Linear for Startups
Up to six months free on a paid Linear plan, for teams under 50 that come through one of Linear's 900+ accelerator and VC partners.
Ran this? Answer two questions — did it work first try, and if not, which step broke — via the ic_vault_feedback_submit MCP tool or POST /api/vault/feedback. An entry with no answers has no rate, and that is the honest state, not a placeholder.
Offers
1 distinct offer under one brand name, each behind its own gate.
Linear for Startups
Up to 6 months free on a paid plan (Basic ~$10/user/mo or Business ~$16/user/mo).
- How you get in
- partner-gated
- Published ceiling
- none published — this is not $0, it is a number the program does not state
Who this is for
<50 employees; non-paying (new) Linear user; referral-gated — must be affiliated with an official Linear partner (900+ accelerators/VCs: YC, a16z, Sequoia, Techstars, Antler, Seedcamp, EF).
To have this checked against your own facts, call ic_vault_match. It answers in three values — you qualify, you do not, or we cannot tell from what the vendor publishes — and it will never report “you qualify” while any gate is unknown.
Traps
Every one of these cost real time. Ordered by how early they bite.
T1 — You must be a workspace ADMIN to redeem
Being at a qualifying company is not enough — the person redeeming needs admin rights on the Linear workspace. An engineer with a partner code and no admin seat cannot complete it.
Source: data/credits.ts Linear .note
T2 — The partner list is 900+ long and the seven named are illustrative
A non-hit against YC / a16z / Sequoia / Techstars / Antler / Seedcamp / EF is not a rejection. The evaluator routes this to manual review rather than denying on a partial list.
Source: data/credits.ts Linear .eligibility
Sources
- data/credits.ts — "Linear for Startups" .value (verbatim)
data/credits.ts— Up to 6 months free on a paid plan (Basic ~$10/user/mo or Business ~$16/user/mo). - data/credits.ts — "Linear for Startups" .note (verbatim)
data/credits.ts— Must be a workspace admin to redeem. - CREDITS_META.lastUpdated — a lower bound on last_verified
data/credits.ts— The file records 2026-07-07 as when the FILE was updated, not when this entry was individually re-checked. - Linear for Startups — apply page ↗
Facts last re-checked 2026-07-07 (from the source itself). No material change observed since — which is not the same as none having happened.
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