Asana acquires no-code agent-builder StackAI | TechCrunch

Last day to exhibit your breakthrough to 10,000+ tech leaders at Disrupt is on Oct 2. Book Exhibit Table Now. Disrupt doors open Oct. 13. Get your pass and bring someone with you at 50% off. REGISTER NOW. Asana has acquired the workflow automation company StackAI for $75 million, part of a larger effort to position itself as an AI-native workplace platform. StackAI’s founders, Tony Rosinol and Bernard Aceituno, will join Asana as part of the acquisition. Asana framed the acquisition as part of its broader AI pivot, in which it seeks to build its platform into “the operating system for human-agent teams.” The announcement was announced Thursday afternoon to coincide with Asana’s earnings and investor call. Built as an AI workflow-automation system, StackAI designs agents to operate within existing business systems, pulling in data from systems like Salesforce, Slack, and Gsuite. Part of Y Combinator’s Winter ’23 cohort, the company has faced fierce competition from automation tools like Zapier as well as AI labs like OpenAI and Anthropic. StackAI had raised just under $20 million, according to PitchBook data, with most of it coming in a recent $16 million Series A round. That round