Founder of a listed tool

Eric Ciarla

Co-founder, Firecrawl (Mendable), named behind the Firecrawl MCP listing on Anchor Terminal.

Eric Ciarla

Co-founder, Firecrawl (Mendable)

Eric Ciarla is co-founder and chief growth officer of Firecrawl, an AI web crawling company started in 2022 as part of Y Combinator. Before Firecrawl, the founders built Mendable and SideGuide. Ciarla's Y Combinator profile also lists earlier work at Ford Motor Company and studies at the University of New Hampshire.

What Eric builds

  • Firecrawl MCP A · Web scraping & crawling

    Official Firecrawl server for scraping pages to markdown/JSON, mapping and crawling sites, web search, browser interaction, monitoring and an autonomous research agent.

    Co-founder, Firecrawl (Mendable), researched 26 October 2026 · the people behind it

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Who is Eric Ciarla?

Eric Ciarla is co-founder and chief growth officer of Firecrawl, an AI web crawling company started in 2022 as part of Y Combinator. Before Firecrawl, the founders built Mendable and SideGuide. Ciarla's Y Combinator profile also lists earlier work at Ford Motor Company and studies at the University of New Hampshire.

What does Firecrawl (Mendable) make?

Anchor Terminal lists Firecrawl MCP from Firecrawl (Mendable). Official Firecrawl server for scraping pages to markdown/JSON, mapping and crawling sites, web search, browser interaction, monitoring and an autonomous research agent.

Who has invested in Firecrawl (Mendable)?

The sources our research read name Y Combinator, Nexus Venture Partners, Zapier, Tobias Lütke, Abhinav Asthana, Matt McClure, Smash Capital, Altos Ventures, Freestyle and Offline Ventures.

How are Eric's tools graded?

Firecrawl MCP is graded A, 78 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.

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