Artificial intelligence coding startup Cursor is closing in on new funding in which the four-year-old company will raise at least $2 billion in new capital, according to four sources familiar with the matter. Returning investors Thrive and Andreessen Horowitz are expected to lead the funding at a $50 billion valuation, ahead of the new capital injection, the people said.
Battery Ventures, a new investor, may also participate in the financing, according to two sources. Strategic investor Nvidia is also expected to write a check, one of the people said.
Although the round is already oversubscribed, the terms of the deal are not final and are subject to change.
The funding, if completed, would nearly double Cursor’s previous post-money valuation of $29.3 billion, which was assigned to the company during its last fundraising six months ago.
Despite stiff competition from other AI coding offerings, such as Anthropic’s Codex Claude and OpenAI’s revamped Codex, Cursor’s revenue continues to grow rapidly.
The runner expects to end 2026 on an annual revenue run rate of more than $6 billion, two of the people said. This trajectory suggests that the company expects to at least triple its annual revenue within the next 10 months. In February, Cursor reached $2 billion in annual revenue, calculated by projecting its most recent monthly sales over a year, Bloomberg reported.
Like many AI coding startups based on third-party models, Cursor worked at negative gross margins until recently, that is it costs more to run the product than the startup could charge for it. The introduction of a proprietary Composer model last November, along with the ability to use less expensive models such as China’s Kimi, helped the company achieve a slight gross margin, the people said.
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On a more granular level, the company has achieved positive gross margins on its enterprise sales, but continues to lose money on individual developer accounts, according to one of the people.
By relying less on outside providers, Cursor is trying to avoid being supplanted by its own suppliers, notably Anthropic, whose Claude Code has emerged as the startup’s main rival.
Cursor and Battery Ventures declined to comment. Thrive, a16z and Nvidia did not respond to a request for comment.
Cursor, formerly known as Anysphere, was co-founded in 2022 by Michael Truell, Sualeh Asif, Arvid Lunnemark and Aman Sanger while they were students at MIT.
