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Cursor

cursor.com

Cursor builds an AI coding agent that helps developers understand, write, debug, and review software.

HQSan Francisco, California, United States
Employees51-200
Funding$3.38B
Valuation$29.3B
Revenue$48M ARR
134 active roles
Profile 8mo agoJobs checked 3d ago
Specialization
Not classified
Business
Software Applications
Market
Software Development
Ecosystem
Agents
Customers
Developersand 1 more customers values
  • Enterprises
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Organization type
Commercial Company
Ecosystem
Agents
Business
Software Applications
Specialization
Not classified
Market
Software Development
Customers
Developers, Enterprises
Delivery models
On Premise Software
Revenue models
Subscription, Usage Based
Listing status
Not classified
Latest equity round
Series D
Reported funding amount
$1B+

About

Cursor, operated by Anysphere, builds an AI coding agent and development environment that helps developers understand codebases, plan and build features, fix bugs, review changes, and connect existing engineering tools. It sells to individual developers, teams, and enterprise engineering organizations, differentiating through natural-language, agentic software-development workflows rather than simple code completion.

Market

Cursor competes in the AI coding-assistant and agentic software-development-tools market, positioning itself as an applied research lab and coding agent for building ambitious software. Its differentiation is an integrated AI coding-agent experience inside a software-development environment, aimed at teams rather than only lightweight code-completion use cases.

Target Customers

Software engineers and professional software-development teams building ambitious or world-class software are Cursor’s primary customers. The likely buyers and users are developers, engineering teams, and technical leaders seeking to improve developer productivity; the available evidence does not specify a narrow company-size segment.

At a Glance

Problem

Software development is constrained not only by typing code, but by the costly cognitive work around it: understanding an unfamiliar codebase, finding the right files and dependencies, translating requirements into implementation plans, debugging, reviewing changes, and moving work through Git workflows. Cursor targets this productivity bottleneck by letting developers delegate substantial software tasks to an AI agent while retaining responsibility for decisions and review. The economic value is faster engineering throughput and greater leverage from scarce developer time; NVIDIA, for example, says its engineers’ productivity has increased substantially with Cursor.

The killer use case is handing Cursor a feature, bug, or refactoring task and having it investigate the repository, ask clarifying questions, produce a plan, implement changes across files, and prepare a pull request. This is more valuable than simple autocomplete because it compresses an end-to-end development workflow, while still allowing engineers to inspect diffs and approve or revise the result.

Product / Service

Cursor is an AI-native code editor and coding-agent platform. Its Tab feature provides context-aware autocomplete based on recent edits, surrounding code, and linter errors, while its agent can search a codebase semantically, retrieve relevant context on demand, follow project-specific rules and skills, and work across multiple files. Developers can select among frontier models from providers including OpenAI, Anthropic, and Gemini, rather than being locked to one model.

The product is delivered through the desktop development environment as well as cloud agents available from the web, mobile, Slack, and GitHub. A developer can delegate a task to a cloud agent, which clones the repository, creates a branch, works autonomously, opens a pull request, and notifies the user for review and merging. Cursor also sells an enterprise layer with centralized identity, budgets, model and feature controls, usage analytics, encryption, privacy mode, and SOC 2 Type II compliance, making the product deployable across large engineering organizations.

Market

Cursor competes in the rapidly expanding market for AI coding assistants, AI-native code editors, and agentic software-development platforms. Its closest alternatives include GitHub Copilot for in-flow assistance, Windsurf and Cline as other AI coding environments, and terminal- or agent-oriented products such as Claude Code and OpenAI Codex. The competitive distinction Cursor emphasizes is the combination of a polished IDE, codebase-aware agents, model choice, and an increasingly autonomous path from task description to reviewed pull request.

Cursor is well beyond the pre-revenue stage. Anysphere reported more than $1 billion in annualized revenue, millions of developer customers, and a $2.3 billion Series D at a $29.3 billion post-money valuation in November 2025. The company also says Cursor is trusted by more than half of the Fortune 500; its enterprise site reports usage by 53% of Fortune 1000 companies, more than 50,000 enterprises, and over 100 million lines of enterprise code written per day. These figures are company-reported, but together indicate substantial enterprise traction and a category-leading position rather than an early product searching for demand.

