Company record
Cursor
Updated November 2, 2026 · Presspool
Cursor is an AI coding agent and editor whose agents build, test and demo features on their own, and it runs in the terminal, Slack and GitHub pull-request reviews. cursor.com
Ownership: SpaceX agreed to acquire Anysphere, the company behind Cursor, in an all-stock deal valuing it at $60 billion (announced June 16, 2026). Sources: TechCrunch, Reuters
Funding
- $2.3B Series D, announced November 13, 2025. Sources: cursor.com, cnbc.com.
Whether AI names Cursor
- On the AI coding map: named or cited in 39 of 53 answers to Presspool's AI coding questions on November 2, 2026 (ChatGPT 6 of 8, Claude 7 of 8, Perplexity 5 of 8, Gemini 7 of 8, Copilot 5 of 8, Google AI Mode 6 of 8, Google AI Overviews 3 of 5). See the map. Of the 32 companies on the map, Cursor ranked 1st by answers naming or citing it in that sample. The other companies AI names most on AI coding questions: Cognition (27 of 53), Replit (19 of 53), Lovable (14 of 53), Cline (13 of 53) and Qodo (12 of 53). Most often named in the same answers: Cognition (24), Replit (13), Cline (12), Poolside (7), Qodo (7).
Week by week
Answers that named or cited Cursor in each weekly sample of Presspool's AI coding questions, by the Monday of the sample week. A row is added every week.
| Week of | AI coding |
|---|---|
| September 28, 2026 | 47 of 56 |
| October 5, 2026 | 33 of 48 |
| October 12, 2026 | 41 of 52 |
| October 19, 2026 | 43 of 53 |
| October 26, 2026 | 43 of 55 |
| November 2, 2026 | 39 of 53 |
Sources AI cites when it names Cursor
Presspool asked its 8 AI coding questions on November 2, 2026; 39 of the 53 answers named or cited Cursor, on ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, Copilot, Google AI Mode and Google AI Overviews. The sites those 39 answers cited most:
- zapier.com: 8 of 39 answers
- github.com: 6 of 39 answers
- openai.com: 6 of 39 answers
- cursor.com: 5 of 39 answers
- youtube.com: 5 of 39 answers
- augmentcode.com: 4 of 39 answers
- kilo.ai: 4 of 39 answers
- landbase.com: 4 of 39 answers
- shakudo.io: 4 of 39 answers
- superblocks.com: 4 of 39 answers
Related records
Also on the AI coding map: Anything, Augment Code, Bilt, Bolt.new, Builder.io, Cline, CodeRabbit, Cognition, Emergent, Factory, Greptile, Imbue and 19 more on the map.