Michael Truell

Michael Truell is the cofounder and CEO of Cursor, the maker of a popular AI code editing tool.

He cofounded the company with three friends from MIT in 2022.

Cursor reached a $29.3 billion valuation in November 2025, after raising $2.3 billion in a funding round co-led by VC heavyweights Accel and Coatue.

Cursor claims to have more than $1 billion in annualized revenue, making it one of the fastest growing AI startups.

Today, millions of software developers at 50,000 enterprises like Nvidia, Adobe, Uber and Shopify use Cursor to generate and edit chunks of code.

Truell and his billionaire cofounder Aman Sanger were high school classmates at New York City's Horace Mann School.