Cursor announced a $2.3 billion Series D funding round at a $29.3 billion post-money valuation—nearly tripling its worth from $11.1 billion just five months earlier. The MIT-founded AI coding platform has crossed $1 billion in annualized revenue while expanding to over 300 employees.

This rapid ascent reflects enterprise urgency around AI-augmented development infrastructure as organizations struggle to maintain code quality and velocity amid exploding software complexity. Traditional development workflows increasingly buckle under AI-generated code volumes that require specialized tooling for review, debugging, and integration.

$23 million Series A funding led by Andreessen Horowitz signals a fundamental infrastructure shift in AI coding agents. Relace is building specialized models that reduce codebase context retrieval from minutes to 1-2 seconds and merge file edits at over 10,000 tokens per second.

The bottleneck has evolved. Large language models proved they can generate code at scale, but deploying that code in production environments remains a complex infrastructure challenge. As coding agents move from experimental tools to enterprise workflows powering “software on demand,” the need for purpose-built infrastructure becomes critical.