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Windsurf — Startup ProfileThe agentic AI IDE that keeps developers in flowHQ: Mountain View, CA, United States | Founded: 2021 | Employees: ~250 (peak 2025) | Stage: Acquired — Cognition (Jul 2025) after Google licensing deal | Website: https://windsurf.comAboutWindsurf was founded in June 2021 in Mountain View, California, by MIT classmates Varun Mohan (CEO) and Douglas Chen. The company began as Exafunction, a GPU virtualization platform optimizing utilization at scale, before pivoting in 2022 to Codeium as generative AI created a larger opportunity in developer tools. Its first product was a free, fast autocomplete extension for 70+ languages and all major IDEs, which grew to over 800,000 developers and 1,000 enterprise customers by 2024. In April 2024 the company rebranded from Codeium to Windsurf, signaling a shift from plugin to full AI-native IDE — the Windsurf Editor — built around its agentic AI system Cascade that can reason across entire codebases, edit multiple files, run terminals, and keep developers in flow.The rebrand and agentiKey Metrics

Total Funding Raised: $243M

Last Valuation: $1.25B (Series C, Aug 2024) → $2.85B talks (Feb 2025)

Google Licensing Deal: $2.4B (Jul 2025)

ARR: $82M (Jul 2025) · peaked ~$100M (Apr 2025)

Enterprise Customers: 350+ (hundreds of thousands DAU)

Employees: ~250 (40 to Google DeepMind)

Funding Rounds

Round: $150M (2024-08-01) — General Catalyst

Round: $65M (2024-01-15) — Kleiner Perkins

Round: $25M (2022-04-15) — Greenoaks Capital Partners, Founders Fund

Round: $3M (2021-06-01) — Greenoaks Capital Partners

Key People

Varun Mohan

Douglas Chen

Jeff Wang

Key Competitors

Cursor (Anysphere) —

GitHub Copilot (Microsoft) —

Cognition (Devin) — now parent —

Poolside AI —

Timeline Highlights

2025-07-11: Google $2.4B acqui-hire + Cognition acquisition

2024-08-01: Series C $150M at $1.25B valuation

2024-04-15: Rebrand to Windsurf

2024-01-15: Series B $65M at $500M valuation

2022-04-15: Pivot to Codeium