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Listen Labs

Listen Labs sells AI-moderated customer interviews at scale to enterprise product, marketing, and insights teams who need qualitative research in hours instead of weeks.

listenlabs.ai · San Francisco

CALL NO.CS·LISTENLABS·26
StageSeries BJanuary 2026 · led by Ribbit Capital[1][8]
Raised$100Mdisclosed rounds[8][7][3]
Headcount61as of Apr 2026[7][3]
Valuationnot publicly disclosedno source in ledger
Founded2023[7][3]
Money

Raised $100M across disclosed rounds.[8][7][3]

Series B closed January 2026, led by Ribbit Capital.[1][8]

post-money valuation is not publicly disclosed.

Named investors include Ribbit Capital, Sequoia Capital, Evantic, Conviction, Pear VC.[1][8][2]

People

Alfred Wahlforss, Co-Founder & CEO[3][2][7]

Florian Juengermann, Co-Founder & CTO[3][2][7]

Zachary Van Zant, VP Revenue[5][4][6]

Jin Baik, Head of Marketing[5][4][6]

Anish Rao, Head of Growth[5][4][6]

Signals
May 19 2026hiringHeadcount at 61 employees, up 875% year-over-year company claim, not independently confirmed[7]
Mar 1 2026hiringHead of Marketing (Jin Baik, ex-Rippling PMM Director) joined March 2026[4]
Jan 14 2026funding$69M Series B closed, led by Ribbit Capital[8][1]
Jan 1 2026hiringVP Revenue (Zachary Van Zant, ex-Persona/Asana) and Head of Growth (Anish Rao, ex-YipitData) joined in January 2026, signaling enterprise go-to-market build-out post-Series B[5][6]
Apr 24 2025otherEnterprise customer base includes Microsoft, Google, Sweetgreen, Robinhood, Perplexity, SKIMS, and Nestlé[2][8]
Comps

UserTesting · usertesting.com · Same buyer (enterprise product and UX research teams), same workflow (panel-recruited moderated interviews), and same budget line as Listen Labs; Listen's AI-moderated voice interviews are a direct functional substitute for UserTesting's human-recorded...[2][7]

Maze · maze.co · Overlaps with Listen Labs on the product-team buyer running rapid, unmoderated or lightly moderated research studies at scale; both compress the research cycle and compete for the same 'fast qualitative insight' budget inside product and growth teams.[2][7]

Qualtrics · qualtrics.com · Listed in Listen Labs' own tech stack as a prior-generation tool; both compete for the enterprise insights team budget and the qualitative/quantitative customer research workflow — Listen positions itself as the AI-native replacement for survey-and-moderation...[7]

Medallia · medallia.com · Listed alongside Qualtrics in Listen Labs' tech stack, indicating direct displacement potential; both Medallia and Listen target enterprise insights and CX teams seeking to understand customer sentiment at scale.[7]

Respondent · respondent.io · Competes on the participant-recruitment layer that Listen Labs bundles into its end-to-end workflow; enterprise research teams choosing Listen forgo standalone recruitment platforms like Respondent in favor of Listen's integrated 30-million-person panel.[7]

Risk

The customer proof is company-sourced only. No independent source in this ledger confirms it.[7]

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CALL NO.CS·LISTENLABS·26

Listen Labs sells AI-moderated customer interviews at scale to enterprise product, marketing, and insights teams who need qualitative research in hours instead of weeks.

listenlabs.ai · San Francisco

StageSeries B
Raised$100M
Headcount61
Valuationnot publicly disclosed
Founded2023
CompsUserTesting +4

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