Varun Mohan

Varun Mohan is co-founder and former CEO of Windsurf (originally Codeium), an AI-powered IDE used by over a million developers within four months of launch. He earned bachelor's and master's degrees in electrical engineering and computer science from MIT and previously worked at Nuro, Quora, LinkedIn, Databricks, and Samsung. He founded Codeium in 2021 with MIT classmate Douglas Chen, pivoting from GPU virtualization to developer tools. In 2025 he declined a $3 billion OpenAI acquisition offer in favor of a $2.4 billion non-exclusive licensing deal with Google DeepMind, where he now contributes to Gemini.