Aman Sanger Net Worth 2026: Cursor COO’s $60 Billion SpaceX Windfall

Aman Sanger’s net worth is about $2.5 billion, according to Forbes’ real-time billionaires tracker on October 28, 2026. Nearly all of that money is held in SpaceX shares, which he received when Elon Musk’s company bought Cursor, the AI coding tool Sanger co-founded in 2022.

Aman Sanger: quick facts

Net worth

$2.5 Billion

Source of wealth

Cursor (Anysphere), SpaceX stock

Profession

Entrepreneur, Cursor co-founder and COO

Nationality

American

Place of birth

New York City, New York, United States

The purchase of Anysphere, Cursor’s parent company, was an all-stock deal worth $60 billion. It closed on August 14, 2026. At closing, Forbes estimated that each of Cursor’s four co-founders walked away with SpaceX stock worth roughly $2.4 billion.

Sanger is 26 years old and serves as Cursor’s chief operating officer. Co-founder Michael Truell is CEO and the company’s public face. Sanger oversees operations and is also listed as an author of the technical report for Composer 2, one of Cursor’s in-house AI models.

Aman Sanger at a glance

• Net worth: about $2.5 billion (Forbes real-time, October 28, 2026)
• Born: in New York City (exact birth date not public)
• Age: 26
• Profession: software entrepreneur; co-founder and chief operating officer of Cursor
• Key companies: Anysphere (Cursor), owned by SpaceX since August 2026; earlier, his own AI consultancy, Abelian AI
• Biggest payday: SpaceX’s $60 billion stock purchase of Cursor
• Education: Horace Mann School (class of 2018); Massachusetts Institute of Technology (computer science and math)
• Lives in: San Francisco, California
• Spouse: none publicly known

His net worth by year is charted at the end of this article.

Where Aman Sanger’s money comes from

Source	Details	Estimate
SpaceX stock	Class A shares (ticker SPCX) he received in exchange for his Cursor stake	About $2.4 billion at closing (Forbes); the vast majority of his wealth
Change in SpaceX’s share price	His fortune now rises and falls with SpaceX’s stock on the Nasdaq	Forbes: $2.5 billion on October 28, 2026
COO salary	Pay for running operations at Cursor, now a SpaceX subsidiary	Not disclosed
Earlier stock sales	Any shares sold during Cursor’s private funding rounds	Not disclosed
Abelian AI	A small AI consultancy he ran while at MIT	Not disclosed; minor compared with Cursor

Before the sale, Forbes estimated that each co-founder owned about 4.5% of Cursor. That share was the basis for every estimate of Sanger’s fortune.

Cursor’s value and Sanger’s stake

Sanger’s wealth tracks one thing: what investors were willing to pay for Cursor. The table below shows the company’s main funding events and what Forbes estimated his stake to be worth at key points.

Date	Event	Cursor valuation	Sanger’s stake (Forbes estimate)
October 2023	$8 million seed round led by the OpenAI Startup Fund (announced)	Not disclosed	Not estimated
June 2024	$60 million Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz	$400 million	Not estimated
June 2025	$900 million Series C led by Thrive Capital	$9.9 billion	Not estimated
November 2025	$2.3 billion Series D led by Accel and Coatue	$29.3 billion	About $1.3 billion (4.5% stake)
June 2026	SpaceX says it will exercise its option to buy Cursor	$60 billion	Projected at about $2.7 billion
August 14, 2026	Deal closes; about 391 million SpaceX Class A shares issued to Cursor’s owners	$60 billion	About $2.4 billion in SpaceX stock
October 28, 2026	Forbes real-time update	—	About $2.5 billion

The gap between the $2.7 billion Forbes projected in June and the $2.4 billion it calculated at closing reflects how the stock-based payment was valued on the day the deal completed.

Early life

Aman Sanger was born and raised in New York City. His parents are Indian immigrants. His father, Arvind Sanger, studied engineering at IIT Bombay, earned an MBA at Tulane University and founded the investment firm Geosphere Capital in 2007. His mother, Shilpa Sanger, grew up in Mumbai and trained as an orthodontist before working as an entrepreneur and angel investor. He has one sister.

He started writing code at about 14. He attended Horace Mann School in the Bronx, the same private school as his future business partner Michael Truell, and graduated in 2018.

