Company Overview Cursor, developed by the San Francisco-based startup Anysphere , has rapidly evolved from a niche developer tool into the central nervous system of modern software engineering. Founded in 2022 by four MIT students—most notably co-founder Aman Sanger , who began coding at age 14, and CEO Michael Truell —Cursor is an AI-native code editor built on top of VS Code but fundamentally reimagined for agentic workflows. Anysphere’s mission is to make developers "extraordinarily productive" by shifting the paradigm from simple autocomplete to full-context AI coding agents. The company’s growth trajectory is nothing short of explosive, serving as a benchmark for the AI era. In mid-2024, Cursor secured a Series A valuation of $400 million. By January 2025, that valuation had climbed to $2.5 billion. Most significantly, in November 2025, Anysphere closed a massive $2.3 billion Series D round at a $29.3 billion valuation .…