Captions is a video-editing app for iOS, Android, Web and desktop. It offers a suite of artificial intelligence tools aimed at streamlining the creation of narrated videos in which social media content creators directly interact with an audience through the camera.
Company type | Private company |
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Industry | Artificial intelligence |
Founded | 2021 |
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Headquarters | New York City, United States |
Website | captions |
Captions automates common production tasks including captioning, editing, dubbing, script creation, and music integration.[1][2]
The company was recognized as part of Fast Company's "Next Big Things In Tech" series.[3]
History edit
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]
Captions announced in June 2023 that it had raised $25 million in a Series B. The round was led by Silicon Valley venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins, with participation from Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia Capital, and SV Angel.[4] The funding round valued the startup at $250 million and brought the company's total capital raised to $40 million. The company additionally released Lipdub, an Al dubbing app which translates any video with spoken audio into 28 languages.[5][6]
Reception edit
The company reported that more than five million users have used its iOS and web products between its launch in December 2022 and October 2023.[citation needed] In October 2023, Captions shared that it maintained over 100,000 daily active users with "about a million" videos being created monthly.[1][5]
References edit
- ^ a b c Shrivastava, Rashi. "Video Editing App Captions Just Raised $25 Million To Bring AI To Creators". Forbes. Retrieved March 9, 2024.
- ^ Caplan, Jeremy. "This app makes it easy to narrate and caption your videos". FastCompany. Retrieved March 9, 2024.
- ^ Newman, Jared. "The 4 next big things in apps for 2023". FastCompany. Retrieved March 9, 2024.
- ^ Franzen, Carl (June 22, 2023). "AI video creation app Captions bags $25M from top VCs". VentureBeat. Retrieved March 9, 2024.
- ^ a b Franzen, Carl (October 10, 2023). "Video startup Captions launches new AI dubbing app Lipdub with Gen Z slang". VentureBeat. Retrieved March 9, 2024.
- ^ Florian, Amanda (February 9, 2024). "When A.I. Bridged a Language Gap, They Fell in Love". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved March 9, 2024.