Ideogram

AI · Toronto, US

Generative-AI image model (text-in-image generation)

Founders

Mohammad Norouzi (Iran · ♂) — A Google Brain scientist who worked on the Imagen text-to-image system, he co-founded Ideogram in 2022 as CEO to build a generative image model that excels at rendering legible text.
William Chan (Canada · ♂) — A Google Brain researcher on Imagen, he co-founded Ideogram in 2022 as CTO to develop a high-quality, text-aware text-to-image AI platform.
Chitwan Saharia (India · ♂) — A core contributor to Google's Imagen, he co-founded Ideogram in 2022 to push state-of-the-art generative image modeling outside Big Tech.
Jonathan Ho (United States · ♂) — A pioneer of diffusion models (DDPM) and Imagen contributor, he co-founded Ideogram in 2022 to commercialize cutting-edge text-to-image diffusion technology.

Shares the most investors with (number = shared investors):

Date	Round	Amount
Feb 2024	Series A Ideogram, a Midjourney-rival image-generation startup, raised an $80M Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz, with Index Ventures, Redpoint Ventures, Pear VC and SV Angel.	$80M
Aug 2023	Seed US text-to-image AI startup Ideogram raised a $16.5m seed round co-led by Andreessen Horowitz and Index Ventures.	$16.5M

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