Aman Sanger is an American entrepreneur and engineer who co-founded Anysphere, the company behind the widely popular AI-powered coding tool Cursor. Born in New York, he comes from a family with deep roots in finance and medicine; his father, Arvind Sanger, is a hedge fund managing partner, and his mother, Shilpa, is an angel investor and orthodontist.

Sanger began coding at the age of 14 and attended MIT, where he met his co-founders Michael Truell, Sualeh Asif, and Arvid Lunnemark. He was recognized early as a Neo Scholar, a selective program that connects elite technical talent with Silicon Valley leaders.

• Origin: Born in New York; family background in finance and entrepreneurship.
• Education: MIT alumnus.
• First Interest: Fascinated by the potential of AI from a young age, starting his coding journey as a teen.

Aman Sanger’s professional rise was meteoric. In 2022, he co-founded Anysphere with his MIT colleagues, aiming to build an AI-first environment tailored to modern engineering workflows. This led to the creation of Cursor, an AI code editor that pioneered the concept of 'vibe coding'—allowing developers to debug and generate code using natural language prompts.

Cursor achieved explosive growth, reaching $100 million in Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR) in just 12 to 14 months. By late 2025, Anysphere was valued at an estimated $29.3 billion, making 25-year-old Sanger a billionaire.

• Role: Co-founder of Anysphere/Cursor.
• Achievement: Scaled Cursor to $100 million ARR within its first year.
• Vision: Views his work as solving the 'bottleneck' of software engineering bandwidth to accelerate AI progress.