# Midjourney — Midjourney’s First Acquisition

- Company: Midjourney (midjourney.com)
- Announced: 2026-07-23
- Category: not stated
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: announcements
- Source: https://updates.midjourney.com/midjourneys-first-acquisition/
- Record: https://forck.live/items/18584-midjourney-s-first-acquisition
- Subject: Midjourney V8

As a kid, all I wanted was a cool-place to work on cool-projects with cool-people. Projects to help people and push the world towards beauty, awe, and splendor. As an adult I find myself in the unusual position of having everything I wanted and two questions come to mind next: How can I use this opportunity to make baby David proud? And what the heck did Baby David know anyway? The answer will look like the slow blossoming of a very unusual research lab. The beginning of which you’re starting to see with Midjourney Medical. The maturation will look like the announcement of half a dozen similarly ambitious projects over the next 6 months. Frankly, it’s exciting, and scary, and the only thing I know for sure is I’m gonna need help. So this is why we’re announcing our first acquisition today which is: Co–Star. I first met Banu, the founder of Co–Star, a little over 5 years ago as I was thinking about the ways people reflect and make decisions both in the present, future, and over the past thousands of years. Over half a decade we began to talk quite frequently, often several hours a week! …

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