Michael Truell
American software engineer, co-founder and CEO of Cursor
Michael Truell is an American software engineer and entrepreneur, the co-founder and chief executive officer of Cursor, the AI coding agent and code editor made by Anysphere, Inc.. He founded the company in 2022 with Aman Sanger, Sualeh Asif and Arvid Lunnemark, whom he met while studying at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Fortune gave his age as 25 in April 2026.
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Early life and education
Truell was born in New York City. In 2016 he co-created the Halite AI programming competition, which drew more than 10,000 contestants over three seasons. He earned a Bachelor of Science in computer science and mathematics at MIT, where he did research in statistics and worked on computational chemistry at a biotech start-up.
Cursor
Anysphere launched Cursor in 2023, raised a $60 million Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz in 2024, and in November 2025 raised $2.3 billion at a valuation of about $29.3 billion. In 2026 SpaceX agreed to buy the company for $60 billion in stock, and Cursor became part of SpaceXSI, SpaceX's artificial intelligence division. His personal website says he is "building SpaceXAI".
Online
He links his X account (
@mntruell), GitHub (
truell20) and LinkedIn profile from his personal website, mntruell.com.
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