Murat Bicer is a Turkish-born venture capital investor at CRV who has made the Forbes Midas List five times by backing breakout enterprise software companies like Datadog and Iterable before they became widely recognized winners. He focuses on the earliest stages of company building and champions Boston and New York as strong alternatives to the Bay Area for building category-defining B2B software companies.

• Enthusiasm for cutting-edge artificial intelligence, specifically focusing on complex infrastructure and embodied intelligence. He highlights advancements in difficult technical areas, such as SkildAI tackling embodied intelligence and VoyageAI becoming a market leader in Retrieval-Augmented Generation.
• Consistent support for developer tools, cybersecurity, and data infrastructure startups. He frequently welcomes companies solving backend complexity to his portfolio, such as the SecretOps platform Doppler, the multimodal AI database LanceDB, and Impart Security.
• Investment focus on B2B SaaS, particularly in the e-commerce, logistics, and marketing automation sectors. He has repeatedly championed companies like Loop, which handles returns, and Iterable, a marketing platform, celebrating their milestones and board appointments.
• Emphasis on the collaborative nature of the firm and strong support for internal partners. He regularly posts public congratulations to his colleagues at CRV for their promotions, investments, or successful exits, signaling that he values a team-oriented culture alongside founder success.