Tag: Asana
ClickUp CEO talks hiring, raising and scaling in the white-hot productivity space
Few young software companies have had as great a year as San Diego-based ClickUp. The company, which makes business productivity tools for task management, goals and docs, raised its first bit of outside funding in mid-2020. Just six months later, it has reached a $1 billion valuation after doubling its…
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The good SaaS times will end and challenges are coming
Ed Byrne Contributor Ed Byrne is an entrepreneur, investor and co-founder of Scaleworks. More posts by this contributor Working backwards to uncover key success factors Netflix is still too cheap We’ve had a great decade-long run in SaaS — abundant capital, a thriving economy and a massive existing market shift…
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Public markets fall yet again as venture deal counts appear to slip
Hello and welcome back to our regular morning look at private companies, public markets and the gray space in between. All around, this has been a tough week. The coronavirus is spreading and worry is running high as infections mount. In economic terms, global markets were repeated declines last night…
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As 5 more startups join the $100M club, are we just making a pre-IPO list?
Hello and welcome back to our regular morning look at private companies, public markets and the gray space in between. Today we’re adding five names to the $100 million annual recurring revenue (ARR) club and listing all preceding members in a single post. This series, which was a bit of an…
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Does Asana’s planned direct listing reveal the company’s true value?
Hello and welcome back to our regular morning look at private companies, public markets and the gray space in between. Asana, a well-known workplace productivity company, announced yesterday it has filed privately to go public. The San Francisco-based company is well-funded, having raised more than $200 million; well-known, due in…
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Asana files to go public, says it will do so via a trendy direct listing
Workplace productivity toolmaker Asana announced late Monday that they have confidentially filed their S-1 and said in a statement that they plan to enter the public markets via a direct listing. Direct listings enable a company to go public without issuing new shares, instead allowing existing shareholders to sell shares…
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