Asana acquires workflow automation company StackAI for $75 million to build AI-native workplace platform

Asana has acquired StackAI, an AI workflow-automation system, for $75 million. StackAI's founders Tony Rosinol and Bernard Aceituno will join Asana as part of the deal.

StackAI designs agents (AI systems that operate autonomously within business workflows) to pull data from existing systems like Salesforce, Slack, and Gsuite. Asana frames the acquisition as part of positioning itself as "the operating system for human-agent teams."

StackAI had raised just under $20 million prior to acquisition, with most coming from a $16 million Series A round backed by investors including Gradient, Epaklon Capital, Lobby VC, LifeX Ventures, and Vercel CEO Guillermo Rauch. The company was part of Y Combinator's Winter '23 cohort.