Stake’s $31M Series B Fuels Aggressive Push into AI and Tokenization Frontiers
Another crypto player just cashed a massive check—and they're not buying more office snacks.
Stake, the digital asset platform, just locked down a $31 million Series B funding round. Forget incremental growth; the capital injection signals a full-throttle pivot into two of tech's hottest buzzword battlegrounds: artificial intelligence and asset tokenization.
The AI Gambit: Smarter Money
Stake's move into AI isn't about creating chatbots. It's about deploying algorithms to predict market liquidity, automate complex DeFi strategies, and identify tokenization opportunities before they hit the mainstream radar. Think quantitative hedge fund, but baked directly into the platform's infrastructure.
The Tokenization Play: Everything is an Asset
The other half of the war chest targets tokenization—the process of converting real-world assets (think real estate, art, corporate debt) into digital tokens on a blockchain. Stake aims to build the rails that make buying a fraction of a skyscraper as easy as swapping a meme coin. It's a bid to move crypto from speculative trading into the multi-trillion-dollar world of traditional finance.
Why This Matters Now
The funding arrives as institutional interest pivots from pure cryptocurrency speculation to blockchain's utility in reshaping legacy systems. Tokenization, long hailed as 'the next big thing,' is finally seeing real-world pipelines emerge. By coupling it with AI, Stake bets it can outpace giants from both fintech and Wall Street.
A cynical observer might note that $31 million is just the ante to sit at this high-stakes table—a rounding error for the traditional finance titans they're aiming to disrupt. But in crypto, speed and agility often outmuscle sheer capital. Stake just got a lot faster.
The closer? The race to digitize the global economy's assets is on. Stake just upgraded its engine. Whether that leads to a victory lap or a costly pit stop depends on execution. After all, in both crypto and traditional finance, the easiest way to make a small fortune is to start with a large one and pursue a hot new trend.
Stake continues to expand in KSA
Founded in the UAE in 2021 and expanded to Saudi Arabia in 2024, Stake has a community spanning over 2 million users from more than 211 nationalities and has enabled over 250,000 investments across 500-plus properties and four private real estate funds, paying out over $15 million in rental income and surpassing $381 million in real estate transactions to date.
“Saudi Arabia is a strategic growth market for us, and this round allows us to deepen our investment in the Kingdom by expanding our local capabilities and scaling our offering to meet growing demand from both regional and international investors,” said Manar Mahmassani, co-founder and co-CEO of Stake.
Since it entered the Saudi market, Stake has closed three real estate funds, attracting 6,930 international investors and channeling more than $110 million into the local real estate sector.
Recently, Investcorp Saudi Arabia Financial Investments Company (together with its affiliates, “Investcorp”), a leading global alternative investment manager, expanded its digital platform offering through a distribution agreement with Stake.
The partnership provides investors with access to select international real estate opportunities via the Stake digital application, combining Investcorp’s institutional‑grade investment expertise and rigorous due diligence with Stake’s world-class technology‑enabled user experience.
The first US‑based offering launched under the agreement attracted strong investor demand, with participation from thousands of investors. A second tranche is now live on the Stake platform.
Stake enters tokenization realm
With a goal of making Stake the go to platform for real estate investing, it has now entered the tokenization phase.
Ricardo Brizido, Co-Founder and CPTO, discussed their tokenization plans during the Stake Summit in Dubai, noting that traditionally, real estate investors faced three major blockers that included high minimum investments, lack of liquidity, and complex ownership structures. He stated, “Tokenization solves all three.”
Stake through tokenization will enable users to invest with smaller amounts, own verifiable digital assets on the blockchain and eventually trade their share through an internal marketplace, while maintaining the same level of security trusted by global banks.
He explained “Every token comes with official ownership documents issued by the Dubai Land Department. Every transaction is recorded on the blockchain. And we’re operating under VARA regulation to ensure the highest standards of compliance and investor protection. The tokenization pilot launches first for UAE-based users. Then we scale globally.”
Rami Tabbara explained to Cryptopolitan, “With today’s investment of $31 million, we will use it to boost our AI and tokenization initiatives, and develop new products to include commercial and retail properties. Stake will also be participating in Saudi Arabia’s nation wide property tokenization platform and will be joining the Proptech tokenization sandbox.”
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