# Salesforce agrees to acquire Listen Labs for a reported $2B

_Published Thursday, October 1, 2026 at 4:06 AM EDT · Products, AI, Capital · Latest · Tier 2 — Notable_

Salesforce has agreed to buy AI customer research startup Listen Labs for a reported $2B, Axios reported. Listen Labs raised a $69M Series B at a $500M valuation in January. The company operates in customer research, where businesses are seeking AI alternatives to manual methods of finding out what customers think.

## Sources

- [Techmeme](https://www.techmeme.com/261001/p5#a261001p5)

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