Listen Labs, a startup specializing in AI-powered customer interview analysis, has secured $69 million in a Series B funding round. The capital injection 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 funding will be used to accelerate the development and scaling of their core platform, which uses artificial intelligence to conduct, transcribe, and analyze large volumes of customer interviews. The company’s technology is designed to help businesses extract actionable insights from qualitative customer feedback at a much larger scale than traditional methods allow. The successful funding round highlights investor confidence in applying AI to the market research and customer discovery space. Read the full article at: https://venturebeat.com/technology/listen-labs-raises-usd69m-after-viral-billboard-hiring-stunt-to-scale-ai