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
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🛍️ Linear Product and Pricing News
- On April 16, 2025, Linear launched Pulse, a personalized feed for company updates, available on all plans with AI-generated summaries and audio digest options.
- Linear introduced a new feature called 'agents' on April 17.
- Linear launched Pulse, a personalized feed providing AI-generated summaries of workspace updates, announced by Chief Operating Officer Cristina Cordova on April 17, 2025.
- Linear introduced Pulse, a personalized feed for product organization updates and discussions.
- On April 10, 2025, Linear introduced a new AI-powered hybrid semantic search engine and granular permissions for API keys, enhancing search capabilities and security.
- Linear has rebuilt its search engine to combine AI-powered semantic search with keyword matching, as announced by CEO Karri Saarinen on April 10, 2025.
- Linear is launching a new hybrid semantic search engine in the coming weeks to enhance workspace search using natural language.
- Jam.dev announced that every ticket created with Jam now includes a video in Linear.
👔 Linear CEO, Management and Leadership Team
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⚔️ Linear Alternatives and Competitors
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💼 Linear Hiring and Layoffs
- Linear is hiring a Head of Security Engineering and a Staff Security Engineer to enhance their security practices, as announced by Cristina Cordova, Chief Operating Officer.
- Linear has added new roles for a Head of Security and a Staff Security Engineer in North America.
- Linear's sales team, led by Head of Sales Casey Bertenthal, achieved 150% of their Q1 target and is hiring Account Executives.
- Linear is hiring for a Motion Storyteller to join their creative studio and shape the company's visual language for product demos and videos, as announced by Julian Lehr, Marketing at Linear, on April 9.
- Gavin Nelson, a product designer at Linear, is currently shaping the company's native mobile apps and crafting app icons for various clients.
- Linear is hiring for a finance role to support their profitable team of 70 with 140%+ Net Revenue Retention, serving clients like OpenAI and Retool.
- Cristina Cordova, affiliated with Linear, is a leader offering upfront investment through the Neo Accelerator.
- Linear is hiring a writer to focus on high-quality content about product building and engineering craftsmanship.
🤖 Linear Developer, Integration and Automation News
- Linear has partnered with Codegen to launch an integration that allows users to collaborate with agents by tagging or assigning Codegen to issues.
- OpenAI has switched to using Linear to manage complexity and maintain speed.
- Linear added Cohere Inc. as an Artificial Intelligence sub-processor with locations in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom.
- Cristina Cordova, Chief Operating Officer at Linear, announced that leading AI companies are choosing Linear for its automation capabilities that streamline project updates and bug fixes.
- Karri Saarinen, Co-Founder and CEO at Linear, highlighted that many companies are already using Linear and encouraged people to explore job opportunities at these companies.
📈 Linear Financials, Fundraising and Valuation News
- Linear's Cristina Cordova participated as an angel investor in a recent funding round for a fintech company.
- Linear has become profitable by maintaining a small, focused team and hiring intentionally to build a superior tool.
- Linear's enterprise ARR grew 2000% and they signed their first Fortune 100 customer, while maintaining a 140%+ net revenue retention and fixing 95% of reported bugs within 5 days.
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