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82nd percentile
Co-founder and CEO of Cursor, the breakout AI code editor
Credibility
GTM / Distribution · 89th percentile
- cursor.com ranks #3,412 on the Majestic Million (global domain prominence).
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Founder score
- 97%Probability of being accurate (97%)Current co-founder and CEO of Cursor (Anysphere, Inc.), actively building the company since January 2022.
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)cursor.com ranks #3,412 on the Majestic Million (global domain prominence).
- 92%Probability of being accurate (92%)Michael Truell has a Wikidata entity (Q136774101) confirming public notability as founder of Cursor.
- 88%Probability of being accurate (88%)Cursor was founded by multiple co-founders, confirming a co-founded company.
- 85%Probability of being accurate (85%)Anysphere (Cursor) raised $8,000,000 in a Seed round in October 2023.
What you likely need
You're running one of the fastest-scaling developer tools companies in history, but your public fundraising story is stuck at an $8M seed — Festival events that put you in the same room as Sequoia and a16z growth partners will help you close the narrative gap fast. You also need to build out an executive layer (VP Eng, VP Sales) and an enterprise GTM motion before the org starts bending under its own weight. Peer dinners with other hypergrowth B2B founders will give you the honest, been-there perspective that's hard to find anywhere else.
Would you attend these IRL Festival events?
We will tune and customize your Founder Festival experience to make sure you get invited to the events that would be most valuable to you.
- fundraisingA closed dinner with a16z and Sequoia growth-stage partners who have written checks into developer tools and AI infrastructure companies at $100M+ ARR — specifically to sharpen Cursor's Series B narrative and get warm pipeline moving
- wellbeingA roundtable for CEOs of B2B SaaS companies that scaled from $0 to $300M ARR in under four years (think Rippling, Vercel, Linear alumni) to trade hard-won lessons on org design, exec hiring, and avoiding founder bottlenecks at 400+ headcount
- hiringA curated dinner targeting VP-of-Engineering candidates with direct experience scaling engineering orgs at developer-tools or AI infrastructure companies (Vercel, GitHub, JetBrains, Replit) from 100 to 500+ engineers
- tacticalA tactical roundtable with GTM leaders from GitHub Copilot, Datadog, and Snyk on structuring an enterprise sales motion — SOC 2, procurement cycles, and land-and-expand playbooks — for a PLG-native dev tool crossing into six-figure contracts
- introsA happy hour with Thrive Capital and ICONIQ Growth partners who back high-revenue, capital-efficient AI companies, designed to surface Cursor's true ARR scale and open Series B term sheet conversations
- hiringA recruiting dinner targeting VP-of-Sales candidates who have built and led enterprise sales teams at developer-focused companies (Atlassian, HashiCorp, Postman) and can own a structured enterprise motion from day one
- positioningA dinner with high-distribution technical founders (Lenny Rachitsky, Guillermo Rauch, Amjad Masad) who have built public founder brands that directly drive enterprise pipeline and top engineering recruiting
- wellbeingA YC alumni dinner exclusively for founders running companies above $200M ARR to talk candidly about loneliness at the top, board dynamics, and building peer support structures that actually hold up at scale