Acquisition
Jun 2026Continue announced it had been acquired by Cursor; the homepage said the mission would continue under Cursor.
SourceCompany research
Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Overview
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
San Francisco, California, United States
Business model
open-source software
freemium
usage-based SaaS
per-seat SaaS
enterprise sales
Funding
Stage
Seed
Total raised
$7.3M
Latest round
Seed · Dec 2024
Latest amount
$5.1M
People & investors
Founders
Co-founder & CEO
Work & culture
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.
Product & market
Pricing
Free open-source core plus usage-based Starter, per-seat Team, and custom enterprise pricing.
Differentiators
- —Apache 2.0 open-source codebase
- —Model-agnostic and BYO-model workflow
- —IDE extensions plus CLI plus Hub
- —Custom slash commands, context sources, and tools
- —Shared rules, prompts, models, and context integrations
- —Local/offline model support for privacy-sensitive use
- —Agent mode and automated pull-request review checks
Technology
TypeScript
JavaScript
React
Next.js
Node.js
Python
Kotlin
Rust
VS Code extensions
JetBrains plugins
CLI
GitHub
Linear
Sentry
Slack
Ollama
PostHog
Customers
Siemens
Morningstar
IONOS
Competitors
GitHub Copilot
Cursor
Codeium / Windsurf
Tabnine
Sourcegraph Cody
Scale & contact
Signals & risks
Shutdown
Jun 2026The continuedev/continue repository was made read-only and the product was wound down after a final 2.0.0 release.
SourceLatest news
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.
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