Following its successful IPO, Elon Musk’s SpaceX has officially agreed to buy Cursor, an AI coding startup, in a whopping $60bn transaction. Not only Cursor AI but also its parent company, Anysphere Inc, will be integrated to SpaceX as its wholly owned subsidiary by August 2026. The $60-billion SpaceX deal has catapulted the coding platform Cursor and its four co-founders to the media spotlight. One of them is Indian American Aman Sanger, 25, with a net worth of $3 billion.
Who is Aman Sanger behind SpaceX-and-Cursor $60bn deal
Among the brains behind Cursor AI, Aman Sanger is a young tech entrepreneur, an emerging Silicon Valley billionaire, and a bright MIT alumnus. He was born to an immigrant couple in New York, not with a silver spoon in his mouth, but with technology in his blood. At the age of 14, he started coding. He majored in computer science and AI at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT. Like Surya Midha and Adarsh Hiremath who became the world’s youngest billionaires at 22, Aman joined the ranks of young Indian-origin achievers in the US.
Aman Sanger’s Parents and Indian Roots
Though the SpaceX Cursor deal gave a meteoric rise to Aman Sanger’s fortune, his parents who are first-generation immigrants in the US constantly supported his decisions and built his career foundation. His father, Arvind Sanger, moved to the US with an IIT Bombay degree, and pursued MBA at Tulane University. He founded Geosphere Capital in 2007, a New York-based hedge fund focused on natural resources, industrial companies, and Indian equities.
He also served as Chairman of Pratham USA, a nonprofit organization that supports educational opportunities for underprivileged children in India. His mother, Shilpa Sanger, grew up in a Marwari family in Mumbai, trained as an orthodontist, and later moved to the USA. She describes herself as an “orthodontist turned homemaker turned entrepreneur turned angel investor.” She also works as a business manager at Geosphere Capital.
Aman Sanger’s parents met in New York and married after about 18 months of dating. They have two children, Aman and his sister. For Aman, the path to becoming one of Silicon Valley’s youngest billionaires did not begin with Cursor or MIT. It started from a household shaped by two Indian immigrants who pursued opportunities, adapted to new challenges, and built successful careers on their own.
Aman Sanger’s journey from MIT to Billionaires’ Club
Aman Sanger’s journey to Silicon Valley began at MIT, where he studied Computer Science and met his business partners who became Cursor’s co-founders: Michael Truell, Sualeh Asif, and Arvid Lunnemark. In 2022, the four launched Anysphere Inc. with a vision to use AI to transform how software is program. Their breakthrough came with Cursor, an AI-powered coding assistant that helps developers write, edit, and debug code using simple natural-language prompts.
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What set Cursor apart was its rapid adoption. Within just a few years, the platform grew from a student startup into one of the most talked-about AI products in the world. By 2025, Cursor had crossed $100 million in annual recurring revenue and attracted millions of developers. The company also secured backing from some of Silicon Valley’s leading investors, cementing its position as a major player in the AI race.
By the end of 2025, Cursor’s valuation climbed to nearly $30 billion, and Forbes estimated Sanger’s net worth at around $1.3 billion, making him one of the youngest self-made billionaires in tech. Now, he has achieved another milestone in his journey, with Elon Musk’s SpaceX acquiring Anysphere and Cursor in a $60B deal.
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