Despite facing a down round during our Series C funding, we continued to grow the business and raise additional capital, demonstrating resilience in a competitive market.

When we announced our funding, we knew we had to quickly develop our international strategy to stay ahead of clones that were emerging in the market.

Once we entered the market, we decided to raise more funds through a real outside round, seeking strategic partners to invest in our desktop product. We decided to keep our valuation stable during the funding round, despite offers from venture capitalists to increase it, because we wanted to go public without risking a down round.

We raised money for the first time after five years of existence, once we had a clear picture of our market and customer traction.

Despite initial struggles, we showed some growth, prompting an investor to suggest we raise a Series A round, which I eagerly prepared for.

Raising a large funding round in 2021 allowed us to rapidly expand our engineering team and replatform our data backend, enabling us to shift towards becoming an analytics business.

We realized that to grow our business, we needed to raise capital, as we had no money in the bank after three years of operation, and we didn't want to remain a lifestyle business.

When we decided to join Y Combinator, we were already profitable and saw it as an opportunity to scale our team and improve our fundraising efforts.

For Atrium, I chose to raise money quickly to ensure we could establish ourselves in the legal market, which requires trust and stability.