All the fundraising deals in the AI code assistant market (from Q2 2025 to Q2 2026)
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The AI code assistant market recorded nine funding rounds between Q2 2025 and Q2 2026.
These AI coding companies raised a combined $3.46 billion during the five-quarter period.
Cursor alone raised $3.2 billion, so one company shaped most of the funding trend.
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Insights
- Cursor captured 92.6% of all AI code assistant funding, which means the market total says more about Cursor than about the average startup.
- The AI-native editor category received $3.2 billion, or 92.6% of total funding, through only two rounds from the same company.
- Every quarter with at least two deals was dominated by one round that represented more than 91% of the quarter's funding.
- AI code assistant startups raised $142 million in Q2 2026, up 116.8% from Q1 2026 but down 84.4% from Q2 2025.
- Four startups focused on coding-agent infrastructure raised $207.5 million during the first half of 2026.
- Cline and Kilo Code raised $40 million combined, showing investor interest in open-source coding agents without mega-round valuations.
- Four of the nine AI code assistant funding rounds exceeded $50 million, while no disclosed round was below $2 million.
- The median funding round was only $32 million, far below the $383.9 million average that was inflated by Cursor.
- The latest AI code assistant funding rounds increasingly support testing, context, agent coordination and production environments.
- Only five investors joined more than one round, and four of those repeat investors backed Cursor twice.
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Summary table of the funding deals in the AI code assistant market (last 5 quarters)
We define the AI code assistant market as products that help developers write, edit, and understand code through AI directly in their coding environment.
We include IDE and editor-integrated assistants that provide inline completion, chat-based help, code transformations and refactoring that produce code changes.
We exclude general-purpose AI chat, IDEs themselves, and tools focused mainly on code review, automation, security scanning or autonomous software delivery.
You can also read our detailed analysis to understand how funding activity in the AI code assistant market has evolved over the last few years.
Also, you should know that we have a dedicated page, updated weekly, with all the latest fundraising deals in the AI code assistant market.
| Name | What they do | Amount in $ | Quarter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tabnine | Provides private code completion, coding chat and development agents inside popular IDEs. | $8M | Q2 2025 |
| Cursor | Offers an AI-native editor that completes, explains, edits and refactors entire codebases. | $900M | Q2 2025 |
| Cline | Runs an open-source coding agent that edits files and completes multi-step development tasks. | $32M | Q3 2025 |
| Cursor | Combines an AI editor, codebase understanding and automated multi-file code changes. | $2.3B | Q4 2025 |
| Kilo Code | Provides an open-source coding agent across IDE, command-line and cloud workflows. | $8M | Q4 2025 |
| Entire | Connects agent prompts, decisions and coding context to Git commits. | $60M | Q1 2026 |
| Crafting | Gives developers and coding agents shared environments for writing and testing production software. | $5.5M | Q1 2026 |
| Niteshift | Provides cloud environments where coding agents write, test and verify software changes. | $7M | Q2 2026 |
| 8090 | Coordinates engineers and AI agents to build and modernize complex enterprise software. | $135M | Q2 2026 |
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How has funding activity in the AI code assistant market changed over time?
Q4 2025 was the largest quarter, with $2.31 billion raised, but Cursor's $2.3 billion Series D created almost the entire total.
Q3 2025 was the smallest quarter, with one $32 million funding round for Cline.
AI code assistant funding increased by 116.8% from Q1 2026 to Q2 2026, but Q2 2026 funding remained 84.4% below Q2 2025.
Without each quarter's largest round, funding was only $8 million in Q2 2025, $8 million in Q4 2025, $5.5 million in Q1 2026 and $7 million in Q2 2026. This shows that underlying funding remained small and relatively stable.
| Quarter | Number of deals | Total raised ($) | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|
| Q2 2025 | 2 | $908M | Cursor supplied 99.1% of the quarter's AI code assistant funding. |
| Q3 2025 | 1 | $32M | Cline completed the quarter's only qualifying AI coding funding round. |
| Q4 2025 | 2 | $2.31B | Cursor's Series D represented nearly all funding recorded during the quarter. |
| Q1 2026 | 2 | $65.5M | Entire's unusually large seed round drove most of the quarterly total. |
| Q2 2026 | 2 | $142M | 8090's Series A represented 95.1% of funding during the quarter. |
| All quarters | 9 | $3.46B | Cursor generated 92.6% of the full AI code assistant funding total. |
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Which startups in the AI code assistant market raised the largest rounds over the last months?
These startups raised the most recently in the AI code assistant market:
- Cursor raised $2.3 billion to fund product development, model training, hiring and growing enterprise demand.
