Linear

AI · San Francisco, United States · Founded 2019

Creates a tool for streamline software projects, sprints, tasks, and bug tracking

Valuation $1–2.5B

Revenue $100–500M

Headcount 100–500

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Power Law Unicorn$1–10B valuation tier Thoroughbred$100M+ revenue

Knowledge graph

News Linear doubles valuation to $2.5B, defying the SaaS-is-dead narrative Aug 26, 2026

Talent graph

Linear's talent

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Founders /100 quality score

Key operators quality score

Potential founders likely future founders

Startup mafia alumni-founded startups

Talent movements in · out past 12 months

Source: Dealroom Talent Intelligence.

Investors

18 investors on Linear's cap table

Sourced from Dealroom's funding history. Investor profile links are shown where available.

Seed 5 investors entered at this stage

Tikhon Bernstam

Series B+ 13 investors entered at this stage

Andrew Mason

01 Advisors

Josh Miller

Ilkka Paananen

Accel

Stewart Butterfield

Claire Hughes Johnson

Designer Fund

Seven Seven Six

Jorn van Dijk

Cal Henderson

Immad Akhund

Guillermo Rauch

Ownership

Who owns Linear

Estimated cap table from Dealroom's shareholder data — share of equity by holder. Stakes as last recorded by Dealroom (2026). Percentages are indicative.

42% Founders

Sequoia Capital 18.5%

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Global footprint

Where Linear has talent and traffic

Workforce by country

15 countries with
team presence

🇺🇸 United States71.9%

🇮🇪 Ireland3.9%

🇳🇱 Netherlands3.7%

🇩🇪 Germany2.9%

🇬🇧 United Kingdom2.9%

Top 5 of 15 shown

Web traffic by country

8.6M monthly visits
across markets

🇺🇸 United States33.7%

🇮🇳 India10.5%

🇬🇧 United Kingdom4.5%

🇩🇪 Germany3.3%

🇫🇷 France2.8%

Top 5 markets shown

Market sentiment

What the market is saying about Linear

An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about Linear on X over the past 7 days. We rank by likes & retweets, ignore corporate channels, and surface the themes that broke out from real people.

Reading the room on X — pulling top posts and synthesizing themes…

Source: X recent search ranked by engagement (likes + retweets) · Synthesis by Claude · Cached for 1 hour

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