AI Coding Startup Anysphere Mints 4 New Billionaires

AI coding startup Anysphere completed a $2.3 billion Series D funding round on Thursday, valuing the company at $29.3 billion. Accel and Coatue co-led the round, with substantial investments from tech giants like Nvidia and Google. Anysphere’s flagship product is Cursor, an AI code editor.

As a result of this new funding round, the four co-founders of Anysphere, who all met at MIT as undergraduates and founded the startup in 2022, have become billionaires for the first time, per Inc.

The four co-founders are Michael Truell (Cursor CEO), Sualeh Asif (chief product officer), Arvind Lunnemark (former chief technology officer) and Aman Sanger (chief operating officer). Forbes estimates that each founder holds a 4.5% stake in the company worth at least $1.3 billion. All four founders are under 30 years old.

Anysphere’s ascent has been rapid. In January, the startup became the fastest-growing company to hit $100 million in annual revenue, reaching the milestone in 14 months. Anysphere is the fastest-growing startup of all time, according to its investors. The startup has grown nearly 12-fold in valuation since January and has reached annual recurring revenue exceeding $1 billion in the past two years.

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Millions of software developers on teams at Nvidia, Adobe and Uber use Cursor, per Forbes. The tool has skyrocketed in popularity among individual developers since its launch last year.

Anysphere has grown because of “the value” the company’s Cursor AI tool offers software developers, Truell told Bloomberg earlier this year. Cursor can generate new code based on prompts, a practice known as vibe coding. It also acts as a spell check for code, automatically correcting errors.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said the tool was his “favorite enterprise AI service” in an interview with CNBC in October. Google CEO Sundar Pichai said he was using Cursor to help vibe code a webpage in June.

Cursor’s co-founders aren’t alone in their newly minted billionaire status. Last month, the three co-founders of AI recruiting startup Mercor became the youngest self-made billionaires in history after the startup secured a $350 million funding round that valued the company at $10 billion. Each of the three founders is 22 years old and beat out Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who became a billionaire at age 23 in 2008.

Related: Want to Build an App? Here’s How ‘Vibe Coding’ with AI Can Help You Do It in Minutes.

AI coding startup Anysphere completed a $2.3 billion Series D funding round on Thursday, valuing the company at $29.3 billion. Accel and Coatue co-led the round, with substantial investments from tech giants like Nvidia and Google. Anysphere’s flagship product is Cursor, an AI code editor.

As a result of this new funding round, the four co-founders of Anysphere, who all met at MIT as undergraduates and founded the startup in 2022, have become billionaires for the first time, per Inc.