In addition, Martin Casado, General Partner at a16z, is joining Ideogram's board, and the company today announced Ideogram 1.0.: Taking a break from complaining about Google Gemini’s racially confused AI imagery, Marc Andreessen and his compatriots at the mega VC firm Andreseen Horowitz (a16z) have upped their investment in a rival image generation startup, Ideogram, leading the firm’s $80 million Series A financing, the two companies announced today.