Cursor Cofounder Aman Sanger’s Net Worth Reaches $5.5 Billion After SpaceX Deal
New Delhi — SpaceX has signed a $60 billion stock merger deal to acquire Anysphere Inc., the parent company of AI coding platform Cursor, making Indian-origin cofounder Aman Sanger worth an estimated $5.5 billion, according to multiple reports.
Sanger, 25, left the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2022 with three classmates to build what later became Cursor. He serves as chief operating officer at Anysphere and describes his mission on LinkedIn as “removing all bottlenecks in creating software”.
The startup initially focused on building an AI copilot for the mechanical engineering industry before shifting to an AI-assisted coding platform capable of analyzing entire codebases and generating complex software solutions.
Sanger was born in New York and began coding at 14. He met cofounders Michael Truell, Sualeh Asif and Arvid Lunnemark at MIT, where he studied computer science.
At Anysphere, Truell serves as CEO, Asif leads product and Sanger has overseen product strategy, distribution and community building.
Cursor crossed $1 billion in annualized revenue in November 2025 and reached about $4 billion in annualized revenue by early June 2026, according to reports.
The platform is used by millions of software developers at roughly 50,000 enterprises, including Nvidia, Adobe, Uber, Shopify and PayPal, to generate and edit code.
Reacting to SpaceX’s acquisition announcement on X, Sanger wrote: “Excited to train some very strong models!”
SpaceX expects to close the merger by the third quarter of 2026.
The acquisition announcement came four days after SpaceX’s record-breaking Nasdaq initial public offering. On its first day of trading, SpaceX became the sixth-highest valued public company in the world.
SpaceX shares ended their debut day at $160.95, giving the company a market capitalization of about $2.2 trillion and making founder Elon Musk the world’s first trillionaire. (Source: IANS)
