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Mirage

Mirage

B2C
New York, United StatesFounded 2021$175M raised4 open roles

Mirage (formerly Captions) is an AI video company that offers an all-in-one AI video editor and generator. Its flagship product, Captions, enables creators and businesses to produce polished short-form videos with automated captions, AI avatars, and intelligent editing. Mirage is expanding into AI video foundational model research targeting advertising and marketing industries.

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Mirage (formerly Captions) is an AI video company that offers an all-in-one AI video editor and generator. Its flagship product, Captions, enables creators and businesses to produce polished short-form videos with automated captions, AI avatars, and intelligent editing. Mirage is expanding into AI video foundational model research targeting advertising and marketing industries.

Founded in 2021 in New York City by Gaurav Misra and Dwight Churchill, the company launched as Captions — an AI-powered video editing app focused on automated captions and creator tools. Having grown to 20 million users, the company rebranded as Mirage in September 2025 to reflect its expanded mission as an AI research lab building multimodal foundational models for short-form video.

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Gaurav Misra

Co-Founder & CEO

Previously Design Engineering at Snap Inc.

Gaurav Misra is co-founder and CEO of Mirage (formerly Captions). Previously worked in design engineering at Snap Inc. before building Captions into a leading AI video platform.

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Gaurav Misra

Co-Founder & CEO

Previously Head of Design Engineering at Snap Inc.

Co-founder and CEO of Mirage (formerly Captions). Previously Head of Design Engineering at Snap Inc. for ~5 years, and a software engineer at Microsoft during the Azure launch.

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Dwight Churchill

Co-Founder & COO

Previously Finance at Goldman Sachs

Dwight Churchill is co-founder and COO of Mirage. He previously worked at Goldman Sachs before co-founding Captions, now Mirage.

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Dwight Churchill

Co-Founder & COO

Previously Engineer at Klaviyo

Co-founder and COO of Mirage (formerly Captions). Engineering background with prior experience at Goldman Sachs and Klaviyo.

Funding

$175M raised total

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