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  "markdown": "Co-founder and CEO, Anysphere (Cursor).\n\nMichael Truell co-founded Anysphere, the company behind Cursor, in 2022 with three fellow MIT students and leads it as chief executive. He studied computer science and mathematics at MIT and in 2016 co-created the Halite AI Programming Competition, which drew more than 10,000 contestants over three seasons.\n\n## What Michael builds\n\n- [Cursor Agent SDK](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cursor-agent-sdk.md), graded B, 63.6/100, in Agent frameworks \u0026 SDKs. Cursor's TypeScript framework for defining an agent as a folder of instructions, typed tools, skills, MCP connections and channels, testing it with evals, and running it on your own server or on Cursor's hosting. Co-founder and CEO, Anysphere (Cursor), researched 2026-10-27.\n\n## Works with\n\n- [Aman Sanger](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/aman-sanger/), Co-founder, Anysphere (Cursor)\n- [Arvid Lunnemark](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/arvid-lunnemark/), Co-founder, Anysphere (Cursor); left in 2025\n- [Rustam Lalkaka](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/rustam-lalkaka/), Author of the Agent SDK launch post, Cursor\n- [Sualeh Asif](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/sualeh-asif/), Co-founder and CPO, Anysphere (Cursor)\n\n## Backed by\n\n- [Andreessen Horowitz](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/andreessen-horowitz/)\n- [Thrive Capital](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/thrive-capital/)\n- [OpenAI](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/openai/)\n- [Jeff Dean](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/jeff-dean/)\n- [Noam Brown](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/noam-brown/)\n- [Benchmark](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/benchmark/)\n- [Accel](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/accel/)\n- [DST Global](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/dst-global/)\n- [Coatue](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/coatue/)\n- [NVIDIA](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/nvidia/)\n- [Google](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/google/)\n\n## Questions\n\n### Who is Michael Truell?\n\nMichael Truell co-founded Anysphere, the company behind Cursor, in 2022 with three fellow MIT students and leads it as chief executive. He studied computer science and mathematics at MIT and in 2016 co-created the Halite AI Programming Competition, which drew more than 10,000 contestants over three seasons.\n\n### What does Anysphere, Inc. (Cursor), a SpaceX subsidiary make?\n\nAnchor Terminal lists Cursor Agent SDK from Anysphere, Inc. (Cursor), a SpaceX subsidiary. Cursor's TypeScript framework for defining an agent as a folder of instructions, typed tools, skills, MCP connections and channels, testing it with evals, and running it on your own server or on Cursor's hosting.\n\n### Who has invested in Anysphere, Inc. (Cursor), a SpaceX subsidiary?\n\nThe sources our research read name Andreessen Horowitz, Thrive Capital, OpenAI, Jeff Dean, Noam Brown, Benchmark, Accel, DST Global, Coatue, NVIDIA and Google.\n\n### How are Michael's tools graded?\n\nCursor Agent SDK is graded B, 63.6 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.\n\n## Sources\n\n- https://cursor.com/docs/agent-sdk\n- https://cursor.com/blog/agent-sdk\n- https://cursor.com/blog/joining-spacex\n- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cursor_(code_editor)\n- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Truell\n- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aman_Sanger\n- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arvid_Lunnemark\n\nThese are the people building the tools we list, named for their public role in the company or project behind a listing, from public pages, with the date it was researched. They don't work for Anchor Terminal (our own team is on the about page, /about/#author). We show public roles, public profiles and what the listing pages show, nothing private. To correct something, send an about or a photo, or have a page removed, write to privacy@anchorterminal.com.\n",
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