LinearB raises $50 million in Series B

Workflow optimization is all the rage at the moment, as businesses attempt to reach solutions to widespread burnout in the workplace.

Solutions to burnout have seen a sharp increase in value amid the 'Great Resignation', which has seen staff leave jobs that don't meet their needs.

The latest company to raise significant funding in this area is LinearB. The startup focuses on optimizing the workflow of development teams.

This market has enabled Linear B to raise $50 million in its Series B round led by Tribe Capital. The round also saw investment from Salesforce Ventures and Battery Ventures, amongst others.

LinearB has now raised a total of $71 million since its inception in 2019.

The investment comes after the company grew its customer base from 1,500 in 2021 to over 5,000 now. Part of LinearB's success is that it goes further than dashboarding efficiency, and instead offers ways to improve development workflow.

On top of that, the company prides itself on its integration with other development tools, and its ability to aggregate the data.

Through doing this, leaders can begin to predict how long it will take to get projects back on track if they are experiencing issues and set goals.

Discussing the appeal of the platform, LinearB CEO and co-founder Ori Keren, told TechCrunch: “Our true philosophy is that improvement has to come from the bottom up.Discussing the appeal of the platform, LinearB CEO and co-founder Ori Keren, told TechCrunch: “Our true philosophy is that improvement has to come from the bottom up.

“You got to have the developers using that tool, you got to have team leaders, frontline managers.

So really quickly, we identified that if we want to be a successful company — I wouldn’t say we pivoted, but we kind of adjusted quickly and said: when you onboard to the tool, it has to have something for every persona in the engineering organization: the developers, the team leaders and also for the engineering managers.”

Next steps for LinearB

LinearB now intends to bolster its own development teams and its market presence.

Keren commented: “We’re going to invest a lot in developer workflow optimization. We believe that developer productivity, if you want to be great at it, you have to be helping developers — these are the people who are doing the work.”

The company has a bold vision and this investment looks set to help it achieve its mission.

Speaking about the company's mission, LinearB COO and co-founder, Dan Lines, told TechCrunch: "We’re not just building a tool that helps dev teams, we’re creating a community of engineering leaders that want to improve the way software development happens.