Who is Eric Ciarla?
Eric Ciarla is a co-founder and the Chief Growth Officer of Firecrawl. Firecrawl is a web data API that lets AI agents search, scrape and read the web.
About Eric Ciarla
Growth is his full-time job at Firecrawl, and no separate marketing leader is listed.
About Firecrawl
Firecrawl is a web data API that lets AI agents search, scrape and read the web. It raised a $75M Series B led by Smash Capital in September 2026, with Altos, Nexus and Y Combinator, 13 months after a $14.5M Series A. The company says 1.5 million developers and 150,000 companies use it.
Why Eric is on the cover
Firecrawl sells to developers building AI agents, and it grew mostly through them. Eric co-founded the company and runs that growth, and it took 13 months to get from a Series A to a $75M Series B.
Questions about Eric and Firecrawl
- What does Eric Ciarla do at Firecrawl?
- Eric Ciarla is a co-founder and the Chief Growth Officer of Firecrawl.
- What does Firecrawl do?
- Firecrawl is a web data API that lets AI agents search, scrape and read the web.
- How much has Firecrawl raised?
- Firecrawl raised a $75M Series B led by Smash Capital in September 2026.

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