Aman Sanger

Aman Sanger is an American entrepreneur and software executive. He is a co-founder of Anysphere, the company behind Cursor, an artificial intelligence-assisted code editor.[1][2] He co-founded the company in 2022 with Michael Truell, Sualeh Asif and Arvid Lunnemark, whom he met while studying at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.[1][3][4] Sanger was born in New York and is the son of Indian immigrants.[4][5] He began coding at age 14.[3][6] He attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he studied computer science and mathematics from 2018 to 2022.[1][4] While at MIT, he met Michael Truell, Sualeh Asif and Arvid Lunnemark, with whom he later co-founded Anysphere.[2][5] Before starting Anysphere, Sanger interned at Google and Bridgewater Associates, and also ran an artificial intelligence consultancy.[1][3] Before co-founding Anysphere, Sanger was involved in research work in computational biology and machine learning. He was a co-author of a 2021 paper published in Nature Methods on Tangram, a deep-learning framework for spatially resolved single-cell transcriptomics.[7] In 2022, Sanger co-founded Anysphere with Michael Truell, Sualeh Asif and Arvid Lunnemark.[1][2] The founders initially worked on other software ideas before developing Cursor, an AI-assisted code editor aimed at software developers.[2] Cursor launched in 2023 and became one of the fastest-growing companies in the market for AI coding tools.[8]