Founders & Leadership

Michael TruellFounder
Co-founder and CEO
Sualeh AsifFounder
Co-founder and CPO
Aman SangerFounder
Co-founder
Arvid LunnemarkFounder
Former co-founder
Jordan TopoleskiChief Operating Officer

Funding History

2022-04
Seed$200K

Alameda Research

2023-10
Seed$8M

OpenAI Startup Fund

2024-08
Series A$60M

Andreessen Horowitz

2024-12
Series B$105M

Thrive Capital

2025-05
Series C$900M

Thrive Capital

2025-11
Series D$2.3B

Accel, Coatue

Recent News

2026-09-06partnership
Mastra proposes ending partnership with Cursor

Mastra said it was ending its partnership with Cursor following Cursor's acquisition by SpaceX. Mastra stated that, under its proposal, Cursor's direct access to Mastra's models would end on November 12.

2026-09-03product_launch
xAI launches Grok Bot for Enterprise

xAI announced that Grok Bot is available for enterprise customers, adding access, network and audit controls for organization-wide use. Grok and Cursor Enterprise customers receive free usage for two weeks, and xAI cited Legora, Supermicro and ServiceTitan among organizations using Grok Bot.

2026-08-29partnership
OpenAI to end model access to Cursor after SpaceX acquisition

OpenAI said it would wind down its agreement supplying models to Cursor after SpaceX acquired the coding-tool company. OpenAI cited concerns that SpaceX might not use its technology within its terms of service; the proposed cutoff date is November 12, 2026, while Cursor said OpenAI models account for about 5% of its user traffic and that the companies were discussing the decision.

2026-08-26product_launch
xAI expands Grok Bot access to SuperGrok and Cursor plans

xAI expanded access to Grok Bot, making it available with SuperGrok, Cursor Pro, and all Cursor Teams plans. The expansion includes separate Grok Bot usage and access to AI agents that can work across users’ tools and applications.

2026-08-22product_launch
AgentMail launches official Cursor plugin integration for Grok Bot

AgentMail announced availability as an official Cursor plugin in Grok Bot, allowing users to install it from the plugin browser. The integration gives each bot its own real email address and access to 24 email tools.

2026-08-21product_launch
xAI expands Grok Bot availability to more plans

xAI expanded access to Grok Bot on August 21, making it available to SuperGrok Plus, Cursor Pro+, and Cursor Teams plans. The company said Grok Bot is designed to act as an AI teammate capable of completing work across users’ existing tools.

2026-08-19product_launch
Cursor announces Cloud Agents and harness improvements

On August 19, 2026, Cursor announced improvements to Cloud Agents and its agent harness. The update added event-triggered agent subscriptions, including PR, Slack, and scheduled-task workflows, along with custom modes, virtual machines for subagents, long-running goals, and improved steering controls.

2026-08-19product_launch
Context.dev launches Cursor integration

Context.dev launched a plugin for Cursor on August 19, 2026. The plugin provides an OAuth-connected MCP server with 34 typed tools, 11 skills, four slash commands, and rules for web research, document parsing, brand intelligence, monitoring, and batch work.

2026-08-17product_launch
Cursor launches Origin code hosting in early beta

Cursor began rolling out Origin on August 17, 2026, an early-beta code-hosting product for paid-plan users. Origin supports repositories, pull requests, code browsing, GitHub synchronization, and integrations with tools including Vercel, Depot, and Buildkite.

2026-08-17product_launch
Depot CI becomes available in Cursor Origin

Depot announced that Depot CI became available in Origin, Cursor’s early-beta code-hosting service. The integration lets users connect Depot to Origin, migrate existing GitHub Actions workflows, and trigger CI runs from Origin-hosted repositories.

