Koala (team)
2025
Why
Hired engineers from AI CRM startup Koala to build an enterprise-readiness team.
Impact
Cursor did not adopt Koala's product, which shut down.
Anysphere Inc. (Cursor)
AI Coding AgentsFounded 2022- HQ today: San Francisco, California, United States
Reviewed by Swet Parvadiya
Company data updated: October 2026
Acquisitions
Cursor Acquisitions
3
Major Deals Covered
What are Cursor's biggest acquisitions?
This page covers 3 major deals from 2024 to 2025, each with its price where disclosed and the reason behind it.
- Major deals covered
- 3
- First deal
- 2024
- Most recent
- 2025
| Company | Year | Price | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
| Supermaven | 2024 | Undisclosed | AI code-completion startup founded by Jacob Jackson, bought to improve Cursor Tab. |
| Koala (team) | 2025 | Undisclosed | Hired engineers from AI CRM startup Koala to build an enterprise-readiness team. |
| Graphite | 2025 | Undisclosed | New York code-review startup, bought in a cash-and-equity deal reported to be well above its last $290 million valuation. |
- What companies has Cursor bought?
- Major acquisitions by Cursor documented here include Koala (team) (2025), Graphite (2025) and Supermaven (2024).
- What is Cursor's most recent acquisition?
- The most recent Cursor acquisition documented here is Koala (team), in 2025.
Graphite
2025
Why
New York code-review startup, bought in a cash-and-equity deal reported to be well above its last $290 million valuation.
Impact
Extends Cursor from writing code into reviewing and merging it.
Supermaven
2024
Why
AI code-completion startup founded by Jacob Jackson, bought to improve Cursor Tab.
Impact
Team merged into Cursor; Supermaven's standalone product was wound down in late 2025.
Anysphere Inc. (Cursor)'s Growth & Acquisition Strategy
Cursor grew bottom-up: developers adopted it on their own, then companies bought team licenses. It now focuses on enterprise sales, with business customers making up about three-quarters of revenue by mid-2026. Product expansion moved from the editor into background and cloud agents, a command-line agent, web and mobile access, Bugbot code review and the Graphite code-review platform it acquired in December 2025. It also builds its own models (Composer, Composer 2) to cut costs and reduce reliance on other labs.
How Anysphere Inc. (Cursor) Makes Money
Cursor makes money from subscriptions. A free Hobby tier lets developers try the editor and agent with limited usage. Paid individual plans (Pro at $20 a month, with higher-usage tiers above it) include a monthly allowance of frontier-model usage, and heavy users pay for extra usage at model API rates. Teams and Enterprise plans are billed per seat and add SSO, admin controls, usage analytics, model controls and privacy guarantees. In 2025 Cursor moved Pro from a fixed count of 500 requests to usage-based limits tied to model cost. By mid-2026 about 75% of Cursor's annualized revenue came from businesses rather than individual developers, according to the company. The main cost is model inference, paid to providers such as Anthropic, OpenAI and Google, which is why Cursor trains its own Composer and Tab models.
Cursor Acquisitions FAQ
What companies has Cursor acquired?
Supermaven (November 2024), a team from Koala (July 2025) and Graphite (agreed December 2025).
Why did Cursor buy Supermaven?
To strengthen Cursor Tab code completion. Supermaven's standalone product was later shut down.
How much did Cursor pay for Graphite?
Terms were not disclosed; reports said the cash-and-equity deal was well above Graphite's last $290 million valuation.
Who acquired Cursor?
SpaceX, for $60 billion in stock; the deal closed on August 14, 2026.
Why did SpaceX buy Cursor?
To own a leading AI coding product and pair it with xAI's Grok models and SpaceX compute in its SpaceXAI unit.
Has Cursor acquired any companies?
No, they are currently a hyper-growth startup entirely focused on engineering their core product. Rather than acquiring companies, they are aggressively using their massive venture funding to secure expensive GPU compute power to keep their AI editor incredibly fast.
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