Listen Labs, an AI startup specializing in automated customer interviews, has secured $69 million in Series B funding. The round was led by Sequoia Capital and included participation from existing investors. The company gained significant attention earlier this year through a viral billboard campaign in San Francisco that directly targeted engineers from OpenAI and Anthropic for hiring, a move that successfully filled key roles. The new capital will be used to accelerate product development and scale its AI-driven platform, which conducts hyper-realistic, automated customer interviews to generate qualitative insights for businesses. The company reports that its technology can conduct thousands of interviews simultaneously, analyzing sentiment and extracting themes to complement traditional quantitative data. Read the full article at: https://venturebeat.com/technology/listen-labs-raises-usd69m-after-viral-billboard-hiring-stunt-to-scale-ai