Startup profile for Captions: latest funding, latest known valuation, total disclosed funding, investors, status, sources, and why the company is interesting. Part of the Venture Capital Tracker startup directory.
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Captions funding, valuation and investors

AI creative studio for scripting, recording, and editing short-form talking videos.

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Funding, valuation & investors

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Latest funding

Series B

$25M · 2023

Latest known valuation

Not publicly disclosed

Total disclosed equity funding

$25M

Excludes debt, grants, acquisitions, secondaries, and IPO proceeds.

Current status

private

series b · New York, New York

Investors in latest funding

Lead: Kleiner Perkins

Other: Sequoia , Andreessen Horowitz

Source links not recorded Last verified: 2026-07-25

Overview

Captions is an AI creative studio for mobile — scripting, recording, editing, and publishing short-form talking-head videos with automated captions and generative effects.

Why Captions is interesting

Captions turned automated captions into a full mobile AI video suite; Kleiner-led Series B syndicate included Sequoia alongside a16z.

Product & use cases

AI mobile video studio — scripting, teleprompter, auto-captions, editing, and publishing for short-form talking-head content.

  • Mobile short-form video creation for creators
  • Automated captioning and editing
  • AI-assisted script-to-video workflow

Key facts

  • Series B (2023): $25M led by Kleiner Perkins; Sequoia and a16z participated (Captions blog)
  • Seed: a16z and Sequoia among early backers (a16z announcement)

Funding history (newest first)

Series B

2023 $25M

Investors in our directory

Funds linked from Captions's profile — open a fund page for stage focus and related deal articles.

Andreessen Horowitz Sequoia Capital Kleiner Perkins

Competitive landscape

Edge: Captions turned automated captions into a full mobile AI video suite; Kleiner-led Series B syndicate included Sequoia alongside a16z.

Captions operates in ai-ml, media-entertainment. Captions turned automated captions into a full mobile AI video suite; Kleiner-led Series B syndicate included Sequoia alongside a16z.

  • CapCut direct

    ByteDance video editor with AI features.

  • Descript adjacent

    Desktop video editing with transcription.

  • Opus Clip adjacent

    AI clip generation from long-form.

Notable stories

  • Expanded from caption app to full AI video studio.
  • Kleiner-led $25M Series B in 2023.

Industries

AI & Machine Learning Media & Entertainment

FAQs about Captions

Practical answers founders, operators, and investors typically search for.

Captions started as an auto-captioning app and expanded into a full AI video studio for creators — scripts, teleprompter, editing, and publishing short-form content from mobile.
Andreessen Horowitz (see /fund/andreessen-horowitz) and Sequoia (see /fund/sequoia) backed early rounds. Kleiner Perkins (see /fund/kleiner-perkins) led the $25M Series B in 2023.
Series B ($25M, 2023). The company remains private and competes in the creator AI video tooling space.
It turned a single-feature caption app into a full mobile AI production suite — a playbook other creator tools are following as generative video commoditizes.
No — Captions remains private.
Headquarters not publicly disclosed in sources we index.
Founding year not publicly disclosed in sources we index.
Captions has not publicly disclosed profitability.
See fundraising rounds and highlights on this profile for disclosed amounts.
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