David Holz

David Holz is the Founder of Midjourney, is a generative artificial intelligence (AI)-powered platform that allows users to generate unique artwork such as characters, images and depictions through short text prompts. Midjourney was founded in 2021. David was formerly CTO & Co-founder of Leap Motion, now Ultraleap, the world’s most advanced hand-tracking technology. Prior to founding the company, David contracted for NASA’s Langley Research Center and conducted neuroscience research while at The Max Planck Institute. He studied applied math at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, ultimately leaving his Ph.D. program to co-found Leap Motion.

David is an alumnus of the International Science and Engineering Fair 2006.