Asana, Inc.

Asana is a work management platform that helps teams plan, organize, track, and manage projects and workflows. Dustin Moskovitz, a Facebook co-founder, and Justin Rosenstein founded it in 2008 in San Francisco. They built it to solve the coordination challenges they experienced firsthand while scaling Facebook's engineering teams.

The platform covers project management, task tracking, workflow automation, goal setting, portfolio management, resource planning, reporting, and team collaboration. Work can be viewed as lists, Kanban boards, timelines, calendars, or forms. Workflows automate repetitive coordination with rules that trigger actions based on events. If a task moves to a certain stage, Asana can automatically assign it to the next person and notify the team.

The Work Graph is the structural foundation. It connects tasks, people, goals, projects, and portfolios into an interconnected graph. This lets Asana surface cross-team dependencies, spot bottlenecks, and provide visibility that siloed tools can't match. A marketing team's campaign timeline connects to the design team's task queue and the executive team's quarterly goals.

Asana AI builds on the Work Graph to deliver AI-powered status updates, smart task prioritization, project risk identification, workflow recommendations, and natural language interaction. The rich context from the Work Graph makes the AI more useful than it would be in a simpler tool.

Asana targets knowledge workers across organizations of all sizes. Marketing, operations, IT, product development, and business operations teams are the primary users. The go-to-market combines a free tier for small teams with enterprise sales for larger accounts. Over 150,000 paying customers use it across 200+ countries.

Annual revenue is roughly $720 million with gross margins around 90%. Subscriptions run on monthly or annual billing across Starter, Advanced, Enterprise, and Enterprise+ tiers. Customers spending over $100,000 annually represent a growing segment, showing upmarket traction. The company has made strong progress toward profitability.

Asana competes with Monday.com, Smartsheet, Wrike, and broader tools like Jira and Microsoft Planner. The Work Graph data model sets it apart by creating deeper connections between goals, projects, and tasks.

With about 2,000 employees, Asana has positioned itself as a leading work management platform for distributed, cross-functional teams.