Tencent America LLC

Tencent America LLC is the American arm of Tencent, an internet and technology company founded in 1998 that develops products and services spanning communication, social, gaming and enterprise applications. The parent company is headquartered in Shenzhen, with offices worldwide. Its services connect more than a billion people, and it has grown from a small team into a global technology group over more than two decades.

The company's best-known product is Weixin/WeChat, a communication and social platform used by hundreds of millions of people to stay in touch with friends and family, access transportation and pay for daily expenses. Tencent Games publishes some of the world's most popular video games and interactive entertainment. Alongside these consumer products sit enterprise-facing businesses: Tencent Cloud provides cloud computing solutions supporting clients' digital transformation and business growth, while advertising, marketing and fintech services serve digital advertising, digital payments and enterprise needs.

Technical work at the company covers internet technology, cloud computing, fintech, digital advertising and marketing technology, gaming and interactive entertainment, social and communication platforms, and digital payments. Industry verticals include social and communications, gaming, cloud computing, digital advertising, fintech and digital payments, marketing services and transportation.

The company states a guiding principle of "use technology for good", with an emphasis on improving quality of life, user value, long-term sustainability and the application of technology to real-world problems.