Linear builds developer-focused product management and issue-tracking software that helps teams triage bugs and feature requests, manage product development, and tap AI for coding assistance. The company says it has more than 15,000 customers, including OpenAI, Scale AI, and Perplexity. Linear reported that its profits grew 280% last year. It employs around 80 people, many of whom work remotely, and is based in San Francisco. CEO Karri Saarinen said the new funding will be used to expand the product portfolio and attract larger enterprise clients. The Series C brings the company's total raised to $134.2 million, according to Crunchbase. Linear offers a collaborative workspace for software development teams to drive roadmaps, share project updates, triage incoming bug reports, and extract actionable insights from data tools. The company was co-founded by Jori Lallo, Karri Saarinen, and Tuomas Artman and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA. Linear counts customers such as Cash App, Supercell, The Browser Company, Raycast, Retool, Vercel, Cohere, Substack, Mercury, Runway, Loom, and Ramp. The company currently has a team of 50 people. Linear intends to use the new funding to continue expanding operations and to advance its development efforts. The article does not disclose revenue or other operating metrics. Linear is a project management tool and issue tracker aimed at engineers, designers, and product managers to map projects and coordinate around tasks, sprints, and bugs. The product emphasizes speed and a slick UX with real-time sync (under 100ms), extensive keyboard shortcuts, quick issue creation, Figma preview/embedding, a command menu, and integrations with GitHub, GitLab, Sentry, and Slack. Linear follows an opinionated design philosophy with "right defaults" to reduce customization and accelerate adoption for fast-moving teams. It operates on a SaaS model with a free tier and paid plans at $8 and $12 per user per month. Founded in San Francisco in 2019, the company runs a distributed team of eight employees across the U.S. and Europe. With recent product additions like a roadmap tool and OAuth2 support, Linear plans to expand its team and invest further in product development. Linear builds a fast, keyboard-driven issue tracker and product workflow platform intended to make individual contributors and teams more efficient. The product emphasizes speed, real-time sync, offline work, keyboard shortcuts, and integrations with GitHub, Figma and Slack, with plans to add more integrations over time. The team is also focused on automating routine project-management work and surfacing context from tasks to company goals. Linear is currently in private beta with a waitlist and has onboarded hundreds of companies, including Pitch, Render, Albert, Curology, Spoke, Compound and several YC startups. The company is based in San Francisco; its three cofounders (Karri Saarinen, Tuomas Artman, and Jori Lallo) are Finnish and now based in the Bay Area. Linear has four employees and recently closed a seed financing to fund its growth and product development.

Total raised

$134M

Funding rounds

4

Latest round

Series C

Latest activity

Jun 2025