May 28 report, collaboration giant Asana officially announced on Thursday afternoon, along with the release of its financial results and investor call, that it has acquired workflow automation startup StackAI for $75 million. This move is a key step in Asana's strategy to reshape itself as an AI-native office platform, aiming to make it "the operating system for human-machine teams." After the acquisition, StackAI founders Tony Rosinol and Bernard Aceituno will join Asana to advance product integration.

As a member of Y Combinator's Winter 2023 incubation program, StackAI is a no-code AI workflow automation system. Its designed intelligent agents can deeply integrate into existing business systems of enterprises and efficiently extract data from platforms such as Salesforce, Slack, and G Suite. The company has raised nearly $20 million in funding so far, including a $16 million Series A round led by prominent institutions and individuals such as Gradient and Guillermo Rauch, CEO of Vercel.

Although StackAI faces fierce competition from traditional automation tools like Zapier, as well as top AI labs like OpenAI and Anthropic, Asana believes its deep integration with existing enterprise workflows is a critical moat. This enables the platform to access contextual information and training data that other tools cannot obtain.

Currently, the AI wave is reshaping the collaborative office market. Since the launch of ChatGPT, Asana has faced pressure in the public market, with its market value shrinking by more than half, and it also experienced the pain of its founder Dustin Moskovitz stepping down as CEO in March of last year. However, with steady revenue growth, current CEO Dan Rogers is confident in the next generation of human-machine collaboration products.