Listen Labs, an AI startup specializing in automated customer interviews, has secured $69 million in a Series B funding round. The investment follows a highly publicized hiring stunt where the company placed a billboard in San Francisco’s tech corridor, offering a $10,000 signing bonus to attract engineers. The viral marketing effort successfully drew attention to the company’s core product: an AI platform that conducts and analyzes thousands of customer interviews simultaneously to provide businesses with deep, qualitative insights at scale. The new capital will be used to accelerate product development, expand the engineering team, and scale go-to-market operations. The funding round was led by prominent venture capital firms, signaling strong investor confidence in applying AI to market research and customer discovery. Read the full article: https://venturebeat.com/technology/listen-labs-raises-usd69m-after-viral-billboard-hiring-stunt-to-scale-ai