# Antoni Rosinol

> Antoni Rosinol, also known as Toni Rosinol, is the San Francisco-based co-founder and CEO of StackAI. An MIT-trained robotics researcher, he worked on spatial perception and open-source mapping software before building an enterprise AI workflow platform with Bernardo Aceituno. Asana acquired StackAI in May 2026, with both co-founders joining Asana.

- **Role:** Co-Founder & CEO at StackAI (acquired by Asana)
- **Organizations:** StackAI, Asana, MIT SPARK Lab, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, GoPro, Velohub AG, University of Zurich Robotics and Perception Group
- **From:** Barcelona, Spain
- **Nationality:** Spanish
- **Education:** BSc, Mechanical Engineering, EPFL, Visiting undergraduate / exchange student, Nanyang Technological University, MSc, Robotics, Systems and Control, ETH Zurich, PhD, Aeronautics and Astronautics; thesis: 3D Spatial Perception: With Real-Time Dense Metric-Semantic SLAM, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- **Known for:** Co-winner of the 2018 Siemens FutureMakers Challenge; Siemens committed $140,000 to follow-up research., Co-author of Kimera and lead author of the 2020 3D Dynamic Scene Graphs paper., UltimateSLAM received a 2018 IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters Best Paper Award honorable mention, presented in 2019.

## Career timeline

- **2015-2016** — Aerial robotics software engineering internship at GoPro in Zurich.
- **2016-2017** — Co-founder and CTO of Velohub AG; worked on Blinkers smart bicycle lights.
- **2017** — Research assistant at the University of Zurich Robotics and Perception Group.
- **2018** — Began PhD studies at MIT; won Siemens FutureMakers Challenge with Sebastien Mannai.
- **2019** — Open-source release of Kimera, robot localization and mapping software.
- **2021** — Worked at NASA/JPL on the CoSTAR team for the DARPA Subterranean Challenge; participated in MIT delta v.
- **2022** — StackAI founded with Bernardo Aceituno, according to the company’s funding announcement.
- **2023** — Received MIT doctorate in February; StackAI joined YC Winter 2023 and launched publicly in April.
- **2025** — StackAI announced $16 million Series A on May 6.
- **2026** — Asana announced completion of its StackAI acquisition on May 28; the co-founders joined Asana.

## Achievements

- Co-winner of the 2018 Siemens FutureMakers Challenge; Siemens committed $140,000 to follow-up research.
- Co-author of Kimera and lead author of the 2020 3D Dynamic Scene Graphs paper.
- UltimateSLAM received a 2018 IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters Best Paper Award honorable mention, presented in 2019.
- Received la Caixa and Rafael del Pino fellowships.
- Co-founded StackAI, which announced a $16 million Series A in May 2025 and was acquired by Asana in May 2026.

## Latest updates

- **2026-03** — StackAI published its manifesto emphasizing enterprise control and governed AI agents.
- **2026-05** — Asana completed its acquisition of StackAI. Its earnings call described approximately $75 million in upfront cash consideration plus an equity-based earn-out opportunity.
- **2026-06** — Discussed his education, Y Combinator experience and enterprise pivot on the Samaipata podcast.

## Links

- Website: https://www.mit.edu/~arosinol/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rosinol
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/RosinolToni
- GitHub: https://github.com/ToniRV

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