AI coding firm Cursor to open London headquarters with 200 jobs by year-end
Key Points
- Cursor, an AI coding platform, will open its London headquarters in summer 2026 and grow its EMEA headcount to approximately 200 employees by year-end.
- The expansion follows EMEA revenue tripling quarter over quarter, making it the company's fastest-growing region.
- Regional customers include British Airways, BP, Deliveroo, Nokia and Sanofi, with Nokia deploying Cursor to more than 20,000 engineers.
- Cursor will hire across go-to-market, engineering, customer success and operations, and is investing in compliance capabilities for regulated industries.
- More than 50,000 businesses use Cursor, including 67% of the Fortune 500, writing over 150 million lines of enterprise code daily.
AI coding company Cursor will open its London headquarters this summer and plans to grow its regional headcount to approximately 200 employees by the end of 2026.
The company announced the expansion on Monday (8 June), establishing dedicated teams to serve Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) after its revenue in the region tripled quarter over quarter this year.
Cursor said it will hire across go-to-market, engineering, customer success and operations roles, with EMEA now its fastest-growing region.
The company’s EMEA customer base includes British Airways, BP, Deliveroo, Nokia and Sanofi, alongside other large enterprises across the region.
“We’re incredibly excited to officially launch Cursor across EMEA and deepen our commitment to customers and partners throughout Europe,” said Ismail Elmas, SVP of EMEA for Cursor.
“This launch covers all major European markets and reflects the growing demand we’re seeing from organisations ready to put AI at the centre of how they build.”
Cursor said it is also investing in region-specific capabilities to support the compliance needs of local enterprises, including requirements around data locality, privacy and regulatory compliance in highly regulated industries.
Nokia, one of the company’s largest customers in the region, has rolled out Cursor to more than 20,000 engineers.
“Empowering more than 20,000 engineers on Cursor was not just a productivity decision; it was a strategic decision about the kind of engineering organisation we want to be,” said Pallavi Mahajan, Chief Technology and AI Officer at Nokia.
“Our teams are directing AI agents across some of the world’s most complex codebases, helping Nokia move faster and operate more efficiently.”
Cursor builds an AI coding platform that helps developers and engineering teams write software using AI, supporting frontier models from multiple providers.
The company said more than 50,000 businesses use its platform, including 67% of the Fortune 500, and that developers write over 150 million lines of enterprise code per day with Cursor.
Enterprises across financial services, life sciences, energy, professional services and consumer technology are adopting the platform to boost developer productivity and reduce time-to-ship, the company said.
