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Dubai-based digital real estate investment platform Stake has raised $31 million (Dh113.77 million) in an oversubscribed Series B round led by Emirates NBD, with Mubadala Investment Company, Property Finder and Ellington Properties also taking stakes, according to a
Khaleej Times report published Feb. 17, 2026. A separate Refinitiv/Zawya item carried on a Reuters feed also reported the $31 million raise and described Stake as a digital real estate platform.
Emirates NBD said it invested via its Innovation Fund, while the Khaleej Times article listed additional participants including MEVP, STV NICE, Wa’ed Ventures and GFH Partners; Stake said total funding to date reached $58 million (Dh213 million). Stake said it is advancing “regulated tokenisation” in collaboration with Property Finder and has received in-principle approval from Dubai’s Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority (VARA).
The company positions itself as a regulated real-estate investing platform: Stake Properties Limited states it is authorised and regulated by the Dubai Financial Services Authority (DFSA) to operate a property investment crowdfunding platform in DIFC (DFSA reference F005879). The DFSA public register lists Stake Properties Limited with the same DFSA reference and a licence date of 01-Nov-2020. VARA, for its part, describes itself as the authority regulating virtual asset activities in and from Dubai (excluding DIFC) and says firms have a legal obligation to be licensed prior to commencing virtual asset activities.
The round comes amid active tokenisation work in Dubai’s real-estate ecosystem: Dubai Land Department announced Phase II of its real estate tokenisation project on Feb. 9, 2026, stating that secondary-market resale would be enabled from Feb. 20, 2026. In parallel, Stake has expanded across jurisdictions; the Khaleej Times report said the company entered Saudi Arabia in 2024 and has since closed three real estate funds there, while Stake’s own disclosures describe a Saudi entity regulated under the Capital Market Authority’s FinTech Lab framework.
For market participants, the funding round is most directly relevant to platforms and investors using regulated channels for fractional real-estate exposure, and to institutions backing that distribution (including banks and sovereign-related investors named in the round). For regulators and infrastructure providers, the operational implication is that Stake is tying its real-estate investing model to “regulated tokenisation” work and a VARA in-principle approval status, alongside an existing DFSA-regulated crowdfunding setup in DIFC—two supervisory touchpoints that shape what activities can be offered, where, and under which licensing perimeter.
