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Linear

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Dev Tools · San Francisco, USA · Est. 2019
Developer ToolsSaaSProductivityProject Management↗ Website
$400M
Valuation
$50M
Revenue
150
Employees
2019
Founded

Linear is a purpose-built project management and issue tracking platform designed for high-performance software teams. Founded in 2019, it is known for its keyboard-first design, blazing speed, and opinionated workflow that helps engineering teams ship faster without process overhead.

Recent Press
5 items
Product Launch·2026-02-12
Linear Launches Linear Asks to Bridge Customer Feedback and Engineering Backlog
Linear released Asks, a structured intake system that lets customer-facing teams submit product requests directly into the engineering workflow without cluttering the backlog.
Press Release·2025-11-20
Linear Releases Linear Insights for Engineering Performance Analytics
Linear unveiled Insights, a built-in analytics dashboard offering cycle time, throughput, and workload metrics so engineering managers can track team health without third-party tools.
Press Release·2025-09-05
Linear Passes 30,000 Paying Teams Including Vercel, Loom, and Raycast
Linear announced it surpassed 30,000 paying software teams, with notable customers including Vercel, Loom, Mercury, and Raycast adopting it as their primary issue tracker.
Press Release·2025-07-18
Linear Announces Native GitHub, GitLab, and Figma Integrations for Seamless Developer Workflows
Linear deepened its developer tool integrations with bidirectional GitHub PR syncing, GitLab merge request linking, and Figma design attachment directly on issues.
Product Launch·2025-04-16
Linear Launches Pulse: Personalized Real-Time Feed for Product Teams
Linear released Pulse, a new personalized and real-time feed that keeps product teams in sync with updates and discussions across projects and initiatives, available to all Linear workspaces.
Company History
8 milestones
Three former Coinbase and Airbnb engineers founded Linear with the mission to build the fastest, most opinionated issue tracker for software teams.

Linear Organization Structure & Team

Org Chart
150 employees · Click a leader to explore their team
305 across 12 departments
Chief Executive Officer
Karri Saarinen
Tuomas Artman — Departments
· 305 people across 12 depts

Linear Financials, Revenue & Market Share

Annual Revenue
$50M
+80% vs prior year
YoY Growth
+80%
From $5M to $50M
Revenue / Employee
$333K
Annual revenue per full-time employee
Revenue Growth
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
$5M
$15M
$25M
$35M
$50M
Market Share
Developer Project Management Tools
3%
share
Linear
3%
Jira (Atlassian)
65%
Shortcut
4%
GitHub Issues
18%
Others
10%
$12B
TAM
$3B
SAM
$300M
SOM
Revenue Streams
Team Subscriptions85%
Enterprise Contracts15%
Business Units
Core Issue Tracking Platform70%
Linear issue tracker, Cycles, and Projects subscriptions powering day-to-day engineering workflow management.
Enterprise & Analytics30%
Linear Insights, Linear Asks, and enterprise contracts targeting larger engineering organizations.

Linear Internal Tools & Processes

Internal Tools
12 departments
Engineering70 people · 3 roles
Standards & Certifications
10 standards
Compliance frameworks, security audits, and quality certifications this company maintains.
Security
SOC 2 Type II
Certified
Linear holds SOC 2 Type II certification covering the security, availability, and confidentiality of its cloud-based issue tracking platform used by 30,000+ engineering teams.
Privacy
GDPR
Compliant
Linear provides GDPR-compliant data processing with EU data residency options, data subject access request support, and signed DPAs for European customers.
Privacy
CCPA
Compliant
Linear supports California Consumer Privacy Act requirements including data deletion workflows and opt-out mechanisms for US-based enterprise customers.
Security
TLS 1.3
Certified
Linear enforces TLS 1.3 encryption for all data in transit between client applications and its backend infrastructure, protecting team project data from interception.
Security
ISO 27001
In Progress
Linear is pursuing ISO 27001 certification for its information security management system as it scales its project management platform to enterprise customers who require formal security certifications for vendor approval.
Privacy
CPRA
Compliant
Linear complies with the California Privacy Rights Act, providing California users rights to access, correct, delete, and opt out of sharing of their personal data and workspace activity collected through the Linear project management platform.
Privacy
HIPAA
Compliant
Linear supports HIPAA compliance for healthcare software teams using Linear for issue tracking and project management, providing Business Associate Agreements and compliant data handling for healthcare engineering organizations.
Accessibility
WCAG 2.1
Compliant
Linear's web and desktop applications are designed to meet WCAG 2.1 Level AA accessibility standards, ensuring that software engineering teams with disabilities can use Linear's issue tracking and project management workflows fully.
Security
CSA STAR
Certified
Linear holds CSA STAR Level 1 certification, providing transparency in its cloud security practices and controls for enterprise customers evaluating the security posture of Linear's project management infrastructure.
Security
PCI DSS
Certified
Linear maintains PCI DSS compliance for its billing infrastructure processing subscription payments from Linear teams and enterprise customers, ensuring secure handling of payment card data in its SaaS billing systems.

Linear Interview Preparation

Interview Prep
Role-specific interview questions and keywords. Select a department, then click any role to prepare.
Engineering· 3 roles

Linear Products & Competitors

Product Suite
5 products · select one to explore
Dev Tools
Analytics
Linear Insights
Engineering performance analytics and team health metrics

Linear Insights delivers data-driven dashboards showing cycle time, throughput, issue resolution rates, and team workload distribution. Engineering managers use it to identify bottlenecks, coach underperforming squads, and report productivity trends to leadership.

Use Cases
Engineering Throughput & Cycle Time AnalysisTeam Workload Balancing & Bottleneck IdentificationQuarterly Engineering Performance Reporting
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Key Customers
RP
Ramp
SB
Supabase
CK
Clerk
Competitive Intelligence
VSJellyfish
THEM

Jellyfish is an engineering management platform that analyzes Git, Jira, and deployment data to give engineering leaders visibility into team capacity, sprint health, and software delivery performance.

EDGE

Zero additional tooling — analytics built natively into the issue tracker teams already use

VSSwarmia
THEM

Swarmia is an engineering analytics platform that aggregates data from GitHub, Jira, and Slack to help engineering leaders track team health, investment allocation, and delivery performance metrics.

EDGE

Cycle time and throughput metrics without requiring a separate engineering analytics subscription

VSLinearB
THEM

LinearB is an engineering analytics and workflow automation platform that analyzes Git and project management data to help engineering leaders measure delivery performance and improve developer productivity.

EDGE

Ironic competitor — Linear Insights provides similar metrics without third-party integrations

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