Workday to acquire Sana for $1.1 billion

Workday, the enterprise AI platform for managing people, money, and agents, has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Sana, a Stockholm AI company building the next generation of enterprise knowledge tools. Since its founding in 2016, Sana has developed intuitive workplace tools that elevate humans with AI.

Sana’s core products, Sana Learn and Sana Agents, have already served over one million users across hundreds of enterprises. In addition to powering a new Workday experience, Sana will continue to develop Sana Learn and Sana Agents. As part of Workday, Sana will be able to accelerate its growth and deliver even more innovation to its customers at scale.

“Sana’s team, AI-native approach, and beautiful design perfectly align with our vision to reimagine the future of work,” said Gerrit Kazmaier, president, Product & Technology at Workday.  

“This will make Workday the new front door for work, delivering a proactive, personalised, and intelligent experience that unlocks unmatched AI capabilities for the workplace.”

“Our focus has always been on creating intuitive AI tools that improve how people learn and work,” said Joel Hellermark, founder and CEO of Sana.  

“I’m excited to bring these tools to 75 million Workday users and partner with Workday’s iconic team to launch a new era of superintelligence for work.”

With Sana, Workday will create the work experience of the future, where enterprise knowledge, data and actions converge into one. Leveraging Workday’s unique data and context around people and money — as well as a rich ecosystem of builders and partners — the employee experience will become personalised and proactive, better anticipating employee needs based on their role, team, and projects. 

For example, hiring managers will be able to generate tailored dashboards to monitor their live recruitment pipeline, automate the end-to-end performance review process, and receive proactive suggestions on onboarding new hires based on real-time performance data.

The transaction is expected to close in the fourth quarter of Workday’s fiscal year 2026, ending January 31, 2026, subject to the satisfaction of customary closing conditions.