you to the company

I write the intro, send it to the founder, and handle the back-and-forth.

03

A meeting lands on your calendar

If they’re a yes, I book the chat. You show up — that’s the whole job-hunt.