Asana (web application)
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| Developer(s) | Asana, Inc. |
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| Operating system | Web, iOS, Android |
| Available in | English |
| Type | Project management, task management, productivity software, work tracking |
| Website | www |
Asana (/əˈsɑːnə/) is a web and mobile application designed to help teams track their work. It was founded in 2008 by Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz and ex-engineer Justin Rosenstein, who both worked on improving the productivity of employees at Facebook.
Moskovitz and Rosenstein left Facebook in 2008 to start Asana (named after a Sanskrit word meaning “yoga pose”), which officially launched out of beta in November 2011. The company announced that they had closed a $1.2 million angel round in the spring of 2011 from investors including Ron Conway, Peter Thiel, Mitch Kapor, Owen van Natta, Sean Parker, and former Facebook Director of Mobile Jed Stremel, followed by a $9 million USD Series A round in investment led by Benchmark Capital in late November 2011. On July 23, 2012, Asana announced a new round of funding — Peter Thiel and Founders Fund, along with existing investors Benchmark, Andreessen-Horowitz, and Mitch Kapor, have invested $28 million in Asana; Thiel also joined Asana's Board of Directors. According to a New York Times article and someone briefed on the funding, the investors valued the company at $280 million.
Some of Asana's high-profile clients include Airbnb, Dropbox, Disqus, Foursquare, MeUndies, ListenFirst Media, Pinterest, Stripe, Aimia, Zendesk, General Electric, Samsung, Harvard University, Tesla Motors, NASA, and Uber.
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