Garena

(Oct 20): Singapore’s Sea plans has priced its initial public offering of nearly 59 million American depositary shares at US$15 each to raise US$884 million ($1.2 billion), according to a press statement by the company on Friday evening.

(Oct 12): Singapore’s Sea initially modelled itself on Chinese internet colossus Tencent Holdings. and is often called the Tencent of Southeast Asia. Now that Sea has filed for an initial public offering and given a peak at its financials, the resembla

HONG KONG (Sept 25): Listed life can be rough. Sea, a Southeast Asian startup formerly known as Garena, has filed for a US initial public offering of up to US$1 billion ($1.35 billion). But larger deep-pocketed rivals are ramping up competition. An IPO at

SINGAPORE (Sept 23): Sea, the internet company formerly known as Garena, is readying itself for an initial public offering (IPO) in the US.

SINGAPORE (July 7): Every year in mid-June, a who’s who of the electronic entertainment and video game industry, from makers of consoles to game developers, descend on Los Angeles, the entertainment capital of the world and home to Hollywood, for E3, th

SINGAPORE (May 24): Sea, Southeast Asia’s most valuable startup, has filed confidentially for a potential US initial public offering that could raise about US$1 billion ($1.4 billion), according to people with knowledge of the matter.

(May 8): Garena has rebranded as Sea after Southeast Asia’s most valuable startup secured US$550 million ($772 million) in funds to step up a battle with Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba and other players in Indonesia.

SINGAPORE (April 18): Singapore may have just added a new tech billionaire, but it had to lure him from Japan first.

SINGAPORE (Jan 11): Garena, Southeast Asia’s most valuable startup, picked Goldman Sachs Group Inc. to lead a planned initial public offering that could fetch about US$1 billion ($1.44 billion), according to people with knowledge of the matter.

Garena is expanding into e-payments and e-commerce. Both industries are well populated with players that do not seem interested in making money. Is Singapore’s most valuable start-up likely to come out ahead?