Generative AI video creation platform for short-form social and marketing content (formerly Captions)
AI📍 New York, NYFounded 2021
Current Valuation
Private
as of 2024-Q3
PRIVATE
IPO Outlookprivate
Is Mirage going public?
No. Mirage is private and has not filed to go public. There is no S-1 on file.
What is Mirage's valuation in 2026?
No confirmed valuation is on record for Mirage. The roster shows funding and investors where they are public; it does not estimate a mark.
Has Mirage filed an S-1?
No public S-1 is on file for Mirage.
Who are Mirage's investors?
Mirage's investors include Index Ventures, Kleiner Perkins, Sequoia Capital, Andreessen Horowitz.
Answers are derived from the roster record shown on this page — filing status, last round and confirmed marks. Where the record is silent, the answer says so rather than guessing.
Mirage, formerly known as Captions, is a generative-AI video platform focused on creating polished short-form video content from scripts, prompts, or raw footage — including AI avatars and digital twins. Founded in 2021 by ex-Snap product leader Gaurav Misra, the company rebranded from Captions to Mirage in September 2025 alongside a strategic pivot to becoming an AI video research lab. Mirage raised a $60M Series C in July 2024 led by Index Ventures with participation from Kleiner Perkins, Sequoia, and a16z.
Company Profile
CEO
Gaurav Misra
Founded
2021
HQ
New York, NY
Employees
~80
Total Raised
$105M
Growth
Pivot from creator tool to AI video research lab
Last Round
Series C — $60M (Jul 2024) · Lead: Index Ventures
IPO Status
private
Fundraising Status
Series C · $60M · 2y 1mo ago
privateTotal raised $105M
Latest Funding Round
Round
Amount
Date
Lead Investor
Post-Money
Series C
$60M
Jul 2024
Index Ventures
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Vertical Intelligence — AI / ML
No verified Hugging Face organization found for Mirage — no attributable open-model footprint. Closed-weights labs are common; this is a distribution signal, not a capability judgment.
Checked huggingface.co as of 2026-08-20. Re-checked weekly.
Talent Signal
Hiring trend
● First snapshot
trend accrues with monthly sweeps
Open roles
10
via ashby
Product-build share
70%
engineering, research, product, design
Trajectory
steady
heavy product build — 70% of open roles are product-building functions (engineering/research/product) — 4 of 10 open roles are engineering.
Actively hiring with no tracked executive churn.
Open roles by month
Open roles by function
■ product-building ■ go-to-market / G&A
Product Designer, Early CareerSoftware Engineer, Web ProductResearch Engineer, Generative VideoResearch Engineer, Agentic SystemsSoftware Engineer, iOSSoftware Engineer, ML Systems
Counted from Mirage's live job board as of 2026-08-17; role functions classified from posting titles. Open-role counts are an activity signal, not headcount. Refreshed monthly.
Founders & Key People
Gaurav MisraDwight Churchill
Investors
Index Ventures · Kleiner Perkins · Sequoia Capital · Andreessen Horowitz
Products
Mirage AI Studio (AI avatar + digital-twin video generation)
AI Video Editor (script-to-video, prompt-to-video)
30-second AI-generated marketing video tooling
Competitors
Runway · Synthesia · HeyGen · Pika Labs
Generative AIVideo AIAvatarsShort-formMarketing
Private-company numbers are not real-time. Reflects publicly disclosed valuations from press releases, news reports, and tender offers as of 2024-Q3. Refreshed quarterly.