Linear in 2026: Revenue, Valuation, Funding, CEO

Linear at a glance

The company behind the product is Linear Orbit, Inc., a Delaware corporation (Linear DPA). In February 2026 it set up a British subsidiary, Linear Orbit UK Limited, in London (Companies House).

Who owns Linear?

Linear is private and independent: no acquirer, no shares on any exchange and no public talk of an IPO as of October 2026. It belongs to its three co-founders, current and former employees, and its investors. The founders’ stakes have not been reported.

Linear hasn’t raised new money since June 2025. Instead it has twice let current and former employees sell shares: alongside the Series C at $1.25 billion (Linear), and on August 26, 2026, when Accel, 01A, Salesforce Ventures and S32 bought $99 million of shares at a $2.5 billion valuation (Linear). Saarinen wrote that raising more capital would have diluted the team “without a clear reason”, because Linear already has more cash in the bank than it has ever raised.

What is Linear’s revenue?

Linear passed $100 million in annual recurring revenue earlier in 2026, it said in August (Linear). It didn’t give the month: arr.club dates the milestone to April 5, 2026 (arr.club), and Sacra estimates July 2026 (Sacra).

Two numbers explain the growth. Linear’s paying customers doubled in seven months, from 20,000+ in January 2026 to 40,000+ in August. And existing customers keep spending more: net revenue retention was 177% in August (Linear), after Saarinen put it at about 180% across cohorts in January, when annual recurring revenue from customers spending $100,000 or more had grown 6.3 times over 2025 (Karri Saarinen on X).

New workspaces created on Linear, to January 2026. Saarinen shared the chart without axis values, saying more businesses were signing up for Linear than ever before (X).

Linear has been profitable since 2021, a year after it launched (Linear). Its profits grew 280% in 2024, the company told TechCrunch (TechCrunch), and its net operating income rose about 3.5 times in 2025, with a negative lifetime burn (Karri Saarinen on X). In August 2026 it said it was cash-flow positive.

AI agents are a fast-growing share of the work. In January 2026, more than 70% of enterprise workspaces had installed agents, about 2,000 agents were installed each week and agents created 14,000 issues a week; Cursor, GitHub Copilot and OpenAI’s Codex had all shipped agents on Linear (Karri Saarinen on X). By August, agents were installed in 95% of paid workspaces, and the share of work they create had grown from 3% to 50% in a year (Linear).

Customers Linear names include OpenAI, Cursor, Cognition, Harvey, Ramp, Coinbase, Salesforce and Figma (Linear); OpenAI has scaled it to 3,000 users (Linear customers). Coinbase, Oscar Health and Automattic switched to Linear in 2025 (Karri Saarinen on X).

How much did Linear raise? Funding and valuation

Linear has raised about $134 million across four rounds, according to Crunchbase (TechCrunch). Its valuation doubled from $1.25 billion at the June 2025 Series C to $2.5 billion at the August 2026 tender offer.

Why totals differ online: older databases still show $17.2 million, Linear’s total after its 2020 Series A (Linear). The $134 million figure counts the whole Series C, which included shares bought from existing holders, so the new money Linear received is somewhat less. Tender offers don’t count, because Linear issued no new shares in them.

Who is the CEO of Linear?

Karri Saarinen is Linear’s co-founder and CEO. He was previously a principal designer at Airbnb and the first designer at Coinbase; co-founder Tuomas Artman was a staff engineer and architect at Uber, and Jori Lallo a senior engineer at Coinbase (TechCrunch). All three are from Finland (Sequoia).

Titles as listed on Linear’s about page (Linear), checked Oct 31, 2026.

Cristina Cordova joined as COO in May 2023 from Notion, where she led platform and partnerships (Linear).

Full bio and contact routes: Linear CEO Karri Saarinen: email address, LinkedIn and bio.

Where is Linear headquartered, and how many employees does it have?

Linear is a San Francisco company on paper: its privacy policy and DPA give 2261 Market St, San Francisco, as its address. In practice it has been remote-first since 2019. In October 2025 its team spanned more than 15 countries and 10 time zones, with coworking hubs in Berlin, New York and San Francisco (Linear), and it hires across North America, Europe, Singapore and Australia (Linear careers). Saarinen lives in Southern California; his co-founders live in New York and Finland (Entrepreneur).

At 181 people and more than $100 million in annual recurring revenue, Linear brings in over $500,000 of recurring revenue per person. Saarinen calls the small team a choice: “People should be surprised how small your team is, not how big it is” (Linear). It had more than 30 open roles in August 2026 (Linear).

What is Linear’s email format?

Linear employees mostly use {first}@linear.app (about 90% of known addresses), according to LeadIQ (LeadIQ); the rest mostly use {first}.{last}@linear.app. Staff mail runs on Google Workspace at linear.app. Linear doesn’t own linear.com, which redirects to the chipmaker Analog Devices.

All patterns, domains and official inboxes: Linear email format.

Key events: from private beta to agents

Linear spent a year in private beta, opened to everyone in June 2020 and was profitable a year later. Since 2025 most of its launches have been about AI agents.

More on Linear and similar companies

• Linear email format: patterns, domains and official inboxes

• Linear CEO Karri Saarinen: bio, career timeline and contact routes

• Cursor (Anysphere) in 2026: the AI coding company, a Linear customer whose agent works inside Linear

• Lovable in 2026: the Stockholm AI app builder, also on Linear’s customer list

• Notion in 2026: where Linear’s COO, Cristina Cordova, led platform and partnerships

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