Big Name Now in AI Tech 🌍

Maker of popular AI code Tool Editor
  • Sualeh Asif cofounded Cursor, the maker of a popular AI code editing tool, with three friends from MIT.
  • 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.
  • Originally from Karachi, Pakistan, Asif represented the country in the International Math Olympiad from 2016 to 2018.
  • In college, he started an AI-powered search engine company.