Stake is an Australian - Curaçaoan online casino . It is operated by Medium Rare NV, a company incorporated in Curaçao where it holds an online casino licence. [2] [3] It is a global company with offices in Serbia , Australia, Cyprus and staff globally. [4] History In 2016, Ed Craven and Bijan Tehrani established Easygo, a company which developed games for online casinos. [2] The two helped create Stake, which was founded in 2017. [2] In December 2021, Stake launched in the United Kingdom in partnership with TGP Europe . [5] On August 1, 2022, Stake.us was opened, to offer service to players in the United States . [6] In June 2023, a federal judge in Manhattan dismissed a $580 million lawsuit against Stake due to jurisdictional issues. The plaintiff, Christopher Freeman, was an early associate of Craven and Tehrani, alleged he had been shut out of the business and mislead using ...