Listen Labs, an AI startup specializing in automated customer interviews, has secured $69 million in a Series B funding round led by Sequoia Capital. The capital infusion follows a highly publicized hiring campaign where the company placed a billboard in San Francisco’s tech-heavy South of Market district, directly challenging engineers from major tech firms to join them. The company’s core product is an AI platform that automates and scales qualitative customer research, conducting conversational interviews and analyzing the results to provide businesses with actionable insights. The new funding will be used to accelerate product development, expand the engineering team, and scale go-to-market operations. The company reports that its platform is already used by hundreds of product teams to conduct thousands of interviews monthly. Read the full article at: https://venturebeat.com/technology/listen-labs-raises-usd69m-after-viral-billboard-hiring-stunt-to-scale-ai