Bootstrapped AI image generation lab with no outside investors, delivered via web and Discord.
AI📍 San Francisco, CAFounded 2021
Current Valuation
$10B
as of 2024
DECACORN
IPO Outlookprivate
Is Midjourney going public?
No. Midjourney is private and has not filed to go public. There is no S-1 on file.
What is Midjourney's valuation in 2026?
Midjourney is valued at $10B as of 2024. That is the last confirmed mark, not a live price — private shares do not trade continuously.
Has Midjourney filed an S-1?
No public S-1 is on file for Midjourney.
Answers are derived from the roster record shown on this page — filing status, last round and confirmed marks. Where the record is silent, the answer says so rather than guessing.
Midjourney is a bootstrapped AI image generation lab founded by David Holz (former Leap Motion co-founder), notable for taking zero outside investment while scaling to ~$500M ARR by 2025 (up from ~$300M in 2024). Originally Discord-native, it operates with a famously small team of ~50 and is estimated by CB Insights at ~$10B if it were to raise.
Company Profile
CEO
David Holz
Founded
2021
HQ
San Francisco, CA
Employees
~50
Est. Revenue
$500M (2025)
Growth
Bootstrapped since 2021 and profitable on subscriptions: Midjourney has never taken outside investment, so it has no investors, no cap table and no priced round. Any valuation attached to it — including the $10B on this row — is a third-party estimate derived from revenue, not a financing print.
IPO Status
private
Fundraising Status
private
Vertical Intelligence — AI / ML
No verified Hugging Face organization found for Midjourney — no attributable open-model footprint. Closed-weights labs are common; this is a distribution signal, not a capability judgment.
Checked huggingface.co as of 2026-08-19. Re-checked weekly.
Talent Signal
Hiring trend
● First snapshot
trend accrues with monthly sweeps
Open roles
16
via ashby
Product-build share
75%
engineering, research, product, design
Trajectory
steady
heavy product build — 75% of open roles are product-building functions (engineering/research/product) — 4 of 16 open roles are design.
Actively hiring with no tracked executive churn.
Open roles by month
Open roles by function
■ product-building ■ go-to-market / G&A
Principal Electrical Engineer (Design Lead)Software Engineer (Generalist)Principal Software EngineerElectrical Engineer (Systems / Integration / Experimentation)Senior Cloud / Data Engineer (Data / Reconstruction / HIPAA)Quality Director (Medical Device / USCT)
Counted from Midjourney's live job board as of 2026-08-17; role functions classified from posting titles. Open-role counts are an activity signal, not headcount. Refreshed monthly.
Founders & Key People
David Holz
Products
Midjourney (web + Discord image generation)
Midjourney v7 model
Niji (anime model)
Video generation (research preview)
Competitors
OpenAI (DALL-E) · Stability AI · Black Forest Labs (Flux) · Ideogram · Adobe Firefly
Private-company numbers are not real-time. Reflects publicly disclosed valuations from press releases, news reports, and tender offers as of 2024. Refreshed quarterly.