# Will Young

> Will Young is the co-founder and CEO of Sana, an Austin-based tech-enabled health plan that aims to cut small-business health insurance costs by up to 30%. A Stanford and Harvard Business School graduate who passed through Google and Justworks before starting a company in an industry he had no background in, Young bet that being an outsider was the advantage. Sana launched in 2018, went fully remote from day one against investor advice, and by its $60M Series B in 2022 had raised roughly $107M total while operating across eight states.

- **Role:** Co-founder & CEO at Sana
- **Organizations:** Sana (Sana Benefits), Justworks, Google, William Morris Endeavor
- **Nationality:** American
- **Education:** BA, International Relations (incl. Stanford Overseas Studies at Peking University), Stanford University, MBA, Harvard Business School
- **Known for:** Co-founded and scaled Sana to hundreds of employees and operations across eight states, Raised roughly $107M across seed, Series A, and Series B rounds, Built Sana as a fully remote company from inception, against investor advice

## Career timeline

- **early career** — Business development / content partnerships at Google in Los Angeles; earlier work at William Morris Endeavor
- **pre-2017** — Head of operations, then product team lead, at Justworks in New York
- **2017-2018** — Co-founded Sana with Nathan Hackley; company launched in fall 2018
- **2019** — Sana raises $6.3M seed round
- **2020** — Sana closes $20.8M Series A to take on the 'Big 5' insurers
- **2021** — Sana raises a $20M Series A extension
- **2022** — Launches Sana MD clinic in Austin (January); raises $60M Series B, ~$107M total funding, operating in 8 states

## Achievements

- Co-founded and scaled Sana to hundreds of employees and operations across eight states
- Raised roughly $107M across seed, Series A, and Series B rounds
- Built Sana as a fully remote company from inception, against investor advice
- Launched the Sana MD clinic in Austin in January 2022
- Brought health coverage to small businesses, ~40% of whom previously couldn't afford employee health plans in new markets

## Latest updates

- **2022-01** — Sana opened the Sana MD clinic in Austin, with demand exceeding expectations.
- **2022-06** — Sana closed a $60M Series B co-led by Trust Ventures and Gigafund, bringing total funding to about $107M while operating in eight states.

## Links

- Website: https://sanabenefits.com
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/williamcyoung
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/sanabenefits
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNbNh4ecttA
- Facebook: https://facebook.com/sanabenefits/

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Last updated: 2026-06-04