Thanks to Al Gore’s fund, this Facebook cofounder’s startup is now worth $900 million (FB)

Asana

• The collaboration and productivity application company Asana raised $ 75 million in a series D, the company announced Tuesday. 
• Asana is now valued around  $ 900 million, according to sources close to the company. 
• Asana CEO Dustin Moskovitz is known for starting Facebook with Mark Zuckerberg in 2004.
• The round was led by Al Gore’s sustainable asset management firm Generation Investment Management. Founders Fund, the investment firm founded by PayPal cofounder Peter Thiel, also joined the round. 

Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz’s productivity company Asana has raised $ 75 million in a new funding round, the company announced Tuesday. 

Asana is now valued around $ 900 million, sources close to the company tell us — bringing the company closer than ever to the coveted $ 1 billion “unicorn” status. Asana specializes in collaboration software that helps teams work together, and ideally rely less on e-mail. 

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