Continue announced it had been acquired by Cursor; the homepage said the mission would continue under Cursor.
SourcePublic company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Continue Dev, Inc. was an open-source AI coding assistant and coding-agent platform for VS Code, JetBrains, and CLI workflows that let developers customize models, prompts, context, and automated review checks; in June 2026 it was acquired by Cursor and the standalone product was discontinued, while the open-source codebase remained available.
Primary product
Open-source AI code assistant / coding agent for VS Code, JetBrains, and CLI
Founded
2023
Headquarters
San Francisco, California, United States
Team size
1-10
Industry
Software Development
Sub-industry
AI coding assistant / developer tools
Offices
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Business model
Stage
Seed
Total raised
$7.3M
Latest round
Seed · Dec 2024
Latest amount
$5.1M
Founders
Co-founder & CEO
Investors
Developer-first, open-source, highly customizable, privacy-conscious, and experimentation-driven; the company emphasized amplifying developers rather than automating them.
Compensation
Public engineering postings showed San Francisco full-time roles at $100k-$150k plus 0.1%-0.5% equity for new grads and $150k-$200k plus 0.5%-1% equity for experienced hires; no public benefits package was found.
Pricing
Free open-source core plus usage-based Starter, per-seat Team, and custom enterprise pricing.
Differentiators
Technology
Customers
Competitors
The New Stack · Jun 2026
Reports that Cursor acquired Continue, that Continue became a read-only/open-source handoff, and that the standalone product was shut down after the acquisition.
TechCrunch · Feb 2025
Covered the 1.0 launch, founders Ty Dunn and Nate Sesti, and the company's $3 million seed funding and team size at the time.
Reuters · Feb 2025
Press release noting the 1.0 launch, the Hub for sharing model/context/prompt building blocks, and enterprise customer references such as Siemens, Morningstar, and IONOS.