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Who would buy Linear?

Product development software designed for teams to plan and build products with integrated AI agent workflows. It supports collaboration by automating issue routing, prioritization, and streamlining tasks from drafting product requirements to code deployment.

Checked 2026-10-09

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Citrix 12%

Bought before:
- Wrike (2021)· Project management
- Podio (2012)· Cloud-based social network for businesses
- Ardence Inc. (2007)· Server provisioning software developer
2
Broadcom (CA) 8%

Bought before:
- Rally Software Development (2015)· Cloud-based agile development management platform
- Grid Tools (2015)· Enterprise test data management, automated test design, and optimization software
- Layer 7 Technologies (2013)· API management
3
Microsoft 7%

Bought before:
- Adxstudio Inc. (2015)· Web portal and application lifecycle management solutions
- Aspect Software Engineering (1996)· Computer software
- Ally.io (2021)

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Percentages: if one of the 159 buyers in our data acquires Linear, the chance it is this one, from how close its past acquisitions are to what Linear's website describes. Calibrated on 1,583 past deals. How it works.

Specialists

Smaller buyers that once bought a company very close to Linear.

Adobe3% · 50 deals in our data
- Workfront (2020)· Workfront, Inc., was a Lehi, Utah-based software company that developed web-based work management and project management software that featu
- Business Catalyst (2009)· a hosted (SaaS) all-in-one solution for building and managing business websites.
Datadog2% · 5 deals in our data
- Eppo (2025)· Datadog acquired Eppo, a feature flagging and experimentation platform, integrating experimentation and feature management into its product
Salesforce2% · 39 deals in our data
- Quip (2016)· Collaborative productivity software suite
- Yesware· Sales productivity platform

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