Shopee 的母公司为东南亚大型互联网企业 Sea (原名 Garena),该企业创立于 2009 年,于 2016 年获得马来西亚国库控股公司领投,腾讯追投(腾讯几年前领投了 A 轮)
亿美金 D 轮融资。除了电商业务和主营的游戏业务外,Sea 还拥有类似阿里支付宝的支付业务 Airpay 以及类似微信的社交业务 Beetalk,从业务上看类似“东南亚版”的腾讯。
Shopee's parent company is Sea (formerly known as Garena), a large Internet company in Southeast Asia. The company was founded in 2009 and received a US$100 million Series D financing in 2016, led by Malaysia's Khazanah Nasional Berhad and followed by Tencent (Tencent led the Series A a few years ago). In addition to e-commerce and its main gaming business, Sea also has Airpay, a payment business similar to Alipay, and Beetalk, a social business similar to WeChat. From a business perspective, it is similar to the "Southeast Asian version" of Tencent.