Founder Profile
Aman Sanger
Last reviewed: September 2026 · By Swet Parvadiya
Background
Aman Sanger possesses a deeply analytical background spanning elite computer science and hedge fund environments. Beyond his formal education at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), his critical early background includes highly selective software engineering internships at Google and the massive hedge fund Bridgewater Associates. This incredibly rigorous background in navigating high-stakes technical environments provided the exact operational blueprint he needed to serve as Anysphere's COO.
Founding Story
Aman Sanger is an American entrepreneur and one of the four highly influential co-founders of Anysphere, the startup behind the revolutionary Cursor AI code editor. Born to Indian immigrant parents, Sanger began coding in his early teens before attending the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he met his future co-founders. Launching Anysphere in 2022, Sanger and his team built Cursor with the strict philosophy of natively embedding AI into the IDE rather than relying on clunky chatbots. Under his operational leadership as Chief Operating Officer, Cursor exploded in popularity among elite developers. In a massive industry shakeup in 2026, SpaceX acquired Anysphere in an all-stock deal valued at roughly $60 billion, instantly cementing Sanger as one of the youngest billionaires in the global technology sector.