founded san francisco california 2008 founder dustin moskovitz and justin rosenstein headquarters san francisco ca united states number of employees 130 website asana.com asana s n 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 . 1 contents 1 company history 2 product 3 post email application 4 api 5 see also 6 references 7 external links company history edit moskovitz and rosenstein left facebook in 2008 2 to start asana named after a sanskrit word meaning yoga pose 3 which officially launched out of beta in november 2011 . 4 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 . 5 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 . 6 some of asana s high profile clients include airbnb dropbox disqus foursquare pinterest stripe aimia general electric samsung harvard university tesla motors nasa and uber . 7 product edit asana is web based software as a service designed to improve team collaboration . it focuses on allowing users to manage projects and tasks online without the use of email . each team can create a workspace . workspaces contain projects and projects contain tasks . in each task users can add notes comments attachments and tags . users can follow projects and tasks and when the state of a project or task changes followers get updates about the changes in their inboxes . 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 . 8 in january 2015 asana released its native android app . 9 post email application edit in june 2012 asana announced a new feature called inbox that aims to help teams minimize the use of email . as one step towards building a post email application 10 asana s inbox shows updates to tasks comments due date changes and other status updates people would normally reserve for email . 11 api edit in april 2012 asana released its api to third party developers . asana is integrated with productivity tools including dropbox evernote google drive harvest instagantt jira zendesk and digispoke . 12 see also edit list of collaborative software list of project management software references edit guynn jessica 2 november 2011 . facebook co founder dustin moskovitz unveils new company asana . los angeles times . guynn jessica 3 october 2008 . facebook co founder dustin moskovitz leaves for start up . los angeles times . vance ashlee 2 november 2011 . asana dustin and justin s quest for flow . businessweek . guynn jessica 2 november 2011 . facebook co founder dustin moskovitz unveils new company asana . los angeles times . schonfeld erick 24 november 2009 . facebook co founder dustin moskovitz raises 9 million for new collaboration startup asana . techcrunch . cain miller 23 july 2012 . asana raises money to save the world by saving time . the new york times . asana prominent customers . retrieved 27 august 2016 . hardy quentin 1 may 2013 . re re engineering the corporation . newyorktimes . asana ditches html5 for its first native android app . jan 20 2015 . o dell jolie 27 june 2012 . death to email and meetings too . asana s new inbox takes aim at work about work . venturebeat . hamburger ellis 27 june 2012 . with big asana update facebook co founder moskovitz wants to kill email . the verge . the tools you use integrated with asana . external links edit official website v t e task management software agantty any.do asana basecamp eproductivity evernote habitica iqtell nitro omnifocus organize pro priority matrix remember the milk reminders ios slack taskcracker taskfreak taskwarrior taskwise taskworld teamwork.com things todoist workflowy wunderlist zulip discontinued springpad category retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title asana software & oldid 744526189 categories task management softwaremission district san franciscoweb applicationstechnology companies based in the san francisco bay area2008 establishments in californiacompanies based in san francisco navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages espa olfran ais t rk e edit links this page was last modified on 15 october 2016 at 20 22 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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