Institutional dossier
The documented history of Windsurf: chronology, people, research, capital and compute, and governance. Every statement opens its source and its limits.
Records dated 2021 to 2025-07-14 · 0 undated
13 claims · 6 sources · 13 not editorially accepted. The counts describe this selection. They do not measure completeness or independent confirmation.
Scope, evidence and limits
Description: AI coding company that began as Exafunction in 2021, was known as Codeium and renamed itself Windsurf in April 2025; Cognition announced an agreement to acquire it in July 2025.
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2021Record year · 3 claims
Record about this institution · Stated in source · Supported Rests on reporting
Qualification and date notes
The record rests on reporting (TechCrunch, The Verge); no company page naming the founders was retrieved.
Founding year as reported; month not stated.
Record about this institution · Stated in source · Supported Rests on reporting
Qualification and date notes
The record rests on reporting (TechCrunch); no company page naming the founders was retrieved. The company's own rename post confirms the 2021 start as Exafunction without naming founders.
Founding year as reported; month not stated.
Record about this institution · Stated in source · Supported
Qualification and date notes
Company retrospective; the post now appears on Cognition's devin.ai site. It also states a rename to Codeium by 2022, not recorded as a separate claim.
Year as stated by the company; month and incorporation date not stated.
2024Record year · 1 claims
Record about this institution · Stated in source · Supported Rests on reporting
Qualification and date notes
The record rests on reporting (TechCrunch); The Verge also called him Windsurf CEO on 11 July 2025.
Role as reported on the article date; start date not stated.
2025Record year · 7 claims
Record about this institution · Stated in source · Supported Announced
Activity: announced · name announcement
Qualification and date notes
A brand and company-name announcement; no filing was retrieved, and the post does not state a change of legal name.
Announcement date; date of any legal name change not stated.
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Qualification and date notes
Windsurf's post names him only as 'Douglas'; the full name rests on The Verge's reporting. His title at Windsurf is not stated; his Google DeepMind role is recorded separately.
Announcement date; not a last working day.
Record about this institution · Stated in source · Supported AnnouncedRead through a reader relay
Activity: announced
Qualification and date notes
Windsurf’s own post states the agreement and the hires but not the licence. The licence and Google’s lack of control or stake rest on The Verge’s reporting of the Google–Windsurf announcement; the Google spokesperson statement quoted there does not mention the licence. No Google primary statement was retrieved. Terms and payments are not recorded here.
Announcement date; signing and effective dates not stated.
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Qualification and date notes
Windsurf's post names him only as 'Varun'; the full name and the Google DeepMind destination rest on The Verge's reporting, including a joint statement by Mohan and Chen quoted there. His Google DeepMind role is recorded separately.
Announcement date; not a last working day.
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Qualification and date notes
Company announcement; it does not establish how long the role lasted.
Announcement date.
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Qualification and date notes
Company announcement; it does not establish how long the interim role lasted.
Announcement date; the post says effective immediately.
Record about this institution · Stated in source · Supported Announced
Activity: announced
Qualification and date notes
A signed agreement as announced by the acquirer; the record does not establish completion of the acquisition or its terms.
Date of the announced signing; closing date not stated.