The problem
Creators and designers need striking visuals fast without hiring artists or learning complex design tools
What they do
AI image and video generation models sold by subscription; expanding into medical imaging and consumer apps
Traction #11 on a16z Top 50 consumer AI apps by revenue (Oct 2026); $300M revenue FY2024 (PitchBook), $200M+ in 2023; profitable
Hiring trend
- Open roles
- 17
- Ops roles
- 2
- Headcount
- ~60-100
Lean self-funded lab (~60 staff per its site) adding a medical-hardware team and Co-Star's ~24 staff (Jul 2026); 17 open roles, mostly Midjourney Medical
Hiring in
- SF Bay Area
- San Francisco
- New York
- Remote (US)
Latest news
Jul 2026
Made first acquisition, astrology app Co-Star, and is building its first standalone app ↗Glassdoor
4.0 ★ 1 reviews ↗Funding
- Last round
- none (self-funded)
- Stage
- Bootstrapped (no outside funding)
- Hiring+1.517 open roles on the live job board (10–29 roles = +1.5)
- Funding recency0Bootstrapped (no outside funding) · none (self-funded): no round date on file, so no recency points
- Traction—#11 on a16z Top 50 consumer AI apps by revenue (Oct 2026); $300M revenue FY2024 (PitchBook), $200M+ in 2023; profitable
- Red flags—Noted below (−1 each when significant)Consolidated copyright suit by Disney, Universal and Warner Bros. Discovery (filed Jun/Sep 2025) over training and outputs; Variety calls it potentially ruinous; still in discovery.CourtListener: Disney Enterprises v. Midjourney docket (consolidated with Warner Bros.) ↗ · Variety: Midjourney seeks studios' AI use in copyright battle (Jul 2026) ↗
- Total3.5Stored score → Tempo (3.5–4.24)
Hiring and funding from the stored fields add up to +1.5. The stored score of 3.5 includes a judgment call the fields don't capture (often a boundary month or a round we don't count), so traction and red-flag points can't be split out exactly.
Distance (Half) is a separate read on how long the lead can last. It doesn't change the score.
Distance
Half · edge: learns from use
Best-known standalone AI image brand with its own models, a large paying base and profits, but OpenAI and Google now bundle image generation into their assistants and the Hollywood copyright suit is a live risk.
Sources: Forbes: Midjourney company profile ($300M FY2024 revenue, profitable) ↗ · WinBuzzer: Midjourney revenue tops $200M as it eyes hardware (Mar 2026) ↗ · a16z: Top 100 Gen AI Consumer Apps, 7th edition (Oct 2026) ↗
Watch-outs
Consolidated copyright suit by Disney, Universal and Warner Bros. Discovery (filed Jun/Sep 2025) over training and outputs; Variety calls it potentially ruinous; still in discovery.
Sources: CourtListener: Disney Enterprises v. Midjourney docket (consolidated with Warner Bros.) ↗ · Variety: Midjourney seeks studios' AI use in copyright battle (Jul 2026) ↗
Last checked Oct 25, 2026