Who Founded Cursor?

Michael Truell is co-founder and CEO of Anysphere (Cursor). He co-founded the company in 2022 as an MIT student and led it through funding rounds at $400 million, $9.9 billion and $29.3 billion valuations, the growth of annualized revenue past $4 billion, and the $60 billion sale to SpaceX in 2026. He remained CEO after the deal closed. Press reports described him as 25 years old at the time of the acquisition and noted that he used Cursor's developer community as a hiring pipeline. (Exact birth year remains publicly undisclosed).

Sualeh Asif co-founded Anysphere (Cursor) in 2022 alongside his MIT peers. Recognizing the limitations of GitHub Copilot's autocomplete, he helped build a fork of VS Code deeply integrated with LLMs, allowing developers to generate and edit code across entire codebases seamlessly. (Exact birth year remains publicly undisclosed).

Aman Sanger is a co-founder of Anysphere who works on Cursor's models and research. In March 2026 he publicly acknowledged that not mentioning the Kimi base model in the Composer 2 launch post was a miss. (Exact birth year remains publicly undisclosed).

Arvid Lunnemark co-founded Anysphere in 2022. As a technical co-founder, he engineered the complex backend infrastructure required to securely and rapidly parse massive user codebases for Cursor's context-aware AI models. (Exact birth year remains publicly undisclosed).