At Horace Mann he was best known as a squash player. He captained the team for two years, played No. 1 singles, went undefeated in the Ivy Preparatory League and was named a US Squash junior All-American twice. He was also a National Merit Finalist and the school’s 2017–18 male athlete of the year.

MIT and early work (2018–2022)

Sanger enrolled at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2018 and studied computer science and mathematics. Forbes lists a bachelor’s degree from MIT. He kept playing squash at a high level and helped MIT win its first national title from the College Squash Association, the Division C Summers Cup, in his freshman season.

Outside class he built an unusually long résumé for a student. According to his MIT athletics profile and other public bios, he:

• Interned as a software engineer at Google, the hedge fund Bridgewater Associates and the AI startup Gamalon
• Did computational biology research at the Broad Institute and worked in Regina Barzilay’s AI lab at MIT
• Co-authored a 2021 Nature Methods paper on Tangram, a deep-learning tool for mapping single-cell gene data
• Founded a small AI consulting business called Abelian AI

Other profiles also mention short stints at McKinsey and the search startup You.com. Taken together, the jobs mixed two interests that later shaped Cursor: machine learning and the business of finance.

Starting Anysphere (2022)

In 2022, Sanger and three MIT friends, Michael Truell, Sualeh Asif and Arvid Lunnemark, founded Anysphere. Sanger had known Truell since their Horace Mann days.

The group did not start with coding tools. Their first project was AI for computer-aided design (CAD), aimed at mechanical engineers. Sanger later said the available CAD data was too thin: “It’s just not enough to train a useful model.” He also briefly tried a side project called Instill in the summer of 2022.

What changed their minds was GitHub Copilot, the AI coding assistant they had used as students. “It felt magical when it came out,” Sanger has said. The team had held back because the field looked crowded. “We kept hesitating,” he recalled. Eventually they bet that a better product could still win.

Their idea was to build a whole code editor around AI rather than add AI to an existing one. In a 2023 interview with the Latent Space podcast, Sanger said you “need to own the full IDE and completely redesign the flow of producing software.” He also took part in OpenAI’s Converge program, which gave the team early access to GPT-4.

Building Cursor (2023–2024)

Cursor was first shown to the public in January 2023. It offered code suggestions, chat about a codebase and AI edits across whole files. Developers spread the word quickly, and the young team kept shipping new features at a fast pace.

Money followed. A $8 million seed round led by the OpenAI Startup Fund was announced in October 2023. In June 2024, Andreessen Horowitz led a $60 million Series A that valued the company at $400 million. In late 2024 Cursor bought Supermaven, a startup focused on fast code completion.

In October 2024 the four founders appeared together on the Lex Fridman Podcast to talk about the future of programming with AI, one of their first big public interviews.

Hypergrowth and the billionaire round (2025)

Cursor became one of the fastest-growing software companies on record. Annualized revenue passed $100 million in January 2025 and topped $500 million by mid-year. Customers included Nvidia, Adobe, Uber, Shopify and PayPal.

Speaking with Peak XV Partners in February 2025, Sanger put the company’s progress down to constant testing: “A lot of the work for Cursor has been just experimenting with what is possible.”

Funding rounds grew in step. Thrive Capital led a $900 million round at a $9.9 billion valuation in June 2025. In November 2025, Accel and Coatue led a $2.3 billion round at $29.3 billion. Forbes then estimated that each co-founder’s 4.5% stake was worth at least $1.3 billion, making Sanger a billionaire at 25.

Success did not make him relaxed. “We’re still paranoid,” he told the Financial Express that month, calling worry “part of daily life at Cursor.” He said the company had to “reinvent the product every few months, every year,” and predicted that coding would soon feel like “reviewing the work of a number of interns.” At the time he also said Cursor wanted to stay “a sustainable, independent company.”

The year had setbacks too. A support chatbot made up a login policy in April, a pricing change in July led to refunds, and Lunnemark left in October to start his own research company. Cursor still released version 2.0 and its first in-house model, Composer, that autumn.

The SpaceX sale (2026)

Cursor’s growth kept going into 2026. Reports put annualized revenue at about $2 billion in February and around $4 billion by early June.

