| Company type | Private company |
|---|---|
| Industry | Artificial intelligence |
| Founded | 2021 |
| Founders |
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| Headquarters | New York City, United States |
| Website | captions |
Captions is a video-editing and AI research company headquartered in New York City. Their flagship app, Captions, is available on iOS, Android, and Web and offers a suite of tools aimed at streamlining the creation and editing of videos.
Captions was co-founded by Gaurav Misra and Dwight Churchill. During Misra's time leading design engineering at Snap Inc., he followed the rise of a new category of video, the "talking video." In 2021, Misra left Snap to found Captions with his former colleague Churchill. [1] Later that year, the Captions app launched with early backing from venture capital firms Sequoia Capital and Andreessen Horowitz as well as individual investors. [2] [3]
In 2023, the company released Lipdub, an Al dubbing app which translates any video with spoken audio into 28 languages. [4] [5]
In October 2023, Captions shared that it maintained over 100,000 daily active users with "about a million" videos being created monthly. [1] [4]
In November 2024, Captions acquired AlpacaML, a generative AI company that focused on art and other images. [6]
The Captions app offers features to automate common production tasks including captioning, editing, dubbing, script creation, and music integration. [1] [7]