There seems to be no stopping the AI train.
AI coding tool startup Cursor has raised $2.3 billion in a new funding round. Existing investors including Accel, Thrive, Andreessen Horowitz, and DST participated in the round, and the round saw participation from new investors including Coatue, NVIDIA, and Google. The round values Cursor at $29.3 billion post-money.
“We’re obsessed with the magical moments in the history of programming with AI. Internally, we often talk about how high the ceiling is for how great Cursor can become, and how much work still remains to get there,” Cursor said in a blogpost. “This funding will allow us to invest deeply in our research and build Cursor’s next magical moments,” it added.
Cursor says that it now has 300 engineers, researchers, designers, and operators, and plans to further expand its footprint. “We’ve also crossed $1B in annualized revenue, counting millions of developers and many of the world’s most accomplished engineering organizations as our customers. And our in-house models now generate more code than almost any other LLMs in the world,” Cursor said.
Cursor was founded in 2022 by MIT graduates Michael Truell, Sualeh Asif, Arvid Lunnemark, and Aman Sanger. It was launched in 2023 as an AI-powered integrated development environment (IDE) for Windows, macOS, and Linux and was forked from the open-source VS Code editor. Cursor uses third-party AI models, such as Claude Sonnet 3.7 and Google Gemini 2.5 Pro to help coders use AI to write code. By April this year, Cursor was writing 1 billion lines of code a day. The company was last valued at $2.5 billion, so its latest fundraise has caused its valuation to rise 12x in around a year.
And Cursor’s success shows that there’s plenty of room to build companies on top of third-party models. There had been some skepticism about such wrapper companies, with some saying that the large AI players would eventually eat their lunch. But with OpenAI having tried to acquire Cursor earlier in the year, and Google now partnering with it at a valuation of $29.3 billion, it appears that the so-called wrappers like Cursor aren’t going anywhere.