Capital Connect

Monark CEO Ben Haber sits down with Paul Walker, Industry Partner at Motive Partners and former Co-Head of Technology at Goldman Sachs, to unpack the friction points still holding back private markets' operating models. Paul draws on decades of experience building technology at the highest levels of finance to explain what it will actually take to modernize the industry's infrastructure. I...

Monark CEO Ben Haber sits down with Shriram Bhashyam, COO of Sydecar, to explore how technology is transforming the operational backbone of private market investing. Shriram shares insights from his deep background in the secondary ecosystem including his time as a cofounder of EquityZen to explain why the next phase of private capital depends on better infrastructure. In this episode:The Evolutio...

Monark CEO Ben Haber sits down with Jacob Miller, co-founder of Opto Investments, to discuss the evolving landscape of private market access for the wealth community. Jacob explains how Opto is building bespoke private market programs for RIAs and family offices, moving beyond just "brand name" managers to find true outperformance. In this episode:The Drawdown Advantage: Why Opto prefers...

Monark CEO Ben Haber sits down with Samir Vasavada, co-founder and CEO of Vise, to discuss how AI is shifting the advisor's role. Samir shares a provocative vision: as technology handles the complex "IQ" tasks of portfolio management, the most successful advisors will be those with high "EQ" who can manage deeply personal client relationships. In this episode: ► The Shift i...

In the second episode of Capital Connect, Monark Markets co-founder and CEO Ben Haber sits down with Viram Shah, Co-Founder & CEO of Vested Finance, the platform managing over $1 billion in assets and giving Indian investors structured access to U.S. and global markets. Today, only 1 to 2% of Indian investors allocate capital internationally. Vested is closing that gap by combining cross-borde...

For the inaugural episode of Capital Connect, Ben Haber is joined by Ryan Eisenman, Co-Founder & CEO of Arch — the digital administration platform now powering over $450B in private market assets across 560 leading allocators, including Fortune 100 institutions, four of the top-20 banks, and eight of the top-20 accounting firms. Arch has raised more than $75M from Oak HC/FT, Menlo Ventures, Cr...