Anysphere, the corporate behind Cursor, the AI-enabled coding platform, has raised a $900 million funding, led by Thrive Capital, Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), and Accel Ventures, the Monetary Occasions reported on Monday.
That is mentioned to greater than triple the corporate’s valuation to $9 billion.
In January this 12 months, the corporate additionally raised $105 million in Collection B funding, led by Thrive Capital, a16z, and different current traders. After the funding spherical, the corporate was valued at $2.5 billion.
In September 2023, the corporate raised an preliminary $8 million in funding from OpenAI’s startup fund. In August 2024, Anysphere raised $60 million in Collection A from a16z, Thrive Capital, and different traders.
In line with analysis from Sacra, the AI-enabled coding platform reached $100 million in annual recurring income (ARR) inside 21 months of its inception. It took Cursor solely 12 months to succeed in this determine from $1 million ARR, and was then deemed because the fastest-growing SaaS firm of all time. It solely took two extra months to succeed in $200 million ARR.
The corporate additionally just lately crossed $300 million in ARR, simply two years after launch.
Anysphere was based in 2022 by MIT college students and associates Michael Truell, Sualeh Asif, Arvid Lunnemark, and Aman Sanger. Their imaginative and prescient was to construct an built-in growth surroundings (IDE) that was ‘AI native’, and so they launched Cursor in January 2023 on high of Microsoft’s Visible Studio Code.
Cursor positions itself as an extension of human engineers relatively than a substitute. The corporate asserts, “Utilizing a mix of AI and human ingenuity, they [the hybrid engineers] will out-smart and out-engineer the most effective pure-AI system.” This technique appealed to customers, who favoured Cursor’s workflow over that of Devin, an end-to-end autonomous software program growth device.
Having mentioned that, Cursor competes with a number of different platforms that supply comparable functionalities, contributing to a phenomenon referred to as ‘vibe coding’. Instruments like Windsurf from Codeium, Bolt.new, Lovable, Vercel’s v0, and plenty of extra instruments instantly compete with Cursor.
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