In less than a year, the startup behind Cursor has sparked tech's buzziest buzzphrase—vibe coding—and seen its valuation go from $400M to $2.5B to possibly $10B.

It's one of the fastest-growing startups ever. @nmasc_ has the inside story for Weekend. https://t.co/E8RFrPempb

Cursor round closed — $625M at $9.6B post led by Thrive &amp; A16z. Accel is a new backer.

$200M ARR, up 4x from $2.5B round in November 2024.

ARR multiple constant from last round at 50x.

Arfur Rock

wow

https://x.com/ArfurRock/status/1906768733135098360

Working on Farcaster and Warpcast. Longer thoughts at https://dwr.email

Do you think it was a good investment at this val?

Stay Curious // iixii // Lazer Technologies // Prev: CoinDesk, Roc Nation // based @basedevo

No idea. 

Anyone who has a pov on valuation of a private company without access to the underlying data is probably full of sh...