Media, Ads & Creative AIEarly StageFeaturedMirage (formerly Captions)
Mirage (originally Captions) is an AI video creation company offering consumer apps for creators plus Mirage Studio, an enterprise platform that generates AI actors and videos for marketing campaigns.
Startup snapshot
- Stage
- Early Stage
- Funding
- Series B · $60M · Jan 1, 2023
- Status
- published
- Updated
- Apr 16, 2026
- Views
- Category
- Media, Ads & Creative AI
- Website
- captions.ai
What they're building
Mirage (originally Captions) is an AI video creation company offering consumer apps for creators plus Mirage Studio, an enterprise platform that generates AI actors and videos for marketing campaigns.
Founders
Gaurav Misra
Co-founder
Foundation model usage
Editorial estimates from product descriptions. Model providers and actual usage are not confirmed.
- Inferred architecture
- Consumer inference, Batch document processing, Multimodal processing
- Estimated model demand
- Very high intensity
Funding
Latest funding: Series B · $60M · Jan 1, 2023. Total raised: $90M+. Lead investor: Sequoia / Andreessen Horowitz / Kleiner Perkins.
AI Lab Fit
Strong fit for multimodal generation, campaign copy, image and video ideation, brand memory, structured creative variants, and agentic production workflows.
Notes
Mirage (formerly Captions) is tagged featured based on buyer clarity, repeat workflow activity, public activity, and fit with the AI Atlas map.
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