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Anysphere raises $60M Series A for AI coding tool Cursor

The startup behind Cursor, an AI-native code editor, announces a $60 million Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz and Thrive Capital, with participation from OpenAI, Jeff Dean, Noam Brown, and the founders of Stripe, GitHub, Ramp, Perplexity, and OpenAI.

Anysphere, the startup behind the AI-native code editor Cursor, today announced a $60 million Series A funding round led by Andreessen Horowitz and Thrive Capital, with participation from OpenAI, Jeff Dean, Noam Brown, and the founders of Stripe, GitHub, Ramp, Perplexity, and OpenAI.

The announcement follows a flurry of demos, headlines, and waitlists. Cursor now claims over 40,000 customers, including startups, research labs, and enterprises. The company says its systems include “state-of-the-art next-edit-prediction models, multi-billion-file retrieval systems, and fast code rewrites through speculative inference.” The company says it is excited about the future of coding.

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Cursor's viral growth continued through 2025, with the company raising a Series B in January 2025 and a Series C in June 2025, reaching a valuation over $3 billion. The tool became a standard recommendation in developer tooling stacks, and its approach influenced Microsoft's deeper AI integration into Visual Studio.

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