Stake, Dubai's Real Estate Platform Raises $31M for Expansion : TechMoran

Stake, a Dubai-based digital real estate investment platform, has raised $31 million in an oversubscribed Series B round led by Emirates NBD as it seeks to scale regulated cross-border property investment offerings. The funding round included participation from Mubadala Investment Company’s MENA Venture Capital Fund, Middle East Venture Partners (MEVP), Property Finder, STV NICE, Wa’ed Ventures, GFH Partners and Ellington Properties, bringing Stake’s total capital raised to $58 million.

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“Real estate remains a foundational component of global investment portfolios, yet there is an opportunity to improve how many investors access and gain transparency into these assets,” said Neeraj Makin, Group Head of Strategy, Analytics and Venture Capital at Emirates NBD.

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Stake operates a regulated platform that enables fractional ownership of real estate across multiple markets, and it says it is building the infrastructure to connect global capital to income-generating property assets via compliant digital channels. The company cites rapid recent growth: a compound annual growth rate of over 130% in gross merchandise value and more than 100% revenue CAGR over the past three years. Stake’s platform now serves more than 2 million users across 181 countries.

• Lead investor: Emirates NBD.
• Other participants: Mubadala Investment Company’s MENA Venture Capital Fund, MEVP, Property Finder, STV NICE, Wa’ed Ventures, GFH Partners, Ellington Properties.
• Total raised after the round: $58 million.

Saudi Arabia has emerged as Stake’s key growth market. In the fourth quarter of 2024, Stake became the first Capital Market Authority (CMA)-regulated platform to open Saudi Arabia’s property market to international investors. Since that market entry, the company has closed three real estate funds in the Kingdom, attracting nearly 7,000 international investors and channeling more than 416 million riyals (about $111 million) into Saudi real estate.

Beyond the Gulf, Stake has broadened its footprint: in October 2025 the company entered the U.S. industrial real estate market, targeting income-generating assets as part of a wider cross-border strategy. The firm has also launched StakeOne, a product intended to digitise full property ownership and post-sale asset management, offering access to Dubai properties developed by companies such as Emaar, Ellington Properties and Dubai Holding.

Outlook

Stake plans to use the new capital to scale its regulated cross-border offerings and build further infrastructure connecting global investors to income-generating property assets. As part of its long-term strategy, the company is pursuing regulated tokenisation of real estate assets in collaboration with Property Finder and has received in-principle approval from Dubai’s Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority (VARA) for the initiative. That project aims to enable fractional, tradeable exposure to property assets through compliant digital channels.