NEW Startup from Twitch co-founder 🤖

Justin Kan launched a new company, with a fresh $65M round led by Andreessen Horowitz, General Catalyst, and YC's Continuity Fund.

This isn't Kan's first startup: he launched and sold live-streaming and gaming startup Twitch to Amazon for a cool billion dollars in 2014. Kan's been building for years as part of the first class of famed startup accelerator Y Combinator with Reddit's Alexis Ohanian, late internet-activist Aaron Swartz, and current YC President Sam Altman.

Kan's new startup, Atrium, wants to automate lawyers using machine learning. Since going through YC last winter and raising $10M last year, they've acquired 220+ customers, including bird-themed companies, MessageBird, SendBird, and Bird. 🐦

Many law firms are notoriously inefficient, charging clients by the hour to complete tasks that could easily be automated. In addition, most firms pay out any annual profits to shareholders, leaving nothing behind to invest in software or internal tools. "For example, one of its apps automatically turns startup funding documents into Excel cap tables," from a recent TechCrunch article.

Atrium isn't alone. DoNotPay, founded by then-19-year-old Joshua Browder, automates common legal needs using their chatbot. The bot was initially built to help people fight traffic tickets and has since expanded to handle 1,000+ legal problems. They've already beaten 375,000 traffic tickets worldwide.

Most legaltech startups are focused on selling software to existing law firms: Klarity just launched out of YC to help lawyers analyze contracts using AI, and Ravel lets lawyers compare firms, quickly search millions of case files and decisions, and even predict how judges will rule. 😳

Atrium isn't selling software. They're launching a completely new law firm. Only time will tell if they'll be able to beat the big firms at their own game.

Atrium 👔

We asked 34 customers what Viktor does for them. Not one said chatbot.

They kept using words like colleague, coworker, team member. One CEO called it the glue holding their e-commerce business together, which is a lot, but also… you see why. It lives in Slack and plugs into 3,000+ tools, so instead of jumping between tabs, you just ask for the thing. Pull Stripe against HubSpot, check Sentry alerts, spin up a campaign brief, build a landing page, send a report upstairs. It all happens there.

It has already hit top 5 on Product Hunt with 130 comments, is SOC 2 certified, and your data does not train models.

One user said it was the first time AI felt like a real coworker, which is either exciting or slightly concerning depending on your week.