Justin Lee

Justin Lee is the co-founder and CEO of Cursor, an AI-native code editor company based in San Francisco, California. Prior to establishing this developer productivity platform, he worked as a software engineer at Stripe and studied computer science at Stanford University. Under his executive leadership, Cursor has scaled its operations significantly, reaching a milestone of two million monthly active users by February 2026. The enterprise has accumulated over $100 million in total financing, which includes a $60 million Series A funding round that valued the business at more than $400 million. This rapid financial growth was supported by strategic investments from top-tier venture capital firms and industry leaders, notably Andreessen Horowitz and OpenAI. Following the recent launch of advanced agentic capabilities, Lee maintains his primary focus on engineering AI-driven workspace tools designed to accelerate software development for knowledge workers.