Shopee’s parent company, Sea Group, was established in 2009 and is the first Southeast Asian Internet leader listed on the New York Stock Exchange (stock code: SE). Sea is named because the company is rooted in the Southeast Asian market with a population of more than 600 million. Sea not only represents the geographical market boundary, but also demonstrates the concept of “Connecting the Dots”, which perfectly explains Shopee’s humility, continuous exploration and embrace. The core values of change reflect the business philosophy of using the power of technology to improve the lives of local consumers and help the development of small and medium-sized enterprises. Sea’s subsidiaries include gaming platform Garena e-commerce platform Shopee and electronic financial business AirPay. Among them, Shopee is the leading e-commerce platform in Southeast Asia. In 2018, its GMV reached US$10.3 billion, a year-on-year increase of 149.9%.
In May 2009, SeaGroup launched the game company Garena, and its representative game “FreeFire” ranked fourth in the global game download rankings in 2018
In April 2014, SeaGroup Launched AirPay payment channel and electronic financial services.
In June 2015, SeaGroup launched the mobile e-commerce platform Shopee. According to authoritative data from the authoritative mobile data analysis platform APPAnnie, Shopee ranked first in the global C2C shopping APP downloads in 2018
< p>In January 2016, Shopee established a cross-border service office in Shenzhen to launch Shopee’s cross-border business. In September 2017, Shopee established a Shanghai office to provide better landing services for sellers in East China.