There is a quiet power in infrastructure. Nobody throws a parade for plumbing, but everyone panics when the pipes burst. In private markets, the pipes have been rusted for decades. Access gated. Processes manual. Transparency optional. Then Monark Markets walks in and says let us lay down the rails so capital can actually move.
Monark Markets just secured $8.1M in strategic funding to build what they call standard rails for private markets. Led by F Prime, with The Treasury, Commerce Ventures, Grit Capital Partners, and BBAE Holdings stepping in with conviction. David Jegen of F Prime joins the Board of Directors, which tells you this is not tourist capital. This is sleeves rolled up, blueprint on the table capital.
Congratulations to Ben Haber, CEO and Co Founder, and Paul Davis, CPO and Co Founder. Two operators who looked at pre IPO equity, private credit, and real estate and decided the problem was not demand. It was distribution. It was infrastructure. It was the friction between ambition and allocation.
Monark Markets is positioning itself as the infrastructure layer for private markets. Not the shiny asset. Not the loud marketplace. The rails. The embedded pipes. The API driven engine that allows brokerages, advisory platforms, and clearing firms to offer alternative investments inside the environments investors already trust. If public markets had highways and private markets had dirt roads, Monark is pouring concrete at scale.
And let us be clear, this is a B2B play with teeth. Integrations with major retail brokerage and wealth platforms are not marketing copy. They are distribution leverage. When your product lives inside the workflow of a brokerage or advisory platform, you are no longer asking for attention. You are part of the operating system.
There is a lesson here for founders. Infrastructure wins when it removes friction so cleanly that users forget the friction ever existed. Ben Haber and Paul Davis did not chase headlines about access to alternatives. They built the compliance spine, the automation muscle, the transparency layer. With MMM Securities LLC in the mix and a leadership bench that includes roles dedicated to compliance, revenue, and ATS engineering, this is architecture, not improvisation.
F Prime and the rest of the syndicate did not fund a trend. They funded a toll road. Private markets are massive, but distribution has been fragmented and uneven. Standard rails mean repeatable access. Repeatable access means scale. Scale means private markets stop feeling private.
For brokerages, advisory firms, and clearing platforms looking to expand into alternatives without building the entire stack from scratch, Monark Markets is offering something simple and powerful. Plug in. Power up. Give clients access to pre IPO equity, private credit, and real estate without reinventing your core.
Infrastructure is rarely glamorous. But when the rails are finally laid, the trains move faster than anyone expected. And the people who understood the map early tend to arrive first.
