Overview
- Lightspeed Venture Partners led the $6 million seed round, with Seven Stars, Uncommon Projects, The Tornante Company and several tech angels participating.
- Dialogue AI was founded by Benjamin Lo, Justin Hoang and Hubert Chen, who previously worked together at Nextdoor.
- The platform automates study design, participant recruitment, live interviewing and synthesis, featuring an AI interviewer that can run simultaneous real-time conversations with thousands of participants.
- Dialogue says it can cut project timelines from weeks to roughly a day and is selling the product as an enterprise SaaS offering with tiered pricing.
- Early traction includes about a dozen customers such as Nextdoor, Square and Wayfair, which told the company the tool saves seven hours per study, and the team has 10 employees with plans to hire across engineering, design and go-to-market.