Founder of a listed tool
Karri Saarinen
Co-founder and CEO, Linear, named behind the Linear MCP listing on Anchor Terminal.
What Karri builds
Linear MCP D · Work & productivity
Linear's centrally hosted MCP server for finding, creating and updating issues, projects and comments, with a read-only endpoint variant.
Co-founder and CEO, Linear, researched 28 October 2026 · the people behind it
Works with
- Jori Lallo Co-founder and CPO, Linear
- Tuomas Artman Co-founder and CTO, Linear
Backed by
Sequoia Capital Index Ventures Accel 01 Advisors Seven Seven Six Designer Fund Indie.vc TK Ventures Soleio Jeff Weinstein Ilkka Paananen, CEO of Supercell Lauren Loktev Vlad Loktev Dick Costolo Patrick Collison, CEO of Stripe Lenny Rachitsky Harry Stebbings Aston Motes Dylan Field, CEO of Figma Emilie Choi, COO of Coinbase Charlie Cheever Gustaf Alströmer, Partner at Y Combinator Tikhon Berstram Larry Gadea, CEO of Envoy Jude Gomila, CEO of Golden James Smith, CEO of Bugsnag Fred Stevens-Smith, CEO of Rainforest Bobby Goodlatte Marc McCabe Julia DeWahl Dan Romero Stewart Butterfield, CEO of Slack Christina Cacioppo, CEO of Vanta Kyle Parrish Praveen Neppalli Naga Ganesh Srinivasan Guillermo Rauch, CEO of Vercel Josh Miller, CEO of The Browser Company Andrew Mason, CEO of Descript Immad Akhund, CEO of Mercury Claire Hughes Johnson Jorn van Dijk, CEO of Framer Job van der Voort, CEO of Remote Anthony Guo, CTO of Retool Akash Garg
Questions
Who is Karri Saarinen?
Karri Saarinen co-founded Linear with Jori Lallo and Tuomas Artman, incorporating it in January 2019, and is its CEO. At Airbnb he had built his own Chrome extension to improve working with Jira, which the founders set out to replace.
What does Linear make?
Anchor Terminal lists Linear MCP from Linear. Linear's centrally hosted MCP server for finding, creating and updating issues, projects and comments, with a read-only endpoint variant.
Who has invested in Linear?
The sources our research read name Sequoia Capital, Index Ventures, Accel, 01 Advisors, Seven Seven Six, Designer Fund, Indie.vc, TK Ventures, Soleio, Jeff Weinstein, Ilkka Paananen, CEO of Supercell, Lauren Loktev, Vlad Loktev, Dick Costolo, Patrick Collison, CEO of Stripe, Lenny Rachitsky, Harry Stebbings, Aston Motes, Dylan Field, CEO of Figma, Emilie Choi, COO of Coinbase, Charlie Cheever, Gustaf Alströmer, Partner at Y Combinator, Tikhon Berstram, Larry Gadea, CEO of Envoy, Jude Gomila, CEO of Golden, James Smith, CEO of Bugsnag, Fred Stevens-Smith, CEO of Rainforest, Bobby Goodlatte, Marc McCabe, Julia DeWahl, Dan Romero, Stewart Butterfield, CEO of Slack, Christina Cacioppo, CEO of Vanta, Kyle Parrish, Praveen Neppalli Naga, Ganesh Srinivasan, Guillermo Rauch, CEO of Vercel, Josh Miller, CEO of The Browser Company, Andrew Mason, CEO of Descript, Immad Akhund, CEO of Mercury, Claire Hughes Johnson, Jorn van Dijk, CEO of Framer, Job van der Voort, CEO of Remote, Anthony Guo, CTO of Retool and Akash Garg.
How are Karri's tools graded?
Linear MCP is graded D, 53.9 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.
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