Aman Sanger
American entrepreneur
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Aman Sanger is an American entrepreneur and software executive. He is a co-founder of Anysphere, the company behind Cursor, an artificial intelligence-assisted code editor.[1][2] He co-founded the company in 2022 with Michael Truell, Sualeh Asif and Arvid Lunnemark, whom he met while studying at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.[1][3][4]
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| Born | New York, U.S. |
| Education | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (BS) |
| Occupation | Entrepreneur |
| Years active | 2022–present |
| Known for | Co-founding Anysphere, developer of Cursor |
| Title | Chief Operating Officer, Anysphere |
| Website | www |
Early life and education
Sanger was born in New York and is the son of Indian immigrants.[4][5] He began coding at age 14.[3][6] He attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he studied computer science and mathematics from 2018 to 2022.[1][4] While at MIT, he met Michael Truell, Sualeh Asif and Arvid Lunnemark, with whom he later co-founded Anysphere.[2][5]
Before starting Anysphere, Sanger interned at Google and Bridgewater Associates, and also ran an artificial intelligence consultancy.[1][3]
Career
Research work
Before co-founding Anysphere, Sanger was involved in research work in computational biology and machine learning. He was a co-author of a 2021 paper published in Nature Methods on Tangram, a deep-learning framework for spatially resolved single-cell transcriptomics.[7]
Anysphere and Cursor
In 2022, Sanger co-founded Anysphere with Michael Truell, Sualeh Asif and Arvid Lunnemark.[1][2] The founders initially worked on other software ideas before developing Cursor, an AI-assisted code editor aimed at software developers.[2] Cursor launched in 2023 and became one of the fastest-growing companies in the market for AI coding tools.[8]
Sanger serves as chief operating officer of Anysphere.[3][9] Coverage of Cursor has described him as part of the leadership team that helped scale the business as the product gained adoption among software engineers and enterprise customers.[1][3] In November 2025, Anysphere announced a funding round valuing the company at $29.3 billion.[2][8] In 2026, the company drew wider media attention amid reports that SpaceX had agreed to acquire Anysphere in a deal valuing it at $60 billion.[4][9]
Sanger was also listed as a co-author on the Composer 2 Technical Report, a 2026 paper released by Cursor Research on a model for software engineering tasks.[10]
Wealth
Following Anysphere's November 2025 funding round, Forbes estimated that Sanger had become a billionaire based on his ownership stake in the company.[2][1] In 2026, following the reported SpaceX acquisition, several outlets described his net worth as having increased substantially, with NDTV Profit reporting an estimate of $5.5 billion.[5][9]