68/100BSea company profile
- CEO
- Xiaodong Li
- Employees
- 102,700
- Headquarters
- 1 Fusionopolis Place, Singapore, CE 138522, SG
- Sector
- Consumer Cyclical
- Industry
- Specialty Retail
- IPO date
- 20 Oct 2017
- Stock exchange
- NYSE
- ISIN
- US81141R1005
Website:sea.com
About the company
Operating across Southeast Asia, Latin America, other parts of Asia, and various international markets, Sea Limited and its group of companies specialize in three core areas: digital entertainment, e-commerce, and digital financial services. Under its Garena brand, the company provides a comprehensive digital entertainment platform. This platform allows users to play a variety of online games on both mobile devices and personal computers, participate in eSports events, and access additional entertainment content. Key features include live-streamed gameplay, as well as social functionalities like user chat rooms and online forums. Furthermore, Sea Limited manages Shopee, a prominent e-commerce platform designed primarily for mobile users. Shopee functions as a marketplace, offering integrated payment solutions, robust logistics infrastructure, and a suite of services for its sellers. Its SeaMoney division delivers an array of digital financial services to both individual consumers and businesses. These services encompass offline and online mobile wallet facilities, payment processing, and various other financial products, such as credit, insurtech solutions, and digital banking. These offerings are brought to market through brands like ShopeePay, SPayLater, and SeaBank, among others. Notably, SeaMoney also handles the payment processing for the Shopee platform. Established in 2009, the firm initially operated as Garena Interactive Holding Limited before rebranding to Sea Limited in April 2017. Its global operations are directed from its headquarters in Singapore.
Employees
Sea had about 102,700 employees at the end of fiscal year 2025 (31 December 2025), by its annual report. That is 27.3% more than a year before.
Employees at each fiscal year end, as the company reports them in its annual report (10-K); revenue and net income per employee are the fiscal year's over that count.
Who owns Sea
Institutions such as funds, banks and insurers held 62.1% of Sea's shares on 30 June 2026, 842 of them reporting holdings to the SEC; the rest is held by individual investors and other shareholders.
Shares free to trade
Closely held shares belong to insiders, founders and owners of more than 5%, and seldom change hands. The free float is the rest: the shares anyone can buy and sell.
Common questions about Sea
Source: Financial Modeling Prep