Murat Bicer is a General Partner at CRV (Charles River Ventures), one of Silicon Valley's oldest and most storied early-stage venture firms. Born in Turkey and educated at Middle East Technical University and Babson College, he has spent two decades hunting for the next breakout enterprise software company. His signal achievement: backing Datadog at the seed stage in 2011 - before cloud monitoring was a recognized category - and riding it to a $30B+ public company that burned under $25M to get there. A five-time Forbes Midas List honoree (ranked #24 in 2024), Bicer is known for investing in developer-first companies, his contrarian willingness to back pre-product teams, and a portfolio that spans Datadog, Signal Sciences (acquired by Fastly for $775M), Iterable, Voyage AI (acquired by MongoDB), LanceDB, and Gorgias.
Darwin Salazar is Head of Growth at Monad and the founder of The Cybersecurity Pulse (TCP), a weekly newsletter read by Fortune 500 CISOs, vendors, and investors. A practitioner-turned-product-leader, he has worked across cloud security, detection engineering, red teaming, and IoT security at Datadog, Accenture, Ford Motor Company, and Johnson & Johnson. With 20,000+ combined followers and 250,000+ newsletter visits, Darwin bridges the gap between hands-on security work and the business of cybersecurity - making complex industry shifts digestible for the people who build, buy, and fund security products.