Varun Mohan
Co-founder and former CEO of Windsurf (formerly Codeium); at Google DeepMind from July 2025.
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Google DeepMind (director of software engineering)
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- Varun Mohan is an American engineer and entrepreneur.
- He co-founded Codeium, which pivoted from GPU virtualization infrastructure to an IDE plugin and then to its own AI code editor, Windsurf, and was its CEO.
- In July 2025 Google hired him, with co-founder Douglas Chen and several researchers, and paid $2.4 billion to license Windsurf's technology; the rest of Windsurf went to Cognition.
- At Google DeepMind he is a director of software engineering and co-authored the announcement of Antigravity 2.
Key facts
- Google DeepMind
- Director of software engineering, from July 2025; co-authored the Antigravity 2 announcement1
- Windsurf (formerly Codeium)
- Co-founder and CEO until July 2025; Google paid $2.4 billion to license its technology1
- Pivots
- GPU virtualization infrastructure, then an IDE plugin, then a standalone IDE2
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- Google DeepMindOrganization
director of software engineering; joined from Windsurf · since Jul 2025 source on Google DeepMind
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