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Mesmer

Cursor for CTOs

mesmer.co
HQ: San Francisco, CA, USA
1-10
B2B

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Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals

Updated Jul 29, 2026

Overview

Mesmer is a YC-backed AI chief of staff for engineering/product development teams. It connects to code, tickets, specs, designs, meetings, and team conversations to surface bottlenecks, report what shipped, and recommend fixes so founders and CTOs can run faster, flatter engineering orgs.

Primary product

AI chief of staff / operating system for engineering teams

Founded

2025

Headquarters

San Francisco, United States

Team size

1-10

Industry

Technology, Information and Internet

Sub-industry

AI-powered engineering productivity / developer productivity

Offices

San Francisco, United States
Dover, Delaware, United States

Business model

B2B SaaS
Sales-led demo-based software
Enterprise software

Funding

Stage

Seed

Latest round

Seed · Jul 2025

Seed

Jul 2025

Pre-seed (reported)

Jun 2025

$500K

People & investors

Leadership

João de Paula

Co-Founder & CEO

Lucas Silva

Co-Founder & CTO

Sergio Bergmann

Co-Founder & VP of Engineering

Amanda Gurgel Zorzi

Chief of Staff

Carlos Eugenio Sánchez Rabiella

Founding GTM

Investors

Joaquim Venancio
KAYA VC
Pioneer Fund
Rebel Fund
Taro Fukuyama
Y Combinator

Work & culture

Public-facing messaging emphasizes fast, flat, focused engineering orgs, fewer meetings, actionable feedback from real work data, security-conscious deployment, and practical fixes shipped into the workflow.

Product & market

Pricing

Custom / sales-led demo pricing

Differentiators

  • —AI chief of staff for CTOs and product-development leaders
  • —Analyzes real work signals, not just metadata
  • —Combines reporting with recommendations and workflow fixes
  • —Read-only integrations plus private-network deployment option
  • —No data retention after processing
  • —Client data not used to train Mesmer or underlying LLMs
  • —SOC 2 Type II, encryption, SSO, SCIM, and RBAC claims

Technology

GitHub
GitLab
Bitbucket
Jira
Linear
Slack
Figma
Notion
Datadog
SSO
SCIM
RBAC

Customers

Founders and CTOs of engineering/product development orgs
Engineering teams with 20+ engineers
Rohlik Group

Competitors

LinearB
Jellyfish
Swarmia
Waydev
Haystack
Sleuth
Pluralsight Flow
Code Climate Velocity

Scale & contact

Estimated revenue

~$330K estimated annual revenue / ARR (public estimate)

Estimated monthly visits

10.1K

Traffic estimate as of May 2026

hello@mesmer.co

Latest news

Mesmer Launches: Cursor for CTOs

Fondo · Feb 2026

Launch recap describing the product, founder background, and early traction claims.

Mesmer to raise a pre-seed funding round with Pioneer Fund, Rebel Fund, KAYA VC and angel investors

Nordic9 · Jun 2025

Funding tracker entry reporting a pre-seed raise of about $500K and naming Pioneer Fund, Rebel Fund, KAYA VC, and angels.

Excited to invest in Mesmer (YC X25)

LinkedIn · May 2025

Angel investor Taro Fukuyama publicly announced his investment and described the product's positioning and customer value.

We’re thrilled to officially announce Mesmer—and our place in YC’s X25 batch!

LinkedIn · May 2025

Official company launch post summarizing the product, YC batch, and early traction.

Mesmer — Cursor for CTOs

Y Combinator · May 2025

Official YC launch describing Mesmer as a cursor for CTOs / AI chief of staff for engineering teams, including claims about live customers, code reviewed, and product scope.

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