Linear
Linear, founded in 2019 in San Francisco, builds bug tracking and product planning software for development teams.
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Linear, founded in 2019 in San Francisco, builds bug tracking and product planning software for development teams. Its customers include OpenAI, Scale AI, and Perplexity, and it competes with Atlassian's Jira.
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Funding history
- 2026-08-26Secondary$99M
Investors · Accel, 01A, Salesforce Ventures, S32Source · accel.com ↗
- 2025-06Series C$82M
Investors · Sequoia Capital, Accel, 01 Advisors, Designer Fund, Seven Seven SixSource · SVTR Weekly #109
- 2023-09Series B$35M
Investors · Accel, 01 Advisors, Sequoia CapitalSource · SVTR Weekly #019
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