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Mirage

Creative tools powered by proprietary video models.

Company snapshot

Stage
Unknown
Status
published
Updated
Nov 4, 2026
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Website
mirage.app

What they're building

Creative tools powered by proprietary video models. Mirage builds creative AI models and tools, including Captions and Tesseract, that turn prompts and source media into editable video, motion, and sound.

Foundation model usage

Editorial estimates from product descriptions. Model providers and actual usage are not confirmed.

Inferred architecture
Batch document processing, Multimodal processing
Potential advantages
Proprietary data
Estimated model demand
High intensity

NYC footprint

Documented NYC location
Union Square, Manhattan · Current occupancy not confirmed; see sources below.

Funding

Public funding details are not disclosed yet.

Sources & location evidence

Open research desk ↗

Profile source review: 2026-11-04. Renamed business formerly known as Captions; Captions remains its flagship creative workspace. Current company job postings explicitly identify an in-person Union Square NYC headquarters. A 169 Madison Avenue PMB/DMCA address is excluded from map evidence. Current funding stage was not verified. Maintain one current Mirage company; Captions is its former company label and current product, not another company. The DMCA/PMB address remains excluded.

Union Square, Manhattan · verified headquarters

Street address not public. Current occupancy not confirmed. Company job listing explicitly describes an in-person NYC headquarters in Union Square. Street address unknown. Exclude 169 Madison Avenue PMB/DMCA address from physical-office map.

Mirage - Software Engineer, Agents ↗

Source checked 2026-11-03

Notes

Mirage is tagged worth watching based on buyer clarity, repeat workflow activity, public activity, and fit with the AI Atlas map.

Hiring

Open roles at Mirage

16 roles from the company's careers page.

Updated 1h ago

SEO/AEO Marketing Lead

MarketingUnion Square, New York CityListed 9h ago

We’re looking for an SEO/AEO Marketing Lead to grow organic acquisition for Captions across search engines and AI assistants.

Software Engineer, Photoreal 3D

EngineeringUnion Square, New York CityListed 1d ago

You'll be the founding engineer for photoreal 3D in Tesseract, our Rust-based, cross-platform graphics and media rendering engine.

Software Engineer, Backend

EngineeringUnion Square, New York CityListed 1d ago

Backend engineering at Mirage isn’t narrowly defined.

Software Engineer, Agents

EngineeringUnion Square, New York CityListed 1d ago

This role focuses on designing and building agentic systems that power creative workflows for short-form video.

Software Engineer, iOS

EngineeringUnion Square, New York CityListed 4d ago

Our iOS team owns end-to-end product experiences for creative workflows—pushing the boundaries of the iOS ecosystem by building sophisticated creative tools that span delightful user interfaces, graphics rendering, and...

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