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Anysphere raises $60M Series A for AI coding tool Cursor
The startup behind Cursor announces a $60 million Series A from Andreessen Horowitz, Thrive Capital, OpenAI, Jeff Dean, Noam Brown, and the founders of Stripe, GitHub, Ramp, Perplexity, and OpenAI.
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Anysphere, the startup behind Cursor, today announced a $60 million Series A funding round from Andreessen Horowitz, Thrive Capital, 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 “SOTA 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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