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 42 out of 1000 as of July 2026, ranking #25,219 (top 5%) among 531,432 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 12,809 posts and has been mentioned by 13 accounts a total of 33 times. Eric Simons has 28,207 followers as of July 2026 on the platform.
Eric Simons's portfolio includes Cline.
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