Captions (app)

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.

Captions automates common production tasks including captioning, editing, dubbing, script creation, and music integration.

The company was recognized as part of Fast Company 's "Next Big Things In Tech" series.

History
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.

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. 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.

Reception
In October 2023, Captions shared that it maintained over 100,000 daily active users with "about a million" videos being created monthly.