Cursor (Anysphere)

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Location San Francisco, California
Founded 2022
Latest Stage Series D
Total Raised $3.5B
Website https://cursor.com
Sector
ai developer-tools code-editor

Investors

Patrick Collison series-a (2024)
Joshua Kushner Series B ($105M at $2.5B, co-lead) (2024)
Philippe Laffont 2025 (2025)
Miles Grimshaw Series B ($105M) (2025)
Mike Volpi — (2025)
Andrew Braccia 2025 (2025)
Ali Rowghani Angel (2023)
Sarah Tavel Series B (2024)
Arash Ferdowsi Seed ($8M round) (2023)
Martin Casado ~2023 (2023)
Nat Friedman Seed ($8M) (2023)
Tom Preston-Werner ~2022–2023 (2022)
Thomas Laffont Series D ($2.3B, Co-Led) (2025)
Ali Partovi Seed (2022)
David Tisch Seed (2023)
Ian Hathaway Seed ($8M, led) (2023)
Adam Rothenberg Seed (2022)
Brad Lightcap Seed ($8M, led) (2023)
Andreessen Horowitz series-a (2024)
Thrive Capital series-a (2024)
Thrive Capital series-b (2024)
Thrive Capital series-c (2025)
Andreessen Horowitz series-c (2025)
DST Global series-c (2025)
Coatue Management series-d (2025)
stripe Seed (2024)
Hanabi Capital — (2025)
Accel 2025 (2025)
first-harmonic Angel (2023)
Benchmark Series B (2024)
Pear VC Seed ($8M round) (2023)
Index Ventures — (2025)
NFDG Seed ($8M) (2023)
preston-werner-ventures ~2022–2023 (2022)
Neo Seed (2022)
BoxGroup Seed (2023)
OpenAI Startup Fund Seed ($8M, led) (2023)

Founders

Michael Truell CEO & Co-Founder
Sualeh Asif Co-Founder
Arvid Lunnemark Co-Founder
Aman Sanger Co-Founder

About

Cursor is an AI-powered code editor built by Anysphere, founded in 2022 by Michael Truell, Sualeh Asif, Arvid Lunnemark, and Aman Sanger while students at MIT 1. The product is a fork of Visual Studio Code with integrated AI-assisted coding capabilities and is used by over 50% of the Fortune 500 2. Bloomberg has described it as “the fastest growing startup ever” 3.

Funding History

Date Round Amount Lead Co-investors
Apr 2022 Pre-Seed $400K Neo — 4
Oct 2023 Seed $8M OpenAI Startup Fund Nat Friedman, Arash Ferdowsi 1
Aug 2024 Series A $60M a16z, Thrive Capital (co-lead) Patrick Collison 5
Dec 2024 Series B $105M Thrive Capital — 3
Jun 2025 Series C $900M Thrive Capital Andreessen Horowitz, Accel, DST Global 3
Nov 2025 Series D $2.3B Accel, Coatue (co-lead) Thrive Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, DST Global, NVIDIA, Google 2

Total raised: approximately $3.5B. Valued at $29.3B as of Series D 2.

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Sources

  1. TechCrunch, “Anysphere raises $8M from OpenAI to build an AI-powered IDE,” October 11, 2023, accessed March 2026. https://techcrunch.com/2023/10/11/anysphere-raises-8m-from-openai-to-build-an-ai-powered-ide/↩↩

  2. TechFundingNews, “Anysphere’s Cursor soars to $29B valuation with $2.3B round led by Accel, Coatue,” November 14, 2025, accessed March 2026. https://techfundingnews.com/anysphere-soars-to-29-3b-valuation-with-2-3b-funding-redefining-the-future-of-coding/↩↩↩

  3. Crunchbase News, “AI-Powered Coding Tool Anysphere Raises $900M at $9.9B Valuation,” June 2025, accessed March 2026. https://news.crunchbase.com/ai/anysphere-cursor-venture-funding-thrive/↩↩↩

  4. Contrary Research, “Cursor Business Breakdown & Founding Story,” accessed March 2026. https://research.contrary.com/company/cursor↩

  5. TechCrunch, “Anysphere, a GitHub Copilot rival, has raised an over $60M Series A at $400M valuation from a16z, Thrive, sources say,” August 9, 2024, accessed March 2026. https://techcrunch.com/2024/08/09/anysphere-a-github-copilot-rival-has-raised-60m-series-a-at-400m-valuation-from-a16z-thrive-sources-say/↩