26 year old from Karachi makes it to Forbes Billionaires List


Sualeh Asif cofounded Cursor, the maker of a popular AI code editing tool, with three friends from MIT
Cursor reached a $29.3 billion valuation in November 2025, after raising $2.3 billion in a funding round co-led by VC heavyweights Accel and Coatue.
Cursor claims to have more than $1 billion in annualized revenue, making it one of the fastest growing AI startups.
Today, millions of software developers at 50,000 enterprises like Nvidia, Adobe, Uber and Shopify use Cursor to generate and edit chunks of code.
Originally from Karachi, Pakistan, he represented the country in the International Math Olympiad from 2016 to 2018.
While at MIT, he started an AI-powered search engine company.
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