Linear | Competitive Intelligence Profile
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.
Website
Headquarters
San Francisco, California
Size
51-200 employees
Industry
Software Development
🛍️ Linear Product and Pricing News →
👔 Linear CEO, Management and Leadership Team →
⚔️ Linear Alternatives and Competitors →
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🤖 Linear Developer, Integration and Automation News →
📈 Linear Financials, Fundraising and Valuation News →
🛍️ Linear Product and Pricing News
- Linear is being integrated with MCP to streamline project management and enhance efficiency in web development.
- Devin, an autonomous AI engineer by Cognition, integrates with Linear to autonomously handle coding tasks and pull requests.
- Linear launched the official Linear MCP, enabling AI models to access Linear data securely with integrations like Claude and support from partners Anthropic and Cloudflare.
- Linear's Remote MCP Server is now available with native Claude Integration and support in clients like Cursor and Windsurf, thanks to partnerships with Anthropic and Cloudflare.
- Linear upgraded Customer Requests with new features to add requests directly to projects and subscribe to individual customers.
- Linear is expanding into the enterprise market by hiring for an Account Executive (Enterprise) role to drive sales and shape their enterprise strategy, as announced by Casey Bertenthal, Head of Sales at Linear, on April 29, 2025.
- 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 CEO, Management and Leadership Team
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Chief Operating Officer
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Co-Founder, CEO[email protected]
⚔️ Linear Alternatives and Competitors
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- Asana |
- ProductPlan |
- Jira |
- GitHub |
- monday dev |
- Wrike |
- Trello |
- Kitemaker |
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- Height |
- Productboard |
- Azure DevOps |
- Basecamp |
- Teamwork.com |
- Stepsize
💼 Linear Hiring and Layoffs
- Linear changed the job title from Creative Lead to Creative Director for Web & Brand in North America.
- 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 is hiring a new customer experience team member in the North America timezone.
- 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.
🤖 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.
- Linear added Cohere Inc. as an Artificial Intelligence sub-processor with locations in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom.
📈 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.
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