Continue

Continue shipped the arrangement every developer says they want: an open-source assistant that plugged into the editor, ran against whichever model you preferred, and kept its configuration in a file you controlled rather than in a vendor's account. It collected the proof that is supposed to matter, a Y Combinator batch, more than thirty-four thousand GitHub stars, and 5.1 million dollars across a post-YC seed and a round of SAFEs led by Heavybit, and never found the part of that arrangement anyone would pay for. Cursor took the team in June 2026 in a deal announced without a press release, by way of an updated homepage and a rewritten FAQ. The engineers pushed a final 2.0.0 release that stripped out the telemetry and tidied the code as a deliberate handoff, then set the repository to read-only; recurring billing was switched off, and on July 15, 2026 the hosted service deleted the conversation histories, saved configurations, and team settings it had been holding. The Apache-licensed code survives and can be forked by anyone, which was the promise from the beginning and, in the end, the reason there was nothing left to sell.

Founded

2023-06

Shut down

2026-07-15

Funding raised

$5M

Years alive

3

Founders

Ty Dunn, Nate Sesti