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  "markdown": "Co-founder and CPO, Anysphere (Cursor).\n\nSualeh Asif co-founded Anysphere, the company behind Cursor, in 2022 with Michael Truell, Aman Sanger and Arvid Lunnemark while they were students at MIT. He is listed as Cursor's chief product officer.\n\n## What Sualeh 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 CPO, 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- [Michael Truell](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/michael-truell/), Co-founder and CEO, Anysphere (Cursor)\n- [Rustam Lalkaka](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/rustam-lalkaka/), Author of the Agent SDK launch post, 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 Sualeh Asif?\n\nSualeh Asif co-founded Anysphere, the company behind Cursor, in 2022 with Michael Truell, Aman Sanger and Arvid Lunnemark while they were students at MIT. He is listed as Cursor's chief product officer.\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 Sualeh'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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