Captions
Generate and edit talking videos with AI.
HQRemote
Team Size125
Open Jobs9
Total Funding-
Latest Fundraise2 years ago
Generate and edit talking videos with AI.
What they do: AI-powered video creation and editing focused on short-form creator tools
Founded: 2021
Founders / leadership: Gaurav Misra (Co‑Founder & CEO), Dwight Churchill (Co‑Founder & COO)
Scale (reported): Claims: 10M+ creators, 100K+ daily users, 3M+ monthly videos
Funding: $25M Series B (Jun 2023); $60M Series C (Jul 2024); ~ $100M total reported
Short-form creator video production and editing
2021
Creator tools / Video editing / Generative AI
$25M
$60M
Participation from Kleiner Perkins, Sequoia Capital, Andreessen Horowitz; new investors include Adobe Ventures and HubSpot Ventures
“Backed by prominent VCs including Index Ventures, Kleiner Perkins, Sequoia Capital, and Andreessen Horowitz”
Captions is the leading AI video company—our mission is to empower anyone, anywhere to tell their stories through video. Over 10 million creators and businesses have used Captions to simplify video creation with truly novel and groundbreaking AI capabilities.
We are a rapidly growing team of ambitious, experienced, and devoted engineers, researchers, designers, marketers, and operators based in NYC. As an early member of our team, you’ll have an opportunity to have an outsized impact on our products and our company's culture.
Our Technology
Mirage Announcement our proprietary omni-modal foundation model
Seeing Voices (technical paper)
Mirage Studio for generating expressive videos at scale
"Captions: For Talking Videos” available in the iOS app store
Press Coverage
Lenny’s Podcast: Interview with Gaurav Misra (CEO)
Latest Fundraise: Series C Announcement
The Information: 50 Most Promising Startups
Fast Company: Next Big Things in Tech
Business Insider: 34 most promising AI startups
TIME: The Best Inventions of 2024
Our Investors
We’re very fortunate to have some the best investors and entrepreneurs backing us, including Index Ventures, Kleiner Perkins, Sequoia Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, Uncommon Projects, Kevin Systrom, Mike Krieger, Lenny Rachitsky, Antoine Martin, Julie Zhuo, Ben Rubin, Jaren Glover, SVAngel, 20VC, Ludlow Ventures, Chapter One, and more.
** Please note that all of our roles will require you to be in-person at our NYC HQ (located in Union Square)
We do not work with third-party recruiting agencies, please do not contact us**
About the role:
Note: we don’t promote hierarchical titles or levels internally, “Principal Engineer” is for external clarity—we’re looking for a highly experienced engineer who can solve some of our hardest technical challenges, shape architectural direction, and provide technical leadership.
As a technical lead, you will architect and drive platform-wide initiatives that push the boundaries of distributed systems, and you will solve complex technical challenges at massive scale. Your work will ensure our software engineering organization can innovate quickly and reliably, ultimately helping creators around the world tell their stories through video.
Key Responsibilities:
Requirements:
Captions provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.
Please note benefits apply to full time employees only.
Compensation Range: $200K - $300K