Justin Kan (born July 16, 1983) is an American Internet entrepreneur and investor who is currently the CEO and co-founder of the law-tech company Atrium.
He is the co-founder of live video platforms Justin.tv and Twitch, as well as the mobile social video application Socialcam.He was formerly a partner at Silicon Valley incubator Y Combinator.
His attempt to broadcast his entire life at Justin.tv popularized the term "lifecasting".
Kan also started a Reddit-style electronic music discovery platform, The Drop.
He also contributes to the technology news site TechCrunch and co-founded Kiko Software, an Ajax based online calendar, with Emmett Shear.
Kan graduated from Yale University in 2005 with degrees in physics and philosophy.