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September 14, 2023

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Linear

A better way to build products.

About

Industry

Product Management Software

Founded

2019

Headquarters

San Francisco, California

Website

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Funding History

funding

$52.2 million

Valuation

$400 million

Notable investors

Sequoia Capital, Index Ventures, Dylan Field, Accel, 01Advisors

Traction

Hundreds of startup product teams are customers of Linear, including Ramp, Cash App, Vercel, Retool, Loom, Descript, and Watershed.

In 2021, the Linear team shipped 39 changelog updates, 58 new features, and 740 fixes and improvements. Some highlights include integrations with Front, Intercom, and Zendesk; roadmap timeline, SOC 2 compliance, and split inbox.

In 2021, the Linear team documented 4,387 issues and completed 2,489. That’s an average of 7.17 issues completed per day.

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Leadership

Karri Saarinen: Co-Founder & CEO of Linear. Former Principal Designer at Airbnb.

Jori Lallo: Co-Founder of Linear. Former Software Engineer at Coinbase.

Tuomas Artman: Co-Founder of Linear. Former Senior Staff Engineer at Uber.

Nan Yu: Head of Product at Linear. Former VP of Product at Mode. ‍

Cristina Cordova: COO at Linear. Former Partner at First Round Capital.

Latest News

Twitter (May 23, 2023): Cristina Cordova, former Partner at First Round Capital, joins Linear as Chief Operating Officer

Linear Blog (December 17, 2021): Linear – 2021 Wrapped‍

VentureBeat (December 8, 2020): Linear raises $13 million to streamline software development projects