Sanger also faced public criticism. In March 2026, users found that the Composer 2 model had been built on top of Kimi K2.5, an open-source model from China’s Moonshot AI. Sanger admitted the mistake publicly: “It was a miss to not mention the Kimi base in our blog from the start. We’ll fix that for the next model.”

On April 21, 2026, Cursor and SpaceX announced a deal to train AI models together. It gave SpaceX the right to buy Cursor later in the year for $60 billion, or pay about $10 billion for the joint work if it did not. On June 16, 2026, SpaceX said it would buy the company.

The sale closed on August 14, 2026. SpaceX’s SEC filing showed that about 391 million SpaceX Class A shares went to Cursor’s owners, with extra stock awards for staff. Cursor now operates as a SpaceX subsidiary inside its AI group, and Sanger is reported to remain its COO.

One fallout from the deal: OpenAI said in late August that it would stop supplying its models to Cursor by November 12, 2026, citing concerns about how SpaceX would use its technology.

Big jumps in Aman Sanger’s net worth

• November 2025: the $29.3 billion funding round made him a billionaire; Forbes estimated at least $1.3 billion
• June 2026: SpaceX agreed to buy Cursor; Forbes projected about $2.7 billion per co-founder
• August 2026: the deal closed; Forbes valued his SpaceX stock at about $2.4 billion
• October 28, 2026: Forbes’ real-time tracker put him at about $2.5 billion, ranked No. 1,629 among the world’s billionaires

Some outlets, mainly in India, reported much higher figures, up to $5.5 billion, after the deal was announced. Those numbers do not match Forbes’ stake estimate and are not used here.

Salary and compensation

Cursor never published what it paid its founders, and SpaceX has not disclosed Sanger’s salary as COO. His wealth is almost entirely in stock, so his salary matters far less than SpaceX’s share price.

That also means his fortune can move fast. On October 28, 2026, Forbes recorded a one-day gain of about $62 million, a rise of about 2.4%.

Real estate

Forbes lists Sanger’s home as San Francisco, California, where Cursor is based. No property purchases by him have been publicly reported.

Property	Year	Reported price
No purchases publicly reported	—	—

Personal life

Sanger keeps his private life out of the news, and there is no public information about a partner, spouse or children. In his MIT years he was a social chair of his fraternity and stayed competitive in squash, which remains his best-known interest outside work.

Philanthropy

Sanger has not announced any major charitable gifts or set up a foundation.

How Aman Sanger compares

Person	Net worth	Main source
Alexandr Wang	About $3.2 billion	Scale AI
Michael Truell	About $2.6 billion	Cursor co-founder and CEO
Aman Sanger	About $2.5 billion	Cursor co-founder and COO
Sualeh Asif	About $2.4 billion at closing	Cursor co-founder
Arvid Lunnemark	About $2.4 billion at closing	Cursor co-founder

Figures are Forbes estimates: Wang as of October 2026, Truell as of October 19, 2026, Sanger as of October 28, 2026, and Asif and Lunnemark at the deal’s closing in August 2026. The four Cursor founders received similar stakes, so small differences mostly reflect the date each figure was taken. For the buyer’s side of the deal, see Elon Musk’s net worth, or browse more business people and the richest people in the world.

Frequently asked questions

What is Aman Sanger’s net worth?

About $2.5 billion, according to Forbes’ real-time tracker on October 28, 2026.

How did Aman Sanger become a billionaire?

He co-founded Cursor, an AI code editor, in 2022. A $29.3 billion funding round in November 2025 made his estimated 4.5% stake worth over $1 billion, and SpaceX’s $60 billion purchase in 2026 lifted it further.

What is Aman Sanger’s role at Cursor?

He is a co-founder and the company’s chief operating officer. Michael Truell is CEO.

How old is Aman Sanger?

He is 26, according to Forbes. He grew up in New York City.

Where did Aman Sanger go to school?

He attended Horace Mann School in New York, where he was a top junior squash player, and then studied computer science and math at MIT.

How much did SpaceX pay for Cursor?

$60 billion in SpaceX stock. The deal closed on August 14, 2026.

Sources: Forbes (real-time billionaires tracker and profile), SpaceX SEC Form 8-K (August 2026), Entrepreneur, Financial Express, Business Today, MIT Athletics, US Squash, Latent Space, Peak XV Partners, The American Bazaar, Wikipedia. All net worth figures are estimates.