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Lotas

Summer 2025 · Active

Cursor for Data Science — secure, AI-native IDE for data scientists

Location: San Francisco, US

Founded: 2025

Team size: 2

About

Lotas is building Erdos: a secure, AI-native IDE for data science. Cursor is excellent for software development but it lacks data science-specific tools that are critical to a data scientist’s workflow. Lotas is closing that gap. 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).

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