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Linear for startups

Discover the issue tracker that startups love to use.
Get up to 6 months free with the Linear Startup Program.

A board view showing all team issues in Linear. The issues include "Optimize load times", "Prepare ProductHunt launch", "Design landing page assets", and "Spec out GPT integration".

Build and scale your product with Linear

Linear is the tool of choice for ambitious startups to plan, build, and scale their products. Powerful yet simple to use, it streamlines issues, sprints, and projects. Focus your team on the work that matters and ship faster.

Cycle progress in Linear. The Cycle has 45 points of scope, of which 6 points are started and 31 points are completed.

The next generation of high-impact startups build with Linear

Why startups love Linear

Designed to move fast. Just like your startup.

Linear is built for teams that want to ship faster. With its minimal design and snappy performance, it delivers a focused experience ideal for small teams with big ambitions.

A list of issues within Linear. Issue titles include "Redesign onboarding flow", "Fine-tune GPT model usage", and "Fix visual glitch in user profile".

Break work into manageable pieces

Create bug reports and manage tasks in a streamlined interface that helps you get stuff done.

An in-progress Cycle in Linear that has a total scope of 115 points, which grew by +17% since the Cycle began.

Build team momentum

Use Cycles to focus your team on what work should happen next. Maintain velocity and make meaningful progress.

A Roadmap in Linear that shows a number of Projects and their progress. The Projects include "iOS beta", "Security and scalability", "Onboarding flow", and "Marketing release".

Plan your product

Define, track, and ship larger pieces of work from start to finish with projects and roadmaps.

A grid of logos for Linear's integrations, including Figma, GitHub, Slack, Notion, Discord, Zendesk, and more.

Collaborate across tools

Linear is integrated with the rest of your tool stack. Connect issues to work in Figma, GitHub, Slack, and more.

45%

of YC companies build with Linear

66%

of the top AI startups use Linear

“Linear helps us be action biased. We’ve been using it since day one.”

Linear Startup Program

Get started for free with the Linear Startup Program

Startups affiliated with a Linear partner can upgrade to any of Linear’s paid plans and get up to 6 months off.

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Fewer than 50 employees

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FAQs

Questions and answers

The Linear Startup Program is designed to help early-stage startups discover a better, faster way to build and ship great products. Startups affiliated with a partner in Linear’s Startup Program receive up to 6 months of free access to Linear’s Basic and Business plans.

To redeem the offer you must be affiliated with an official Linear partner. The offer is only valid for non-paying Linear users with less than 50 employees.

To apply, enter your partner code in the form above or follow the link provided by your partner. You need to be an admin of your Linear workspace and logged into your account to redeem the offer.

You can see all participating partners of the Linear Startup Program on this page. If your investor is not part of the program, you can ask them to apply to become a partner.

The Linear Startup Program is designed for early-stage startups. Only companies with fewer than 50 employees are eligible to participate. If your company is larger, please contact our sales team.

Only companies affiliated with an official Linear partner can participate in the program. Linear does, however, offer a generous free plan that includes all major features, allows unlimited workspace members, and 250 issues (plus unlimited archived issues). If your investor is not part of the program and you think they should be, ask them to apply.

Please fill out this form to apply to become a Linear partner and we’ll get back to you.