Linear | News, Hiring, Layoffs, Competitors, CEO, Fundraising Insights
Linear is a purpose-built tool designed for planning and building products, focusing on streamlining issues, projects, and roadmaps....
Linear is a purpose-built tool designed for planning and building products, focusing on streamlining issues, projects, and roadmaps. Founded in 2019 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, Linear aims to empower product teams with a combination of UI elegance and high performance. The company operates fully remote and has gained popularity among high-impact companies for its project management and issue tracking capabilities.
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Headquarters
San Francisco, California
Size
51-200 employees
Industry
Software Development
🛍️ Linear Product and Pricing News →
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⚔️ Linear Alternatives and Competitors →
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🛍️ Linear Product and Pricing News
- Linear introduced improvements for SLAs, templates, and Jira & GitHub issues sync, including business day SLAs, nested sub-issues in templates, and enhanced notifications for issue syncing.
- Fireflies.ai announced a new integration with Linear to automate task creation and improve productivity.
- Linear introduced a new 'Initiatives' feature to support organizational goals.
- Linear introduced Business Day SLAs to ensure tasks are completed within business days, avoiding weekends.
- Linear has rebuilt its Zapier integration for improved speed and reliability, offering instant triggers and new actions.
- Linear has introduced a new team issues page with customizable views and a rebuilt Zapier integration offering instant triggers and new actions for improved automation.
- Linear has added SteelSync to its official integrations directory, enabling automated feature request and bug report management.
- Linear has expanded its customer base to include the Healthcare industry.
👔 Linear CEO, Management and Leadership Team
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Chief Operating Officer
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⚔️ Linear Alternatives and Competitors
- ClickUp |
- Aha! |
- Hive |
- ProofHub |
- Todoist |
- Asana |
- ProductPlan |
- Jira |
- GitHub |
- monday dev |
- Wrike |
- Trello |
- Kitemaker |
- Plane |
- Height |
- Productboard |
- Azure DevOps |
- Basecamp |
- Teamwork.com |
- Stepsize
💼 Linear Hiring and Layoffs
- Cristina, an early Stripe employee, is now Linear's COO.
- Dominic Wong has joined Linear as Revenue and Business Operations in the United States, previously serving as Finance and Head of Revenue Operations at Census.
- Tyler Hitchcock has joined Linear as an Account Executive in the United States, previously serving as a Sr. Account Executive at Ionic: An OutSystems Company.
- Linear supports over 10,000 companies with a team of 60, including 25 engineers, by focusing on creativity, maintaining a remote-first environment, and avoiding email for internal communication.
- Paul Macgregor has joined Linear as a Designer in the United Kingdom, previously working as a Product Designer at Tumblr.
- Linear's founders believe standard interviews are superficial and prefer using paid work trials for hiring.
- Linear is currently hiring a Building Constructor as a Client Advisor in Denmark.
- Melissa Mier has joined Linear as an Account Executive in the United States, previously serving as a Founding Account Executive at WorkOS.
🤖 Linear Developer, Integration and Automation News
- Linear now supports Scale's high velocity in AI development, replacing Vercel as a highlighted customer.
- Linear has achieved a 4.5x increase in active users, a 2x increase in reported issues, and 2x faster issue closing times, with companies like Scale AI, Brex, LUSH, and Monzo switching to their platform.
- Linear reports a 4.5x increase in active users and 2x faster issue closing times as companies like Scale AI, Brex, LUSH, and Monzo switch to their platform.
- Linear has been adopted by Scale AI to manage product workflows, with widespread use across the company after a successful pilot.
- Linear's Sales & Success team closed a Fortune 20 customer and over 50% of the Forbes AI 50 companies, with average deal size doubling since earlier this year.
- Linear signed a $10B+ decacorn startup as a customer, reporting a 46.52% increase in daily tool usage.
- Linear is now used by over 10,000 companies, including Fortune 20 firms, with notable clients like Scale AI, Brex, LUSH, and Monzo.
- Pleo switched to Linear Asks for managing internal request workflows, saving $30K annually and benefiting from seamless Slack integration.
📈 Linear Financials, Fundraising and Valuation News
- Cristina Cordova, COO of Linear, participated as an angel investor in Lorikeet's $5 million seed funding round.
- Linear achieved profitability in its second year and has maintained it since, according to CEO Karri Saarinen.
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