| Company type | Private company |
|---|---|
| Industry | Artificial intelligence |
| Founded | 2021 |
| Founders |
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| Headquarters | New York City, United States |
| Website | captions |
Captions is a video-editing and AI research company headquartered in New York City. Their flagship app, Captions, is available on iOS, Android, and Web and offers a suite of tools aimed at streamlining the creation and editing of videos.
Captions offers features to automate common production tasks including captioning, editing, dubbing, script creation, and music integration.
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.
In 2022, 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.
Awards
- In 2023, the company was recognized as part of Fast Company's "Next Big Things In Tech" series.
- In 2024, the company won 2 Webby Awards for Best Use of AI & Machine Learning and Creative Production.
References
- ^ Shrivastava, Rashi. "Video Editing App Captions Just Raised $25 Million To Bring AI To Creators". Forbes. Retrieved 2024-03-09.
- Caplan, Jeremy. "This app makes it easy to narrate and caption your videos". FastCompany. Retrieved 2024-03-09.
- ^ Franzen, Carl (2023-10-10). "Video startup Captions launches new AI dubbing app Lipdub with Gen Z slang". VentureBeat. Retrieved 2024-03-09.
- Florian, Amanda (2024-02-09). "When A.I. Bridged a Language Gap, They Fell in Love". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2024-03-09.
- Newman, Jared. "The 4 next big things in apps for 2023". FastCompany. Retrieved 2024-03-09.