Who owns Garena?
Garena is owned by Sea (Singapore, NYSE: SE).[1]
Evidence: Sea Limited Annual Report on Form 20-F filed 2026-04-17, SEC EDGAR, 17 April 2026. Verified from filings; last checked .
Key facts
- Current owner
- Sea Limited verified
- Owner HQ
- 🇸🇬 Singapore, Singapore
- Origin
- 🇸🇬 Singapore
- Founded
- 2009
- Category
- Internet & digital › Platforms & devices › Games & gaming platforms
- Parent ticker
- NYSE: SE
- Last verified
- · 1 sources
About Garena
Garena is the business Sea started with in 2009 and is a global online games developer and publisher. Its catalogue is a mixture of what it owns and what it does not: Sea describes it as games the company develops, curates, licenses and localises for each market, so a title carrying the Garena name in Southeast Asia may belong to another studio elsewhere. It also runs esports competitions in its markets to hold players inside that ecosystem.
What Sea's annual report says about Garena
Sentences about Garena from Sea's latest annual filing[1], copied word for word.
History and Development of the Company On May 8, 2009, we incorporated Garena Interactive Holding Limited, our holding company, as a limited liability company in the Cayman Islands.
We began our digital entertainment business, Garena, at our inception in 2009, and have since expanded our game operations globally with the launch of our self-developed game, Free Fire.
Garena provides users with access to popular and engaging mobile and PC online games that we develop, curate, license and localize for each market.
How often Sea names Garena in its annual report
A plain count of the times the name appears in the text of each annual report, not counting the start of a sentence. A brand that an owner writes about more is usually one it treats as central. The brand is named more often than it was three years earlier.
Ownership timeline of Garena
Where Garena sits in Sea
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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Other brands owned by Sea
Sea controls 4 brands on Brandtree, 4 of them in internet & digital.
Also in internet & digital
Other brands in games & gaming platforms, and who owns them
The 17 brands in games & gaming platforms on Brandtree belong to 14 owners. The largest is Microsoft, with 3.
| Brand | Owner | Owner based in |
|---|---|---|
| Activision Blizzard | Microsoft | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Supersonic from Unity | Unity | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Epic Games Store | Epic Games | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Hago | JOYY | 🇸🇬 Singapore |
| GameMaker | Kunlun Tech | 🇨🇳 China |
| Nintendo Switch | Nintendo | 🇯🇵 Japan |
| Roblox | Roblox | 🇺🇸 United States |
| PlayStation | Sony | 🇯🇵 Japan |
About the owner: Sea
Sea is a publicly listed company headquartered in Singapore, Singapore, founded in 2009. Brandtree records 4 brands under its control, and it is listed as NYSE: SE.
Sea Limited is a technology company incorporated in the Cayman Islands on 8 May 2009 and run from Singapore, where its principal executive offices are at 1 Fusionopolis Place. It operates three businesses in Southeast Asia, Taiwan and Latin America: the e-commerce platform Shopee, the digital financial services business Monee, and the games developer and publisher Garena, which it began at its own inception in 2009. It conducts much of its business through subsidiaries and variable interest entities, and its American depositary shares trade on the New York Stock Exchange.
🇸🇬 Garena and other Singaporean brands
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 36 brands that began in Singapore. 10 of them (28%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country; Garena is not one of them.
Frequently asked questions
Who is the parent company of Garena?
The parent company of Garena is Sea, a publicly listed company headquartered in Singapore.
Is Garena Singaporean?
Yes. Garena originated in Singapore in 2009 and its owner, Sea, is also headquartered in Singapore.
Is Garena still owned by Sea?
Yes. As of 10 October 2026, Garena is still owned by Sea. The ownership record was last checked against primary sources on that date.
Sources (1) & corrections
Last verified . Every ownership fact above is backed by one of these primary documents. Numbers in brackets in the text refer to this list.
- [1] Sea Limited Annual Report on Form 20-F filed 2026-04-17 — SEC EDGAR, SEC Form 20-F, published 17 April 2026; retrieved 24 September 2026.
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