Listen Labs, an AI startup specializing in analyzing customer interviews, has secured $69 million in a Series A funding round. The capital injection follows a widely publicized hiring stunt where the company advertised a job opening on a billboard in San Francisco, which generated significant online attention. The funds will be used to scale the company’s core technology, which automates the process of conducting and analyzing customer interviews using artificial intelligence. The platform is designed to help businesses extract actionable insights from customer conversations more efficiently than manual methods. The company reports that its AI can identify key themes and sentiments from interview transcripts, aiming to streamline product development and marketing research. The funding round was led by prominent venture capital firms, signaling strong investor confidence in the application of AI for qualitative data analysis. Read the full article at: https://venturebeat.com/technology/listen-labs-raises-usd69m-after-viral-billboard-hiring-stunt-to-scale-ai