# $9 Million in Funding from Benchmark Capital and Andreessen-Horowitz > Efficient group collaboration is crucial to human progress, yet current methods lack real efficiency. Despite tools like email and wikis, communication friction persists, hindering organizations of all sizes. Source: https://asana.com/inside-asana/9-million-in-funding-from-benchmark-capital-and-andreessen-horowitz ## $9 Million in Funding from Benchmark Capital and Andreessen-Horowitz The challenge of groups of people working together effectively is fundamental to human endeavor, but the state of the art falls far short of real efficiency. Despite advances like email and wikis, the friction and overhead of communication remain acutely painful to organizations large and small. Group leaders spend an enormous portion of their time trying to keep everyone on the same page, and knowledge workers struggle daily with inadequate, disparate tools to wrangle the information they need to do their jobs. The technical hurdles to building the right system to address these problems are immense, and the design challenges subtle and complex. The Asana team has thought deeply about these problems for many years, in leadership roles at some of the world’s best software companies. We are undertaking an ambitious project to tackle them with a vision that reimagines the way people manage information, to speed up knowledge work and communication by an order of magnitude. This is not another enterprise application suite, nor is it an ajaxification of existing desktop software concepts; it is a new kind of software product, built for the Web from the ground up, with a focus on speed, collaboration, and ease of use. To help us build the company, we’re bringing in Benchmark Capital and Andreessen-Horowitz. The partners at these firms bring a tremendous amount of experience building companies and helping entrepreneurs reach their goals. Benchmark is leading the $9 million round of funding, and Matt Cohler, with whom we already have a close, trusting relationship, will have a seat on the board. Andreessen-Horowitz is the only other VC firm participating, and we’ve already started enjoying the benefits of Marc’s and Ben’s great wisdom. We plan to use the funding most immediately for growing our team. We’re currently mobilizing a group of world-class peers, and looking for passionate engineers and UI designers to join us. We need people to help us tackle some of the hardest software engineering and computer science problems, including developing a ground-breaking programming system that decimates the time required to build a web application end-to-end. - [Welcoming Kevin Knieriem, Asana’s Chief Revenue Officer](/inside-asana/welcoming-kevin-knieriem-cro) Company Team Asana #### Content writer We’re excited to welcome Kevin Knieriem to Asana as our Chief Revenue Officer.Kevin joins Asana at an important moment for the company and our customers. As organizations move tow ... - [Asana Named a Leader in 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Collaborative Work Management for Third Consecutive Year](/inside-asana/leader-in-2025-gartner-magic-quadrant-collaborative-work-management-report) Company #### Content writer We're pleased to share that for the third year in a row, Asana has been positioned as a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Collaborative Work Management (CWM). We believe, t ... - [Asana’s FY25 ESG Report: Accelerating Impact for People, Planet, and Product](/inside-asana/fy25-asana-esg-report) Company #### Content writer At Asana, our mission is to help humanity thrive by enabling the world’s teams to work together effortlessly. This mission extends far beyond just our product; it’s deeply woven i ... - [Charting a new path: How we’re building the future of work management with Asana Partners](/inside-asana/future-work-management-asana-partners) Company #### Content writer Partners have been integral to Asana’s story from the very beginning. Even before we had an official partner program, we had committed ‘partners’ in our legacy Certified Pros prog ... - [$9 Million in Funding from Benchmark Capital and Andreessen-Horowitz](/inside-asana/9-million-in-funding-from-benchmark-capital-and-andreessen-horowitz) Company The challenge of groups of people working together effectively is fundamental to human endeavor, but the state of the art falls far short of real efficiency. Despite advances like ... - [Company](/inside-asana/company)