Cursor looks to build a search tool for any internal database with $2M in new funding

Cursor looks to build a search tool for any internal database with $2M in new funding

6 years ago
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https://techcrunch.com/2018/05/30/cursor-looks-to-build-a-search-tool-for-any-internal-database-with-2m-in-new-funding/

As companies get bigger and bigger, odds are who has access and owns what information is going to get more and more fragmented — and the risk of the last person knowing how to do something, like knowing a code base, leaving the company starts to become a real existential threat.

One way to fix that is, obviously, to ensure that people are talking to each other. But since that usually won’t be the case once companies hit the thousands of employees, Adam Weinstein and his co-founders Patrick Farrell and Jason McGhee started a company called Cursor that’s designed to help make that problem a little easier internally. Cursor serves as a sort of internal search tool for information, whether that’s inside SQL queries, database metadata, existing platforms like Tableau and others. The whole goal there is to reduce the communication gap between employees to as close to zero as possible, and ensure that it’s not just a single person that knows how to get something done that’s constantly inundated with requests.