Rank #2912
Michael Truell
Net worth $1.3B
AI software · United States
- Born
- Sep 04, 2000
- Age
- 25
- Source
- AI software
- Residence
- San Francisco, California
- Citizenship
- United States
- Marital status
- Children
- 0
- Education
Net worth over time
Biography
- Michael Truell is the cofounder and CEO of Cursor, the maker of a popular AI code editing tool.
- He cofounded the company with three friends from MIT in 2022.
- Cursor reached a $29.3 billion valuation in November 2025, after raising $2.3 billion in a funding round co-led by VC heavyweights Accel and Coatue.
- Cursor claims to have more than $1 billion in annualized revenue, making it one of the fastest growing AI startups.
- Today, millions of software developers at 50,000 enterprises like Nvidia, Adobe, Uber and Shopify use Cursor to generate and edit chunks of code.
- Truell and his billionaire cofounder Aman Sanger were high school classmates at New York City's Horace Mann School.