# Eric Ciarla (slim)

> Eric Ciarla is co-founder of Firecrawl (Mendable). Firecrawl MCP on Anchor Terminal, with grades, an about and public profiles.

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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.

- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/eric-ciarla/
- X: https://x.com/ericciarla

## What Eric builds

- [Firecrawl MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/firecrawl-mcp.md), graded A, 78/100, in 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 2026-10-26.

## Works with

- [Caleb Peffer](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/caleb-peffer/), Co-founder, Firecrawl (Mendable)
- [Nicolas Silberstein Camara](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/nicolas-silberstein-camara/), Co-founder, Firecrawl (Mendable)

## Backed by

- [Y Combinator](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/y-combinator/)
- [Nexus Venture Partners](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/nexus-venture-partners/)
- [Zapier](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/zapier/)
- [Tobias Lütke](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/tobias-lutke/)
- [Abhinav Asthana](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/abhinav-asthana/)
- [Matt McClure](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/matt-mcclure/)
- [Smash Capital](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/smash-capital/)
- [Altos Ventures](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/altos-ventures/)
- [Freestyle](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/freestyle/)
- [Offline Ventures](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/offline-ventures/)

## Questions

### 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.

### What does Firecrawl (Mendable) make?

Anchor Terminal lists Firecrawl MCP from Firecrawl (Mendable).

### 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.

## Sources

- https://www.firecrawl.dev/about
- https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/firecrawl
- https://www.firecrawl.dev/

These are the people building the tools we list, named for their public role in the company or project behind a listing, from public pages, with the date it was researched.