Julia is powering the next wave of biomedical, machine learning, and climate startups
A whole new ecosystem of companies are coming to the limelight and they all have one thing in common: they are building with the Julia programming language. Companies operating at the edge of what is possible are relying on Julia’s computational efficiency, ease of use, and purpose built nature in the scientific computing ecosystem to solve some of the worlds most challenging problems.
In this article, we will explore the benefits of Julia and talk about some of the startups using Julia to change the world. Let’s dive in!
Before we talk about why companies are using Julia, it is good to get a sense of the breadth and depth of the different organizations building on the Julia ecosystem.
Startups using Julia extensively:
- Genie Cloud
- Quera Computing
- Invenia
- Julia Computing (now JuliaHub)
- Beacon Biosignals
- RelationalAI
- PumasAI
- Julius Technologies
- Zapata
- Zipline
- Find more: https://juliahub.com/case-studies/
You can find talks at previous JuliaCon’s from many of these organizations.
Large organizations using Julia (not exhaustive):
- AWS (Quantum Computing)
- Microsoft Research
- Apple (Autonomous Systems Group)
- NASA
If you are looking to join a company using Julia, you might want to check out this article I wrote on getting a job using Julia:
Startups typically operate in competitive spaces. Spaces usually dominated by large players like Google, AWS, or Microsoft (in the case of the cloud). In order for new companies to fight against these incumbent players, they need something radically different that what these larger companies are doing.
For many startups, this means using the Julia programming language. Julia’s ease of use, strong community, expanding ecosystem, and speed make the language a natural choice. I have said it before but I will say it again, those individuals and companies betting big on Julia now are the people who will garner a disproportionate amount of the upside. Right now, this is manifesting itself in the talent domain. 2022 was a huge year for hiring and companies like RelationalAI and JuliaComputing have continued to snap up tons of key Julia ecosystem contributors.
There is also a strong desire from the community to see these companies succeed as they are often time started by Julia contributors themselves like Beacon Biosignal. These companies can also tap into the community on Discourse and Stack Overflow which are
