Stake provenance: who runs it?
✓ established Stake is a recognised, long-running operator group, not a flagged clone or a re-skin of a known-bad brand. The company behind it is publicly documented, which is exactly why its provenance is straightforward to re-check before you deposit.
Stake is large enough that its provenance is unusually well-documented, which is what makes it a useful baseline. The operating company, the parent group and the founders are all on the public record, and the licence is one you can open on a regulator's register in another tab. What that documentation doesn't settle is which site you've actually landed on — a recognisable name invites copycat domains — so confirming the URL is the step that's left to you. The provenance of the genuine brand itself is established, not pending.
- Operating entity
- Medium Rare N.V. (Curaçao, reg. 145353)
- Operator group
- Easygo Entertainment (Ed Craven & Bijan Tehrani)
- Sister sites
- Primedice, Stake.us (separate entity — Sweepsteaks Ltd)
- Licence
- Curaçao OGL/2024/1451/0918 (+ UK via TGP Europe)
- Status
- verified · checked 2026-06-27
What the public record shows
The operating entity behind the real-money brand is Medium Rare N.V., a Curaçao company (registration 145353) named in the site's own terms and footer. That company sits under Easygo Entertainment, the group publicly associated with founders Ed Craven and Bijan Tehrani. The ownership chain is on the record rather than hidden behind a shell, which is the opposite of the pattern a re-skin relies on.
The same group runs more than one brand, and knowing the map matters because it explains overlaps you'll otherwise trip over while checking. Primedice is a sister dice brand under the same ownership. Stake.us is a separate proposition again: a social, sweepstakes-model site operated by a distinct legal entity, Sweepsteaks Ltd, under the same Easygo parent. So shared infrastructure or wording between those brands isn't a clone fingerprint at all; it's one documented group operating several products, which is a very different thing from one operator quietly cloning an unrelated brand.
On licensing, the real-money brand operates under a Curaçao licence (OGL/2024/1451/0918), with UK-facing market access historically routed through TGP Europe. The check that turns this from a claim into something you've verified is the register: a Curaçao licence seal should click through to a certificate whose listed domain matches the URL in your address bar. You can confirm that yourself on the national register at cert.cga.cw. If a seal doesn't resolve to a certificate, or the certificate names a domain other than the one you're on, that's the signal to slow down, regardless of how familiar the brand looks.
What we checked
Our "established" finding rests on the same provenance checks we apply to every operator, walked top to bottom:
- Footer operating company. The terms and footer name a real entity, Medium Rare N.V., with a registration number, rather than leaving the operating company blank or naming only the brand.
- Licence on the public register. The Curaçao licence is the kind you can look up on the regulator's own register, not a badge that only links back to the casino.
- Terms and lobby fingerprint. Stake runs its own platform and house-written terms rather than copying another brand's wording or lobby. Where it overlaps with Primedice or Stake.us, that traces to shared group ownership we can document, not to a disguised clone of an unrelated operator.
Put together, those line up with a recognised group rather than a flagged re-skin. As ever, "established" is a statement about provenance and track record, not an endorsement of any particular bonus, term or regional offering, and it doesn't override the need to confirm you're on the right domain for your region.
Stake is our top pick for a simple reason: its record is unusually easy to re-check. The operating company is named, the parent and its founders are public, and the licence is on a register you can open in another tab. You don't have to take our word for the provenance, which is the whole point.
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