Eric Botto

Entrepreneur and Board Advisor

📍 United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 1 investments📅 6 years investing🗓 Last invested Nov 2020
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2020
Board Member
Nov 2020
TuneIn, the world’s leading live audio service, brings together live radio, sports, news, music, podcasts, and audiobooks from around the globe. With more than 75 million monthly active users, TuneIn is one of the most widely used audio platforms in the world. TuneIn broadcasts over 100k owned & operated and partner radio stations. With premier distribution across 200 platforms and connected devices including Tesla and Alexa, TuneIn empowers listeners to hear what they love wherever they are, including exclusive commercial-free stations from the minds of folks like Garth Brooks. TuneIn Premium subscribers get additional exclusive access to commercial-free news from top networks like CNN, Fox News Radio, MSNBC, and Bloomberg, as well as live, cant miss F1, MLB, NHL, and college sports. _________________________________________________________________ TuneIn has been made aware of fraudulent activities by individuals impersonating our company. We have reported this fraudulent activity to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), the Department of Justice, and local authorities. When considering a position at TuneIn, keep in mind that all legitimate communications from TuneIn will come from official email addresses ending in @tunein.com, and all of our current job openings are listed on our official careers page. If you find a job listing on another site, cross-check it with our official website. TuneIn does not require any form of payment or sensitive personal information during the recruitment process and all genuine interviews are conducted through Zoom. If you receive any suspicious communication, please do not hesitate to verify its authenticity by reaching out to us via TuneIn LinkedIn’s page. If you have been targeted by these scammers, we encourage you to report it to the FTC at https://reportfraud.ftc.gov/, and the FBI at https://www.ic3.gov/.
2010
Advisor
2010
Innovation Endeavors is an early-stage venture capital firm that invests in cutting-edge technologies to drive generational change in order to solve problems that matter. The firm’s central investment thesis, the Super Evolution, combines data, computational capacity, and advanced engineering to transform a range of industries including engineering health, climate, computing infrastructure, intelligent software, the physical economy, and more. Its investments include Afresh, AlphaSense, Atom Computing, Color, Gatik, Eikon Therapeutics, Fabric, Homelight, Kong, Formlabs, Panther, Planet, Replica, SoFi, Uber, Upstart, Vicarious Surgical, and more.
Co-Founder & CTO
2010
Rakuten Slice is online shopping, smarter. Rakuten Slice’s technology automatically identifies e-receipts within inboxes and extracts every data point about every purchase to create digital commerce products that delight consumers and create business value for partners. Rakuten 
Slice is transforming online shopping and retail by unveiling never-before-seen digital commerce data via its e-commerce intelligence products, APIs and consumer applications. Rakuten Slice operates a market research business, Rakuten Intelligence. With a methodology grounded in science, only we offer vital intelligence that is the pulse of the digital economy--actual purchases directly from online shoppers, on any device or location, reported daily. This is high-definition data. Rakuten Intelligence is led by a team of measurement industry executives who have brought some of the most innovative and successful digital measurement products to market. Learn more at www.rakutenintelligence.com and on twitter @Rakuten_intel. Based in San Mateo, CA, as an independent, wholly-owned subsidiary of Rakuten. About Our Culture We are a curious, creative team of people who love to solve big, challenging problems. We foster a culture of learning and thrive on continuous improvement through teamwork to build better products and a better company. We were founded by proven entrepreneurs and offers the best of both words: a start-up with the backing of an established global company that is revolutionizing the internet services landscape, Rakuten. Rakuten Slice was incubated as a research project at Stanford, where the best and brightest minds in machine learning set forth how to extract business value from the vast amount of unstructured purchase data from inboxes. When we took that project out of the lab and to the market, we retained the culture of excellence and personal growth, with respect for a healthy work-life balance. Because we love what we do and care about the people we work with.
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2000
Co-Founder & CTO
2000
FiberTower Corporation is a backhaul and access transport provider focused primarily on the wireless carrier market. With its extensive spectrum footprint in 24 GHz and 39 GHz bands, carrier-class microwave and fiber networks in 13 major markets, customer commitments from six of the leading cellular carriers, and partnerships with the largest tower operators in the U.S, FiberTower is considered to be the leading alternative carrier for wireless backhaul.