# Eric Tsai

> Eric Tsai is the co-founder and CEO of Asteroom, a proptech company that turns an ordinary smartphone into a professional 3D virtual tour studio. A former Facebook data scientist, he left big tech in 2019 to chase a stubborn problem in real estate: high-quality property visualization was too expensive and too complicated for the average agent. Under his lead, Asteroom grew to serve tens of thousands of agents and built a nationwide network of certified data collectors, becoming the first 3D tour platform to power property data collection for Freddie Mac's ACE+ PDR and Fannie Mae's value-acceptance programs.

- **Role:** Co-Founder & CEO at Asteroom
- **Organizations:** Asteroom, Basis One (advisor)
- **Education:** B.Sc, Industrial Engineering & Management Science / Economics, Northwestern University, Master's, Management Science, Duke University, Fuqua School of Business
- **Known for:** Co-founded and leads Asteroom, the first 3D virtual tour platform built for real estate agents to shoot on a smartphone, Grew Asteroom to 20,000+ real estate agents creating 3D tours across the United States, Built a nationwide network of 5,000+ trained and certified data collectors able to reach ~90% of the US population within 24 hours

## Career timeline

- **2010** — Summer Analyst at BlackRock
- **2013** — Consultant at Accenture
- **2016** — Data Scientist at Facebook; Data Analyst for marketing & customer acquisition at Square
- **2018** — Co-founded Asteroom
- **2019** — Left Facebook to run Asteroom full-time; also served as Growth Advisor at Basis One
- **2022** — Launched Asteroom property data collection for Freddie Mac ACE+ PDR
- **2023** — Announced universal data collection supporting Fannie Mae value acceptance + property data

## Achievements

- Co-founded and leads Asteroom, the first 3D virtual tour platform built for real estate agents to shoot on a smartphone
- Grew Asteroom to 20,000+ real estate agents creating 3D tours across the United States
- Built a nationwide network of 5,000+ trained and certified data collectors able to reach ~90% of the US population within 24 hours
- Made Asteroom the first 3D tour technology partner to offer property data collection for Freddie Mac's ACE+ PDR program
- Raised a $1.5M seed round (2019)
- Asteroom named a Top 20 PropTech Solution company (2020)

## Latest updates

- **2022-07** — Asteroom announced a first-of-its-kind data capture solution for Freddie Mac's ACE+ PDR offering.
- **2023-05** — Asteroom announced universal data collection supporting Fannie Mae value acceptance + property data.

## Links

- Website: https://asteroom.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/erictsai1989/
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXgjg0UJbTo
- Facebook: https://facebook.com/asteroom3dtour

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Last updated: 2026-06-24