Founded in 2022 by Michael Truell, Sualeh Asif, Arvid Lunnemark, and Aman Sanger, Cursor was built with one mission — to make coding with AI feel completely natural. Built as a fork of VS Code, Cursor deeply integrates AI into every aspect of the development workflow including autocomplete, multi-line edits, codebase understanding, and natural language commands. It became the fastest-growing developer tool in history, reaching $100 million ARR in 2024 faster than any previous developer product. In 2025, Cursor raised $900 million at a $9 billion valuation. It is used by engineers at OpenAI, Stripe, Airbnb, and thousands of other top companies globally.
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Michael Truell
Founder / CEO
Michael Truell is the co-founder and CEO of Cursor. A former MIT student, he left to pursue Y Combinator and build what would become the world's most popular AI code editor. Michael and his co-founders believed deeply that AI would transform software development and set out to build a tool that felt completely native to how developers think and work. Under his leadership, Cursor grew from a side project to a $9 billion company used by engineers at the world's top tech companies.
Sualeh Asif
Co-Founder
Sualeh Asif is a co-founder of Cursor. He worked alongside Michael Truell to build the core technology behind Cursor's AI-powered editing experience. With a deep background in machine learning and software engineering, Sualeh has been central to developing Cursor's unique codebase understanding features that allow it to reason about entire projects rather than just individual files, a capability that set it apart from earlier AI coding tools.
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