Asana acquires no-code agent-builder Stack AI

Asana has acquired the workflow automation company Stack AI for $75 million, part of a larger effort to position itself as an AI-native workplace platform. Stack AI’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 , Stack AI 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. Stack AI 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 included funding from Gradient, Epaklon Capital, Lobby VC, LifeX Ventures, and Vercel CEO Guillermo Rauch. While users are likely most familiar with Asana’s work management system, the company has released a number of AI-oriented products in recent years, most notably the AI Studio agent builder and AI Teammates series of pre-built automations. …