Eric Simons is a software entrepreneur who co-founded StackBlitz and serves as CEO of Bolt.new, an AI-powered full-stack web-development agent built on StackBlitz's browser-native WebContainers technology. Eric Simons's Twitter Score is 53 out of 1000 (a Good rating) as of October 2026, ranking #16,967 (top 5%) among 498,181 tracked accounts.
Eric Simons co-founded StackBlitz, the developer tooling company behind WebContainers, a WebAssembly-based runtime that executes Node.js natively inside a browser without a remote server. StackBlitz secured a seed round led by Greylock, with participation from GV, Tom Preston-Werner, and others, and later raised an $83.5 million Series B at a $700 million valuation, led by Emergence and GV, with Madrona, Mantis VC, and Conviction also participating. StackBlitz has also joined the Bytecode Alliance alongside organizations including Microsoft, Fastly, Google, Mozilla, and Amazon.
Eric Simons also co-founded Thinkster, an earlier code-education startup that was acquired by a private-equity firm in December 2018. His work across both ventures reflects a consistent focus on developer education and browser-based tooling. Eric Simons's account has published 13,087 posts and has been mentioned by 23 accounts a total of 52 times. Eric Simons has 28,787 followers as of October 2026 on the platform.
Eric Simons's portfolio includes Cline.
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