Toronto generative AI company building text-to-image foundation models known for rendering legible text in images. Ships a consumer app, an API, enterprise custom models and the open-weight Ideogram 4.0.
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Toronto generative AI company building text-to-image foundation models known for rendering legible text in images. Ships a consumer app, an API, enterprise custom models and the open-weight Ideogram 4.0.
Federal corporation 1457910-1, incorporated under the CBCA on 2022-12-05, status Active, with a registered office at 320 Bay Street, Suite 700, Toronto. ised-isde.canada.ca
Raised an $80M USD Series A in February 2024 led by Andreessen Horowitz, with Index Ventures, Redpoint Ventures, Pear VC and SV Angel. betakit.com
States it has raised nearly $100M in total, led by Andreessen Horowitz and Index Ventures. A cumulative figure across rounds, not a single raise. jobs.ashbyhq.com
Founded by four researchers who worked on Google's Imagen and Imagen Video models, per a16z's own investment announcement. a16z.com
Products Ideogram publishes on its own site. Each card links to the page it was taken from.
Open-weight image model
The company describes it as an "Open image model at the forefront of design" — a 9.3B single-stream Diffusion Transformer trained from scratch, with a vision-language text encoder, multilingual text rendering, layout control and 2K output.
Learn moreCustom models and workflows
Company states: "We train a model on your data that outperforms off-the-shelf tools, then build workflows to scale it." Sold to enterprise creative and marketing teams.
Learn moreAnnounced rounds only, newest first. Undisclosed amounts are shown as undisclosed.
Feb 28, 2024
Investors: Andreessen Horowitz, Index Ventures, Redpoint Ventures, Pear VC, SV Angel
Ideogram published technical details for Ideogram 4.0, describing it as its first open-weight foundation model — a 9.3B single-stream Diffusion Transformer trained from scratch with a vision-language text encoder and structured JSON prompts, released with weights on Hugging Face.
Ideogram announced an $80M USD Series A led by a16z with Index Ventures, Redpoint Ventures, Pear VC and SV Angel, alongside a new text-to-image model release. a16z partner Martin Casado joined the board.
Sourced from the company's own pages or announcements.
Mohammad Norouzi
Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer
Jonathan Ho
Co-founder
William Chan
Co-founder
Chitwan Saharia
Co-founder
Terms the company uses about its own work.
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