Continue was an AI IDEs and Editors company founded in 2023 and based in San Francisco, United States. It was acquired by Cursor (Anysphere).
| Date | Stage | Amount | Valuation | Lead investors |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 26, 2025 | Seed | $3M | — | Heavybit, Y Combinator |
| Sep 1, 2023 | Seed | $2.1M | — | Y Combinator |
An open-source AI code assistant that integrates directly into VS Code and JetBrains IDEs. It provides chat, autocomplete, edit, and codebase search capabilities powered by any AI model the developer chooses — from local models like Ollama to cloud providers like OpenAI, Anthropic, or Google. Unlike closed-source alternatives, Continue runs fully open-source, giving developers complete control over their code and data while eliminating the need to copy-paste between ChatGPT and their editor.
A registry and marketplace for developers to create, share, and discover custom AI coding assistants. Similar in concept to Docker Hub or Hugging Face, Continue Hub lets teams define reusable configurations, custom rules, documentation contexts, and model settings that can be shared across an organization or with the broader community. It standardizes how AI assistants are composed and distributed, making it frictionless to deploy consistent AI coding experiences across engineering teams.
Source-controlled AI quality checks that enforce coding standards and best practices directly on GitHub pull requests. Each check is defined as a markdown file in the repo at .continue/checks, and runs as a native GitHub status check with suggested fixes when code doesn't meet the bar. This lets teams codify their architecture guidelines, style rules, and review standards as AI-enforced checks that run automatically in CI, without requiring custom tooling or manual review overhead.