Monark Markets Raises $8.1 Million to Scale Retail Access to Private Markets

New updates have been reported about Monark Markets.

Monark Markets has secured $8.1 million in strategic financing to accelerate its role as core infrastructure for retail access to private markets, with the round led by F-Prime and joined by The Treasury, Commerce Ventures, Grit Capital Partners, and BBAE Holdings. The New York-based fintech plans to use the capital to deepen distribution partnerships with brokerage and wealth platforms and to widen its product and asset-class coverage across private investments.

Monark’s API-first infrastructure already powers major fintech platforms, embedding private-market offerings directly into existing brokerage accounts serving more than 30 million retail investors with about $450 billion in captive assets. The company currently enables access to pre-IPO companies and 40 Act-registered evergreen funds and intends to expand into additional categories such as fractional real estate and secondary trading of private securities.

Management expects retail allocations to private markets to rise toward 15–20% over the next decade, which CEO Ben Haber believes will unlock trillions of dollars in new capital flows and increase demand for specialized investment rails and liquidity solutions. Monark’s platform is designed to close a key gap for brokerage and wealth firms that lack end-to-end capabilities for alternative assets, including deal sourcing, subscription processing, custody, reporting, and secondary liquidity, all within their native user experience.

By embedding private-market access directly into partner platforms, Monark aims to offer scalable, lower-cost channels for issuers to tap into the roughly $27 trillion of private wealth held by mass-affluent and affluent U.S. investors. Behind its APIs, Monark works with distribution partners to curate private investment opportunities, perform due diligence, and negotiate distribution economics, with thematic focus areas that include U.S. reindustrialization, next-generation defense, artificial intelligence, blockchain, and space-related ventures.

The new funding is expected to support further integrations with additional brokerages and wealth managers, positioning Monark as a standard provider of “Alts-as-a-Service” infrastructure across the retail advisory ecosystem. As alternative assets have expanded from approximately $5 trillion in 2011 to nearly $16 trillion today, investors such as F-Prime view Monark as a key enabler of the next phase of retail participation, while its broker-dealer subsidiary, MMM Securities LLC, underpins the model with regulatory and compliance capabilities required for private placements and alternative trading.