“Can a fractional real estate investment platform build the cross-border payment and compliance infrastructure needed to make property investment as accessible as stock trading for retail investors globally?”
Stake launched in 2016 as an Australian retail brokerage giving everyday investors access to US equities via DriveWealth clearing. The company then built a parallel MENA-focused brand — also called Stake — offering fractional real estate investment in Dubai starting in 2020, regulated separately by the DFSA and Saudi CMA. By 2024–2026, the MENA real estate platform raised $45M+ and expanded into Saudi Arabia, Abu Dhabi, and the US, evolving from a single-market proptech into a cross-border fractional real estate platform with embedded payments infrastructure (Checkout.com Pay to Card) to handle multi-currency investor payouts.
Stake discloses DriveWealth as its banking provider, according to the Embedded Finance Index 2026.
Stake does not disclose a bank charter of its own; its banking services are provided through DriveWealth.
Stake processes payments through Checkout.com.
Stake uses Veriff for KYC and identity verification.
The Embedded Finance Index 2026 maps 3 layers in Stake's stack: Payments / PSP (Checkout.com); Banking / BaaS (DriveWealth); KYC (Veriff).
Stake was founded by Matthew Leibowitz and Dan Silver and is founded in 2016, headquartered in Sydney, Australia (AU/NZ platform); Dubai, UAE (MENA real estate platform).
Stake has raised $58M in total (latest round: Series B, 2026).
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