Cursor
Work on a codebase with inline completions, chat and an editing agent.
Anysphere Funding History
Anysphere develops Cursor, an AI code editor. It also acquired the Supermaven code completion plugin and the open-source coding assistant Continue.
Company Overview
Founded 2022 · San Francisco, California, US
Official WebsiteAnysphere Funding Timeline
Series D
US$2.3 billion
Cursor said it would invest further in research and development of its coding tools. It reported passing $1 billion in annualized revenue when it announced the round.
Led by Accel.
Source · cursor.com ↗Series C
US$900 million · $9.9B valuation
Cursor disclosed the financing alongside annual recurring revenue above $500 million and said it would expand AI coding research.
Participation included Thrive Capital, Accel, Andreessen Horowitz, DST Global.
Source · cursor.com ↗Series B
US$105 million
Cursor said the financing would fund hiring and research across coding systems, models and product development.
Participation included Thrive Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, Benchmark.
Source · cursor.com ↗Series A
~US$60 million
Anysphere announced the financing alongside updates to Cursor, its AI code editor.
Led by Andreessen Horowitz, Thrive Capital. Participation included OpenAI.
Source · cursor.com ↗
Anysphere Founding Team
Anysphere is the company behind Cursor. Its founding team worked on how AI assistance could be built directly into a code editor. The founding team included Michael Truell, Sualeh Asif, Arvid Lunnemark, and Aman Sanger.
Anysphere Company Development
Bringing Completion Work into Cursor
Cursor began with an editor that embedded AI in day-to-day coding. The acquisitions of Supermaven and Continue brought in teams behind a completion product and an open-source coding assistant, both close to the interaction between a developer and a repository.
Anysphere Competitive Landscape
The Editor and the Delegated Task
Cursor and Cognition’s Windsurf compete for the editor where a developer works directly. Cognition also offers Devin for assignments delegated to a software-engineering agent, so the overlap in editors is narrower than the overlap in coding tools as a whole.
