Monarx
Salt Lake City, US · Founded 2017 · Delaware corporation · 23 employees on LinkedIn · 5 known investors
Monarx offers an AI-based security platform that detects, removes, and blocks malware and other threats on servers, including obfuscated, cloaking, and in-memory attacks. It provides real-time in-application protection, a crowd-sourced honeynet, and a command center with APIs, offered as a white-labelable product for resale.
Also known as Monarx, Inc.
Founders & leadership
Board
Investors · 5
Reported raises · per SEC filings
Form D private placements$13.9M disclosed across 3 rounds · 2017–2025
▶$5MraisedJan 2026 · 11 investors · Other TechnologyRule 506(b)
- BEN DAHLDirector
- GAVIN CHRISTENSENDirector
- LUKE LANGFORDExecutive Officer, Director
- MATTHEW HOFFMANDirector
- CHRIS ROTHEDirector
- LOUIS BERYLDirector
- Offering amount
- $5.5M
- Amount sold
- $5M
- First sale
- Nov 2025
- Incorporated
- Corporation, Delaware
- Federal exemptions
- 06b
▶$5.6MraisedMar 2023 · 10 investors · Other TechnologyRule 506(b)
- Matthew HoffmanDirector
- Gavin ChristensenDirector
- Ben DahlDirector
- Jeremy WarrenExecutive Officer, Director
- Offering amount
- $5.7M
- Amount sold
- $5.6M
- First sale
- Feb 2023
- Incorporated
- Corporation, Delaware
- Federal exemptions
- 06b
▶$3.3MraisedMay 2017 · 6 investors · Other TechnologyRule 506(b)
- Jonathan W. GayExecutive Officer, Director
- Matthew HoffmanExecutive Officer, Director, Promoter
- Offering amount
- $3.4M
- Amount sold
- $3.3M
- First sale
- Apr 2017
- Incorporated
- Corporation, Delaware, 2017
- Federal exemptions
- 06b
Source: SEC EDGAR Form D. Amounts as filed; amended filings shown once at their latest values.
Company profile
researched Aug 2026Monarx is a Salt Lake City-based cybersecurity software company that provides website, web application and server security for Linux web hosting environments. Its platform combines threat detection that is designed to see through obfuscation techniques used to evade signature-based tools, automated threat removal, Threat Shield in-application (RASP-style) protection that monitors and blocks application behavior, server protection targeting hidden processes, cron jobs and in-memory or respawning threats, and a crowd-sourced Global Honeynet that aggregates data from Monarx-enabled servers in real time. A Command Center dashboard and Global APIs let hosting partners control, automate and launch security services across their fleets.
The software is delivered as a cloud-backed service with a lightweight on-server agent installed via a one-line RPM or Debian package, integrating with deployment automation tools, hosting control panels, containers and cloud environments, and hosting billing systems such as WHMCS. Servers or individual users can be configured in "Comprehensive Protection" or "Detect Only" mode. The company states that heavy processing runs in the Monarx Cloud to limit load on partner servers. A more recent addition is Dark Web Monitoring, which detects exposed credentials, emails and sensitive data through domain- and email-based monitoring, provides exposure alerts with severity ratings and remediation guidance, offers masked evidence visibility, and is white-labelable for resale by hosting partners.
Business model
Monarx sells to web hosting providers, which deploy the agent across their server fleets. Hosting partners can either automatically protect customer websites or use detected malicious activity as targeted leads to upsell paid protection to site owners, allowing the product to be positioned either as infrastructure protection or as a revenue-generating add-on. Add-on products such as Dark Web Monitoring are offered white-labeled with a suggested retail price of $1.99-$9.99 per unit and a revenue share with the partner.
Software sold to hosting providers, with white-labeled end-customer products resold at a suggested retail price of $1.99-$9.99 under a revenue-share arrangement; a self-service billing portal supports account-based purchasing in USD and EUR.
Traction
Cited hosting partners include Hostinger, InMotion Hosting and Axarnet (Your.Online), along with published testimonials from ResellerClub, Convesio, cloudabove, MilesWeb, XXL Hosting, Libyan Spider, hostingsolutions, Big Wet Fish Hosting and RKWO. The company said in March 2023 that it had continued to grow, and its Dark Web Monitoring service references a corpus of more than 800 billion compromised credentials.
