Anysphere, a Massachusetts-based startup that has developed an "AI-native" software development environment called Cursor, has raised $8 million in seed funding.
SaaS Investors
The round was led by OpenAI's Startup Fund and included participation from angel investors including former GitHub CEO Nat Friedman and Dropbox co-founder Arash Ferdowsi.
OpenAI Startup Fund invests in startups, especially in artificial intelligence companies. OpenAI seeks to partner with a small number of early-stage startups in fields where artificial intelligence can have a transformative effect—like health care, climate change, and education—and where AI tools can empower people by helping them be more productive.
Anysphere Use of Funds
The funding will be allocated to the recruitment and support of Anysphere's AI and machine learning research.
About Anysphere
Founded by Michael Truell, Sualeh Asif, Arvid Lunnemark and Aman Sanger Anysphere is a company that builds Artificial Intelligence tools and assistants to help humans. The company developed an artificial intelligence-powered integrated development environment (IDE), Cursor, which is built on Microsoft's Visual Studio Code and is designed to help developers write code more efficiently and answer questions related to coding. It uses AI to provide responses to queries and generate code from prompts. Anysphere aims to make programming faster and more creative for developers.
Funding Details
Company: Anysphere
Raised: $8.0M
Round: Seed Round
Funding Month: October 2023
Lead Investors: OpenAI's Startup Fund
Additional Investors: Nat Friedman and Arash Ferdowsi
Company Website: https://anysphere.co/
Software Category: AI-powered Integrated Development Environment
Source: https://techcrunch.com/2023/10/11/anysphere-raises-8m-from-openai-to-build-an-ai-powered-ide/