Indian-origin Cursor cofounder's net worth hits $5.5 billion after SpaceX deal

New Delhi, June 17 (IANS) SpaceX has signed a merger deal for $60 billion in stock to acquire Anysphere Inc. -- the parent of AI coding platform Cursor -- a move that has made its cofounder Aman Sanger (25) worth an estimated $5.5 billion.

Sanger -- who left Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 2022 with three classmates to build what became Cursor -- serves as chief operating officer at Anysphere.

On LinkedIn, Sanger describes his mission as "removing all bottlenecks in creating software".

The startup pivoted from an initial focus on building an AI copilot for the mechanical engineering industry to an AI‑assisted coding platform that can analyse entire codebases and generate complex solutions, multiple reports said.

Sanger, born in New York, began coding at 14 and met cofounders Michael Truell, Sualeh Asif and Arvid Lunnemark at MIT, where he studied computer science.