Linear Is Going After Jira With $82 Million and a Better Way to Build Software

It’s not that Linear doesn’t work for enterprise—it’s that some teams weren’t ready. Now they are.
When Karri Saarinen co-founded Linear along with Jori Lallo and Tuomas Artman, he was reacting to something he had seen repeatedly at companies like Airbnb and Coinbase, engineers and product teams losing enthusiasm the moment they opened up their project management software. Legacy tools, particularly Atlassian’s Jira, had become synonymous with complexity, bloat, and a loss of momentum. That experience became the starting point for Linear, a fast, focused, and design-forward issue tracking and product development platform that aimed to remove friction from software creation. Six years later, that thesis has gained strong validation. The company has raised an $82 million Series C round led by Accel, with participation from Sequoia Capital, 01A, Seven Seven Six, and Designer Fund. The
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Anshika Mathews
Anshika is the Senior Content Strategist for AIM Research. She holds a keen interest in technology and related policy-making and its impact on society. She can be reached at anshika.mathews@aimresearch.co
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