Aman Sanger

Who is Aman Sanger

Aman Sanger is one of the four co-founders of Anysphere, the company that makes the AI coding tool Cursor^[1]. SpaceX bought Anysphere in a deal that closed on 14 August 2026^[2]. Forbes put his net worth at $2.5 billion on 12 November 2026^[3].

He grew up in New York and studied computer science at MIT^[4]. Before Cursor he did computational biology research at the Broad Institute and interned at Bridgewater Associates and Google^[4][3]. On his website he writes: "Software engineering bandwidth and genius ideas are the bottlenecks to rapid AI progress. Cursor is our attempt at solving the former."^[5]

Early life and education

Gold House describes Sanger as an Indian-origin entrepreneur born in New York^[6]. He began coding at 14^[6].

He went to the Horace Mann School in New York and graduated in 2018^[4]. At Horace Mann he was squash captain for two years, a two-time All-American and a National Merit Finalist^[4].

At MIT he majored in computer science and was listed as a senior in the 2021-22 season^[4]. Forbes lists a bachelor's degree from MIT^[3]. He played squash for MIT at No. 1 and No. 2, qualified for the CSA individual championships, and in 2021-22 was named a CSA Scholar Athlete and First-Team All-MASC^[4]. Forbes reported in November 2025 that he was a Neo scholar^[7]. Forbes describes Neo as a startup boot camp that finds talented people while they are still in college^[7].

Research and work before Cursor

The MIT Athletics roster lists software engineering internships at Bridgewater Associates, Gamalon and Google^[4]. Forbes says he also founded his own AI consultancy^[3]. The roster names it Abelian AI^[4].

He did computational biology research at the Broad Institute and research in Regina Barzilay's lab at MIT CSAIL^[4]. He is one of 22 authors of "Deep learning and alignment of spatially resolved single-cell transcriptomes with Tangram", published in Nature Methods on 28 October 2021^[8]. His affiliation on the paper is the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard^[8].

In 2023 he posted short technical notes on running large language models on his website, such as "llama-1 needs multi-query attention" and "flash attention isn't helpful when generating tokens"^[9].

Co-founding Anysphere and Cursor

Michael Truell, Sualeh Asif, Arvid Lunnemark and Aman Sanger founded Anysphere in 2022^[7]. Truell met the other three while at MIT, where they "became close friends", TechCrunch reported^[1]. Anysphere's product is Cursor, an AI-powered code editor built as a fork of VS Code^[1].

In October 2023 Anysphere raised an $8 million seed round led by the OpenAI Startup Fund, with Nat Friedman and Arash Ferdowsi also investing^[1]. The round brought its total funding to $11 million^[1]. When Cursor announced its Series A on 22 August 2024, it said it had more than 40,000 customers^[10]. In October 2024 all four founders appeared together on episode 447 of the Lex Fridman Podcast^[11].

A $105 million Series B followed on 16 January 2025^[12]. On 6 June 2025 Anysphere raised $900 million at a $9.9 billion valuation and said its annual recurring revenue had passed $500 million^[13]. On 13 November 2025 it raised $2.3 billion at a $29.3 billion post-money valuation, with Coatue, NVIDIA and Google as new investors^[14]. It said Cursor had crossed $1 billion in annualized revenue^[14].

Lunnemark left Anysphere in October 2025 to start Integrous Research. Forbes reported that its incorporation documents say it is focused on developing systems for "safer AI"^[7]. In November 2025, before the SpaceX deal, Entrepreneur described Truell as chief executive, Asif as chief product officer and Sanger as chief operating officer^[15].

Read the profile of co-founder Sualeh Asif

SpaceX's purchase of Anysphere

On 21 April 2026 SpaceX said it could buy Cursor later that year for $60 billion, or pay $10 billion for the two companies' work together^[16]. SpaceX had merged with xAI in February 2026^[16]. SpaceX's post said "SpaceXAI and @cursor_ai are now working closely together"^[16].

On 16 June 2026 SpaceX and Anysphere signed a merger agreement, according to a SpaceX filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission^[17]. The deal was paid in SpaceX stock and gave Cursor an implied equity value of $60.0 billion^[17].

The merger took effect on 14 August 2026, and Anysphere became a wholly owned subsidiary of SpaceX^[2]. Cursor's stock was converted into 389,289,254 SpaceX Class A shares^[2]. The same day Cursor's blog said: "Cursor has officially been acquired by SpaceX"^[18]. Bloomberg Law reported that Elon Musk's AI venture is now called SpaceXAI^[19].

Aman Sanger's net worth

Forbes's real-time list put Sanger's net worth at $2.5 billion on 12 November 2026, ranking him 1,641st^[3]. Forbes lists the source as AI software, calls him self-made, and gives his age as 26, his citizenship as the United States and his home as San Francisco^[3].

Forbes counted the four co-founders as billionaires after the November 2025 Series D round. It estimated that each held a 4.5% stake in Anysphere worth at least $1.3 billion^[7]. Forbes also calls all four Forbes 30 Under 30 alumni^[7]. It estimates that each co-founder received SpaceX shares worth $2.4 billion when the SpaceX deal closed^[3].

Known for

• Co-founding Anysphere, the maker of Cursor, in 2022
• SpaceX's $60 billion purchase of Anysphere, completed in August 2026
• Computational biology research at the Broad Institute before Cursor

Sources

1. TechCrunch: Anysphere raises $8M from OpenAI to build an AI-powered IDE, 11 October 2023 — checked 12 Nov 2026
2. SpaceX Form 8-K on completing the Anysphere merger, 14 August 2026 — checked 12 Nov 2026
3. Forbes: Aman Sanger real-time net worth — checked 12 Nov 2026
4. MIT Athletics: Aman Sanger, men's squash roster, 2021-22 — checked 12 Nov 2026
5. Aman Sanger's website — checked 12 Nov 2026
6. Gold House: Aman Sanger and Sualeh Asif — checked 12 Nov 2026
7. Forbes Australia (Rashi Shrivastava): Four cofounders of popular AI coding tool Cursor are now billionaires, 28 November 2025 — checked 12 Nov 2026
8. Nature Methods (PMC): Deep learning and alignment of spatially resolved single-cell transcriptomes with Tangram, 28 October 2021 — checked 12 Nov 2026
9. Aman Sanger: thoughts (technical notes, 2023) — checked 12 Nov 2026
10. Cursor blog: Series A and Magic, 22 August 2024 — checked 12 Nov 2026
11. Lex Fridman Podcast #447: Cursor Team, 6 October 2024 — checked 12 Nov 2026
12. Cursor blog: Series B, 16 January 2025 — checked 12 Nov 2026
13. Cursor blog: Series C, 6 June 2025 — checked 12 Nov 2026
14. Cursor blog: Past, Present, and Future (Series D), 13 November 2025 — checked 12 Nov 2026
15. Entrepreneur: AI coding startup Anysphere mints 4 new billionaires, 14 November 2025 — checked 12 Nov 2026
16. CNBC: SpaceX says it can buy Cursor later this year for $60 billion, 21 April 2026 — checked 12 Nov 2026
17. SpaceX Form 8-K on the merger agreement with Anysphere, 16 June 2026 — checked 12 Nov 2026
18. Cursor blog: Cursor is now a part of SpaceX, 14 August 2026 — checked 12 Nov 2026
19. Bloomberg Law: SpaceX completes its $60 billion Cursor acquisition, 14 August 2026 — checked 12 Nov 2026