Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Updated Jul 29, 2026
Linear is a remote-first, San Francisco-based software development company building a fast, opinionated product development system for product teams and agents. It centers on issue tracking, project planning, roadmaps, docs, cycles, and AI-assisted workflows.
Primary product
Linear — the product development system / issue tracking and project planning platform
Founded
2019
Headquarters
San Francisco, California, United States
Team size
100-150
Work style
Remote
Industry
Software Development
Sub-industry
Developer tools / issue tracking / product management software
Offices
Small, selective, remote-first, craftsmanship-oriented, and principle-driven. Hiring emphasizes deep focus, async collaboration, paid work trials, and high autonomy.
Work style
Remote
Compensation
Public hiring materials emphasize competitive salary and equity, employee-friendly equity terms, and that compensation is discussed early in the process. Public salary bands are not posted on the main company pages.
Benefits
Pricing
Freemium subscription SaaS with a free tier, per-user monthly pricing on paid tiers, annual billing on paid plans, and custom Enterprise pricing.
Differentiators
Technology
Estimated revenue
About $20M-$30M
Estimated monthly visits
8.4M
Traffic estimate as of Jun 2026
Linear published a post-mortem on a March 24, 2026 security incident in which a code change temporarily weakened team-level permissions within some workspaces for about one hour; the company said no credentials or tokens were exposed and remediated the issue by reverting the change, clearing caches, and logging out active mobile sessions.
SourceLinear published a post-mortem on a January 24, 2024 incident involving temporary data loss during a database migration and backup restoration; the company restored most data and later added process and tooling changes to improve recovery and migration safety.
SourceLinear · Jul 2026
Linear introduced Loops, recurring workflows that Linear Agent can run on a schedule or in response to events.
Linear · Jun 2026
Linear announced Coding Sessions, letting Linear Agent write code for issues without leaving Linear.
Linear · Apr 2026
Linear disclosed a one-hour permission bug that temporarily exposed private-team data within some workspaces and described its remediation and follow-up controls.
Linear · Jun 2025
Linear announced an $82M Series C at a $1.25B valuation, led by Accel, and said it remains profitable and remote-first while investing in AI-native product development.
Reuters · Jun 2025
Reuters reported Linear’s $82M Series C, $1.25B valuation, 15,000+ customers, and remote-first team of about 80 at the time of reporting.
Business model
Dec 2020 · Sequoia Capital
Nov 2019 · Sequoia Capital
Head of Product
Head of Engineering
Head of Sales
Head of Security
Investors
Customers
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