UAE-Based Stake Partners With Investcorp Saudi To Bring Institutional Real Estate Offerings To Individual Investors
Through the partnership, Stake, which was founded by Rami Tabbara, Manar Mahmassani, and Ricardo Brizido, will unlock institutional investment opportunities for individuals.
Dubai-based digital real estate investment platform Stake has signed a distribution agreement with Investcorp Saudi Arabia Financial Investments Company, giving investors access to select international real estate opportunities through the former's mobile application.
Founded by Rami Tabbara, Manar Mahmassani, and Ricardo Brizido in the UAE in 2021, Stake operates a digital real estate investment platform that enables individuals to invest in fractional property ownership and curated real estate funds through a regulated mobile application. From the outset, the company has focused on lowering barriers to entry in real estate by combining technology with regulated investment structures.
That approach underpins Stake’s recent partnership with Investcorp Saudi Arabia Financial Investments Company, which brings Investcorp-backed real estate offerings onto Stake’s platform. The agreement combines Investcorp’s institutional investment expertise and due diligence with Stake’s technology-enabled user experience, allowing individual investors to access opportunities that have traditionally been limited to institutional capital, while remaining within the regulatory framework of the Capital Market Authority (CMA) of Saudi Arabia. As such, the partnership introduces a new stream of international opportunities shaped by institutional asset management standards.
In an interview with Inc. Arabia, Stake’s co-founders explained how these offerings differ from Stake’s pre-existing products. “Investcorp-backed opportunities are usually positioned as select international real estate opportunities and available only to institutional players and major high-net-worth individuals (HNWs)," they explained. "By partnering with Stake, listed opportunities are now accessible in a more seamless way to anyone anywhere around the world, starting at AED/SAR 500 (meaning investment opportunities that were once reserved for institutions are now accessible to the masses)."
The offering, while new, aligns with Stake’s focus on simplifying access to real estate investment. Speaking about how the company was first conceived, the co-founders said, “In 2021, Stake entered the UAE market with a simple but powerful idea: real estate ownership shouldn’t be reserved for a few, nor should it require deep pockets, endless paperwork, or being physically present in Dubai. We launched an app, regulated by the Dubai Financial Services Authority (DFSA), that enabled anyone, from anywhere in the world, to invest in fractions of property directly through an app.”
That initial traction paved the way for geographic expansion and new product structures. “As demand grew, so did the vision," the co-founders said. "In the fourth quarter (Q4) of 2024, Stake expanded into Saudi Arabia, becoming the first Capital Market Authority (CMA) regulated app to open the Kingdom’s real estate market to global investors through curated funds. For the first time, international capital could flow seamlessly into Saudi property with full regulatory confidence. To date, we have fully subscribed three real estate funds in Saudi Arabia."
The Saudi launch coincided with a period of accelerated platform activity across markets. “By Q4 2025, this momentum created something much bigger than a product," the co-founders said. "Stake surpassed AED1.4 billion (US$380 million) in real estate transactions, paid out over AED59.5 million ($16.20 billion) in rental income, and built a 2 million+ global investment community from 211+ nationalities across 181+ countries. On the fractional side, we now manage more than 500 properties, giving everyday investors the ability to build real estate portfolios and passive income.”
According to the co-founders, the partnership with Investcorp operates within Stake’s broader platform model. “The offerings under the partnership are distributed within the CMA regulatory framework in Saudi Arabia," they pointed out. "The intent is to broaden access so that individual investors can participate in opportunities historically reserved for institutions but always subject to the eligibility and onboarding requirements of the relevant CMA regulatory framework. This is an expansion of Investcorp’s digital strategy and a way to extend digital reach via a third-party fintech platform. In other words: Stake continues to digitize access experience and adds an additional lane of fund manager-led institutional-quality international real estate distributed on-platform.”
Stake’s co-founders also noted that the collaboration reflects a strategic alignment for both companies, rather than a transactional arrangement. For Stake, for instance, the partnership enhances its ability to offer institutional-grade investment opportunities that have traditionally been limited to large asset managers. The agreement provides it “access to institutional-grade sourcing, due diligence, and investment structuring for select international opportunities, strengthening the platform’s ability to offer products that were historically institution-only from one of the largest alternative asset managers in the world.” The partnership also benefits Investcorp by extending its reach to individual investors through a digital-first channel, using Stake’s “world-class, technology-enabled user experience and an established digital distribution channel.” This, the co-founders noted, "helps Investcorp broaden access to individual investors via digital innovation, aligned with its stated digital platform strategy.”
Early investor response has already begun to shape how the partnership is rolling out, starting with its first US-focused offering. The initial deal marked Stake’s entry into the US market under the agreement, centering on industrial real estate assets aligned with current policy priorities and attracting broad participation from retail investors. “The first US-based offering under the agreement saw strong demand with participation from thousands of investors, and a second tranche is now live on Stake and almost fully subscribed," the co-founders said. "The offering focuses on the US-industrial asset class (an agenda that the US administration is pushing towards). The fund comprises 27 individual properties based in Baltimore and Minneapolis with multi-year rental contracts in place with some of the world’s largest Fortune 500 companies (usually use those warehouses as logistics, supply chain, light manufacturing, etc.). Investors make steady monthly returns based on their investment amount, subject to the performance of the properties.”
Pictured in the lead image are Stake co-founders (from left to right) Rami Tabbara, Ricardo Brizido, and Manar Mahmassani. Image courtesy Stake.
