Listen Labs, an AI startup specializing in automated customer interviews, has secured $69 million in a Series B funding round. The capital injection follows a highly publicized hiring campaign where the company placed billboards in tech hubs, challenging engineers to solve a coding puzzle for a job offer. The company’s core product uses artificial intelligence to conduct and analyze large volumes of customer interviews, aiming to provide businesses with faster, scalable insights traditionally gathered by human researchers. The new funds are earmarked for expanding the AI platform’s capabilities, growing the engineering team, and accelerating market adoption. The company’s approach seeks to automate a qualitative research process that is often time-consuming and difficult to scale. Read the full article at: https://venturebeat.com/technology/listen-labs-raises-usd69m-after-viral-billboard-hiring-stunt-to-scale-ai