(2019-11-21) Linear's Next Chapter: Announcing Our $4.2m Seed Round

Linear.app's Next Chapter: Announcing our $4.2M Seed Round.

Our Path so Far

In April of this year, we shared our story and vision to create a more enjoyable and effective way for teams to track issues and manage software development

The need for a new solution to help product teams came from our personal experiences of designing and building software for successful and fast-growing companies like Uber, Airbnb, and Coinbase. We grew frustrated by how slow, lacking and disconnected they were from today’s best practices, and how little they helped our teams to coordinate and align our work, and deliver high-quality software.

We also noticed a correlation between teams’ emotional connection to their work and their output and outcome. Teams that are inspired, engaged and proud of their work end up creating better software. The tools we use daily are in a position to help us maintain this inspiration and excitement (as well as steal it away from us).

To help us scale with the demand for our product, we are excited to partner with Sequoia Capital (Stephanie Zhan) as our lead investor on our seed round.

We will continue to focus on creating the best possible issue tracking experience for our core users. Linear will remain a fast and powerful interface to your team’s work that gets out of the way, integrates well with their workflow and lets individuals focus on their work.

Secondly, we want to evolve industry practices. We believe next-generation companies should also use next-generation practices. We want to work with the most forward-looking companies in the field and evolve everyone’s practices around how software is designed and built. Linear will embody these best practices and help teams run their day-to-day coordination more efficiently, reduce wasteful meetings and bring all of their focus back to meaningful work.