- Cursor raised $900 million after rapid customer growth created demand for a larger product, research and engineering operation.
- 8090 raised $135 million to expand its Software Factory and support complex projects at large regulated companies.
- Entire raised $60 million to build a platform that preserves the context and decisions behind agent-generated code.
- Cline raised $32 million to turn its open-source coding agent into an enterprise-ready product.
- Tabnine raised $8 million to continue developing its private and secure enterprise AI coding platform.
- Kilo Code raised $8 million to expand its open-source and model-flexible coding-agent platform.
- Niteshift raised $7 million to give coding agents secure cloud environments for running and testing software.
- Crafting raised $5.5 million to help developers and coding agents test software in production-like environments.
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Is the AI code assistant market shifting toward smaller or bigger deals?
The average AI code assistant funding round was $383.9 million across the five-quarter period, but Cursor's two rounds made this figure unusually high.
Average deal size ranged from $32 million in Q3 2025 to $1.15 billion in Q4 2025. The average changed mainly because a single large round dominated most quarters.
Without the two Cursor rounds, the average AI code assistant deal falls to $36.5 million, which gives a clearer view of typical funding activity.
| Quarter | Number of deals | Average deal size | Deals below $2M | Deals above $50M |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Q2 2025 | 2 | $454M | 0 | 1 |
| Q3 2025 | 1 | $32M | 0 | 0 |
| Q4 2025 | 2 | $1.15B | 0 | 1 |
| Q1 2026 | 2 | $32.75M | 0 | 1 |
| Q2 2026 | 2 | $71M | 0 | 1 |
| All quarters | 9 | $383.94M | 0 | 4 |
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How concentrated was funding activity in the AI code assistant market?
AI code assistant funding was highly concentrated because the largest deal represented at least 91.6% of funding in every quarter with multiple rounds. Across the full period, Cursor's $2.3 billion Series D alone represented 66.6% of all capital raised.
This concentration means that quarterly totals can rise sharply even when funding for most AI coding startups remains almost unchanged.
| Quarter | Number of deals | Top 1 | Top 3 | Top 10 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Q2 2025 | 2 | 99.1% | 100.0% | 100.0% |
| Q3 2025 | 1 | 100.0% | 100.0% | 100.0% |
| Q4 2025 | 2 | 99.7% | 100.0% | 100.0% |
| Q1 2026 | 2 | 91.6% | 100.0% | 100.0% |
| Q2 2026 | 2 | 95.1% | 100.0% | 100.0% |
| All quarters | 9 | 66.6% | 96.5% | 100.0% |
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Which categories in the AI code assistant market received the most funding?
The AI-native editor and IDE assistant category received $3.2 billion, or 92.6% of all funding. Cursor attracted this capital because Cursor controls the main workspace where developers interact with AI.
The enterprise AI software factory category received $135 million, or 3.9% of total funding. 8090 targets large companies that need AI agents to work across complex software systems.
The human-agent code-understanding category received $60 million, or 1.7% of total funding. Entire addresses the growing need to understand how coding agents produced each software change.
| Category name | Number of deals | Total raised ($) | Startups and amount |
|---|---|---|---|
| AI-native editor and IDE assistant | 2 | $3.2B | Cursor: $900M and $2.3B |
| Enterprise AI software factory | 1 | $135M | 8090: $135M |
| Human-agent code-understanding platform | 1 | $60M | Entire: $60M |
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Who are the biggest investors in the AI code assistant market?
Accel participated in two Cursor rounds with a combined value of $3.2 billion, including its role as co-lead of the Series D.
Andreessen Horowitz participated in both Cursor rounds, giving the firm exposure to $3.2 billion of disclosed AI code assistant funding.
DST Global also participated in Cursor's two rounds, covering $3.2 billion in combined financing.
Thrive Capital led Cursor's $900 million Series C and returned for the $2.3 billion Series D.
WndrCo backed Crafting and 8090, making WndrCo the only repeat investor in this dataset that supported two different startups.
Disclaimer: this investor list may be incomplete; we focus on publicly disclosed lead and prominent recurring investors, so some frequent minority participants may be underrepresented. “Total funded” does not represent the amount personally invested by an individual investor. Instead, it refers to the aggregate amount raised across all fundraising rounds in which the investor participated.
| Investor | Number of deals | Total funded ($) | Startups |
|---|---|---|---|
| Accel | 2 | $3.2B | Cursor |
| Andreessen Horowitz | 2 | $3.2B | Cursor |
| DST Global | 2 | $3.2B | Cursor |
| Thrive Capital | 2 | $3.2B | Cursor |
| WndrCo | 2 | $140.5M | Crafting, 8090 |
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