David Nelson (born May 25, 1993^[1]) is an American software developer and CEO of Motion AI, an Artificial Intelligence software company.

In 2009, at age 15, following a report by CNN^[2] Nelson gained attention in the media for developing the Muziic^[3][4] streaming music application. The service garnered over 250 million listens worldwide.^[5] Muziic was controversial to some in the music industry because it allowed access to stream music videos, through YouTube, but aggregated and displayed the songs in a way geared toward listening and building playlists. Because this occurred prior to services like Spotify coming to the United States, free applications like this were rare and often illegal.^{[citation needed]}

David later went on to found FanRx (formerly BandRx^[6]) in 2012, a social media software company for musicians and brands. The service gained over 225,000 subscribers and entered the Top 5 most popular music applications on Facebook.

In 2013, Nelson launched Mass Threat, a game development subsidiary of FanRx, catering to the music industry. Mass Threat has worked with Train, Fall Out Boy, Panic! at the Disco and Sia,^[7] among others, to develop and launch games geared toward their fans. Mass Threat games collectively have been downloaded over 5 million times, according to the company's website.

In November 2015, Nelson unveiled Motion AI on Product Hunt, where it was number one for the day and earned a top spot in the all-time rankings. The company aims to bring Artificial Intelligence technologies to the masses by building a "UI for AI". In one of the fastest funding rounds in Chicago area history,^[8] Motion AI subsequently raised $700,000 in seed funding to expand the team and build out the product, as reported in the Chicago Tribune.^[9]

Motion AI was named one of Chicago's "50 Startups to Watch" in 2016.^[10]

In 2015, Nelson proposed to his girlfriend Chelsea on stage at a Train show in the Bahamas, following an introduction from Pat Monahan.^[11]

• Motion AI
• Muziic
• FanRx
• Mass Threat
• Twitter Page
• Website

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