2026-08-14ma
SpaceX completes its $60 billion acquisition of Cursor

Cursor announced that it had officially been acquired by SpaceX, completing the acquisition process that began earlier in the year. Public reporting valued the transaction at $60 billion and said the combination gives Cursor access to SpaceX’s large GPU infrastructure.

2026-08-12product_launch
xAI releases Grok 4.6

xAI released Grok 4.6, a model focused on long-running agents and more ambitious interactive and visual work. It was made available through Grok Build, Cursor, the xAI API, and partners including OpenRouter, Vercel, and Cloudflare.

2026-08-11product_launch
xAI launches Grok Bot

xAI launched Grok Bot in beta as a team of always-on AI agents with their own computer that can operate across tools, apps, inboxes, and other workflows. The product was made available to SuperGrok Heavy, Cursor Ultra, and Cursor Teams Premium subscribers on desktop and iOS.

2026-08-06partnership
Cursor joins Agent Plugins 1.0 standard with major AI vendors

Cursor joined the multi-vendor Agent Plugins 1.0.0 initiative, an open standard for packaging Agent Skills and MCP servers for AI agents. Cursor was named among the initial Technical Steering Committee’s core maintainers and was supported as a compatible client at launch.

2026-07-22product_launch
Cursor launches Cursor Router

Cursor launched Cursor Router on July 22, 2026, an intelligent model router for teams and enterprises that automatically selects models based on task requirements. Cursor reported frontier-quality performance at lower cost and made the product available across desktop, web, iOS, CLI, and its SDK for Teams and Enterprise plans.

2026-04-02product_launch
Meet the new Cursor

Cursor introduced Cursor 3, a unified workspace for building software with agents and a new interface designed to clarify agents' work.

2026-01-08partnership
EPAM and Cursor Announce Strategic Partnership to Build and Scale AI-Native Teams for Global Enterprises

EPAM and Cursor announced a strategic partnership focused on scaling AI-native engineering teams for global enterprises.

2025-11-13funding
Past, Present, and Future — Series D and Scale

Cursor announced a $2.3 billion Series D financing at a $29.3 billion post-money valuation to support the company's continued growth and product development.

Active Roles

134
Hybrid - Japan/Operations/3d ago
OnSite - New York; San Francisco/Engineering/4d ago
OnSite - San Francisco/Engineering/6d ago
Remote - Japan; Singapore; Japan/Forward-Deployed Engineer/9d ago
OnSite - Palo Alto, CA/Engineering/9d ago
Remote - Japan/Marketing/10d ago
OnSite - San Francisco; New York/Design/11d ago
OnSite - San Francisco/Marketing/12d ago
Remote - Remote/Marketing/16d ago
Remote - Australia/Sales/17d ago
Remote - Australia/Sales/17d ago
Remote - Philippines; Singapore/Sales/19d ago
Remote - Japan/Technical Account Manager/19d ago
Remote - South Korea/Sales Engineer/19d ago
Remote - South Korea/Sales/19d ago
Bengaluru; New Delhi; Mumbai/Forward-Deployed Engineer/21d ago
Remote - Singapore; New Delhi; Mumbai/Forward-Deployed Engineer/21d ago
Remote - Singapore; Australia/Implementation Engineer/23d ago
Remote - Remote/Customer Success Manager/24d ago

Business Model

Cursor uses a freemium and subscription SaaS model: a free Hobby plan is complemented by paid individual and team plans, including a $20-per-month individual plan and a $40-per-user Teams plan. Enterprise plans are priced per seat with included usage, while organizations can pre-commit additional usage for high-volume teams.

Products

Cursor coding agentCursor AI-powered coding platform and software development environment

Customers

NVIDIASamsungOpenAIStripeMidjourneyPerplexityReplicateShopifyInstacart

Tech Stack

AI/MLAI coding-agent technologySoftware development environment

Competitors

GitHub Copilot
Windsurf
Devin
Claude Code
OpenAI Codex
Replit Agent

Key Investors

Thrive Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, DST Global, Coatue, Nvidia, Google Ventures, Accel, others