Latest developments
In March 2023 Monarx announced a $6.1 million funding round led by Ben Dahl of Signal Peak Ventures, with participation from Kickstart Fund, Pelion Venture Partners and Crosscut Ventures, earmarked for partner growth. The company has since added a white-labelable Dark Web Monitoring product covering credential and sensitive-data exposure, alerting and remediation guidance.
▸Full profile — market position, technology, go-to-market, geography, history
Market position
Positions itself as a higher-detection, lower-false-positive and lower-resource alternative to signature-based malware scanners and traditional web application firewalls in the Linux web hosting market; the company claims 35% more malware blocked, 69 times fewer false positives and 17 times less resource intensity than its closest competitor.
Signature-less behavioral analysis rather than signature matching, automated and reportedly safe removal with rare false positives, in-application runtime protection, OS-level remediation of respawning and in-memory threats, cloud-side processing to minimize server load, and a business model that lets hosts monetize detected infections as upsell leads.
Technology
Proprietary, signature-less AI-powered detection that evaluates what a file does rather than what it looks like, allowing it to handle obfuscated code and new or unusual malware variants. Components include automated removal the company describes as 99.99% effective with a low false-positive rate, Threat Shield runtime application self-protection that provides context-aware prevention as an alternative to traditional web application firewalls, OS-level server protection against cloaking, in-memory and respawning threats, and a global honeynet/honeypot for shared threat intelligence. Processing is centralized in the Monarx Cloud, with an on-server agent optimized for CPU, memory, I/O and latency and installable on most Linux distributions, containers and cloud environments.
Go-to-market
Partner-led distribution through hosting providers, supported by a free evaluation, one-line agent installation, control panel plugin UI, documented APIs for integration, and a WHMCS upsell module that lets partners launch a resale program. Proceeds from the 2023 financing were designated to further fuel partner growth.
Web hosting providers and managed hosting companies running Linux shared, cloud and container environments, including named partners such as Hostinger, InMotion Hosting, Axarnet (Your.Online), ResellerClub, Convesio, cloudabove, hostingsolutions, MilesWeb, Big Wet Fish Hosting, XXL Hosting, Libyan Spider and RKWO.
Geography
Headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah, with hosting partners across multiple regions including the United States, Europe, India and North Africa; the billing portal supports multiple languages and USD and EUR currencies.
History
Monarx is led by CEO Jeremy Warren and operates from Salt Lake City, Utah. In March 2023 it raised $6.1 million led by Signal Peak Ventures, adding Ben Dahl to the company; existing product lines for hosting security have since been extended with dark web monitoring.
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Key figures
latest reportedCompany-reported or press-reported figures, each dated to when it was claimed — not independently audited.
Founder mafia
2 people who came through Monarx went on to found or lead other companies.
Competitors · 1
by search overlapCompanies competing with Monarx for the same Google search keywords, organic and paid, via search-intersection analysis.
Timeline · 3
launches, deals, and filingsMonarx offers a white-labelable Dark Web Monitoring product for hosting partners covering exposed credential, email and sensitive-data detection, domain- and email-based monitoring, severity-rated exposure alerts with remediation guidance, and masked evidence visibility, with a suggested retail price of $1.99-$9.99 and revenue share.
Monarx raised $6.1 million in a round led by Ben Dahl of Signal Peak Ventures, with participation from Kickstart Fund, Pelion Venture Partners and Crosscut Ventures. The company said the funds would be used to further fuel partner growth.
$6.1M source ↗
CEO Jeremy Warren stated that Ben Dahl was joining the team alongside the Signal Peak Ventures-led round.
Dated company events from announcements, filings, and press; legal rows summarize public dockets and regulator releases.
Legal entities · 1
corporate structureIn the news
▸Research sources · 8
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Frequently asked questions
- What does Monarx do?
- Monarx sells AI-powered malware detection, removal and in-application protection software to Linux web hosting providers.
- Who are Monarx's investors?
- Monarx's investors include Crosscut Ventures, Kickstart, Pelion Venture Partners, Pelion Ventures, Signal Peak Ventures.
- How much funding has Monarx raised?
- Monarx has disclosed $13.9M raised across 3 rounds.
- Where is Monarx headquartered?
- Monarx is headquartered in Salt Lake City, US.