Asana () 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.
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Company history
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 in 2012, the investors valued the company at $280 million. In January 2018, the company announced it had raised $75 million in a new funding round led by Generation Investment Management. According to Business Insider, the new funds brought the company's value to $900 million.
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Product
Asana is web-based software-as-a-service (SaaS) designed to improve team collaboration. It focuses on allowing users to manage projects and tasks online without the use of email. In April 2012, Asana released its application programming interface (API) to third-party developers. Asana is integrated with productivity tools including Dropbox, Evernote, Google Drive, Zapier, Harvest, Instagantt, Jira, Zendesk, and DigiSpoke.In May 2013, Asana launched Organizations, which enables companies to adopt Asana at enterprise scale. Organizations added an Asana Team Browser, a user dashboard, employee auto-join and IT administration abilities related to provisioning and permissions. In January 2015, Asana released its native Android app. In November 2017, Asana released the app in French and German. In March 2018, Asana announced a new interactive feature called Timeline, which business can use to visualize and map out their projects.
Reception
Asana received a 4.5 / 5 from PC Magazine (October 13, 2017), which named it an Editors' Choice and called it "one of the best collaboration and productivity apps for teams." The article remarked on Asana's "thoughtful design, fluid interactive elements, and generous member allotment."
See also
- List of collaborative software
- List of project management software
References
External links
- Official website
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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