Linear Inc.

About Linear Inc.

Financials

Dated, source-cited figures. Estimates are marked.

Products by Linear Inc.

All products by Linear Inc. reviewed by our AI panel of experts.

LinearProject Management

Issue tracking and project management built for software teams

From $10/mo7.7/10

How Our Review Panel Scores Linear Inc.

Six independent reviewer personalities assessed Linear Inc.'s product on their own terms. They disagreed by 3.5 points — The Skeptic was the hardest to convince, The Domain Strategist the most positive.

Averaged across 1 reviewed product in our catalog. Scores are out of 10.

Competitive Landscape

Who Linear Inc. competes with, and how they differ.

Atlassian (Jira)8.1/10

Jira is Atlassian's long-established issue tracker built for large, complex engineering organizations with deep customization, permissioning, and governance; Linear targets fast-moving product teams with an opinionated, keyboard-first workflow and far less configuration overhead.

2 products reviewed on TopReviewed

ClickUp7.0/10

ClickUp is an all-in-one work management suite spanning docs, chat, goals, and dozens of view types across every department, while Linear stays narrowly scoped to software issue tracking, cycles, and git-linked workflows for engineering and product teams.

1 product reviewed on TopReviewed

Asana

Asana serves general cross-functional work management (marketing, ops, HR) with flexible custom fields and portfolio views, whereas Linear is purpose-built around software development concepts like sprints, triage, and roadmaps tied to code.

monday.com7.5/10

monday.com is a broad, highly customizable Work OS sold across many industries through a visual board-first interface, while Linear is an opinionated, engineering-specific tool with a deliberately narrower feature surface and stricter workflow conventions.

1 product reviewed on TopReviewed

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Shortcut

Shortcut (formerly Clubhouse) targets the same small-to-midsize software team segment as Linear with a similarly dev-centric issue tracker, but has raised far less capital and has notably smaller market share and brand momentum.

Company Timeline

Key milestones in Linear Inc.'s history, with sources.

1. Aug 28, 2026Milestone

   Completes $99M tender offer at $2.5B valuation, ARR tops $100M

   Linear completed a $99 million tender offer valuing the company at $2.5 billion, doubling its 2025 Series C mark; ARR passed $100M with 177% net revenue retention and 40,000+ paying business customers. Participants included Accel, 01A, Salesforce Ventures, and S32.

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2. Jun 10, 2025Funding

   Series C — $82M led by Accel at $1.25B valuation

   Linear raised $82 million in a round led by Accel, valuing the company at $1.25 billion and bringing total funding to $134.2 million. TechCrunch reported 15,000+ customers including OpenAI, Scale AI, and Perplexity, and profits up 280% year over year.

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3. Sep 14, 2023Funding

   Series B — $35M led by Accel

   Linear raised a $35 million Series B led by Accel (Miles Clements), with participation from Sequoia Capital and 01Advisors. The company disclosed roughly 50 employees and said it had been operating profitably since 2021 with a negative lifetime burn rate.

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4. 2021Milestone

   Reaches profitability

   Linear disclosed in its 2023 Series B announcement that it had been operating profitably since 2021, ahead of any later funding round.

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5. Dec 8, 2020Funding

   Series A — $13M led by Sequoia Capital

   Linear raised a $13 million Series A led by Sequoia Capital, bringing total funding to date to $17.2 million.

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6. Nov 21, 2019Funding

   Seed round — $4.2M led by Sequoia Capital

   Linear announced a $4.2 million seed round led by Sequoia Capital (Stephanie Zhan) with participation from Index Ventures (Sarah Cannon) and angels including Figma's Dylan Field, Coinbase's Emilie Choi, and YC's Gustaf Alstromer.

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7. 2019Founded

   Linear founded by Karri Saarinen, Tuomas Artman, and Jori Lallo

   Linear was founded in 2019 by Karri Saarinen (CEO), Tuomas Artman (CTO), and Jori Lallo (CPO), former product/engineering leads from Airbnb, Uber, and Coinbase, to build an issue-tracking tool for software teams.

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