Captions
Captions is an AI Avatar Video company founded in 2021 and based in New York, United States. It has raised $175M in total funding, most recently a Growth in 2026.
Captions, founded in 2021 by Gaurav Misra and Dwight Churchill in New York, is an AI video-creation and editing app used by millions of creators, plus an 'AI actor' avatar studio that generates performers from a prompt. In September 2025 the company renamed its corporate entity Mirage to signal an expanded focus on building foundation models for short-form video while keeping the Captions consumer app. In 2026 Mirage raised $75M in growth financing from General Catalyst's Customer Value Fund, taking total funding to about $175M.
A consumer-scale AI video app whose prompt-to-actor avatar studio pushes generative video toward fully synthetic performers.
captions.ai ↗·AI Avatar Video·
United States·private 
