132 SaaS Companies in East Asia (2026)
LeadWave's database lists 132 SaaS companies headquartered in East Asia, with the most in Hong Kong. Ecommerce is the most common category among them. Below are the largest, with their headcount, funding, LinkedIn and CEO.
- Companies
- 132
- In LeadWave's database, October 2026
- Total funding raised
- $10.5B
- Across 55 funded companies
- Median headcount
- 19
- Of 92 with a known headcount
- Median year founded
- 2016
- Of 125 with a known year
The largest SaaS companies in East Asia
The top 30 of 132, strongest matches first, then by size. Headcount is the latest known figure.
| Company | Website | Employees | Headcount | Funding | CEO | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 Recruit Group | recruit-holdings.com | 10,000+ | 52,000 | — | Takeo Kojima | |
2 Glodon | glodon.com | 5,001–10,000 | 8,500 | — | Andy Hongxing | |
3 Notion | notion.so | 1,001–5,000 | 4,695 | $100M–500M | Akshay Kothari | |
4 Career International | careerintlinc.com | 1,001–5,000 | — | — | Wallace Gao | |
5 eBaoTech | ebaotech.com | 1,001–5,000 | — | — | Woody Mo | |
6 SmartHR | smarthr.co.jp | 51–200 | 1,000 | $194.3M | Kensuke Naito | |
7 Z.ai | z.ai | 501–1,000 | 990 | $1.3B | Damian Zhang | |
8 MegazoneCloud | megazone.com | 201–500 | 880 | $89M | Willy Cho | |
9 Appier | appier.com | 501–1,000 | 518 | $161.5M | Chih-Han Yu | |
10 Donuts | donuts.ne.jp | 201–500 | — | — | Shin Negishi | |
11 91APP | 91app.com | 201–500 | 288 | $9M | Steven Ho | |
12 Sakana AI | sakana.ai | 201–500 | 270 | $370.5M | David Ha | |
13 MoneyHero Group | moneyherogroup.com | 201–500 | 252 | $116M | Rohith Murthy | |
14 Coherent | coherent.global | 51–200 | 163 | $14M | John Brisco | |
15 DeepSeek | deepseek.com | — | 141 | $7.4B | Ryan Azhari | |
16 AfterShip | aftership.com | 51–200 | 127 | $2M | Teddy Chan | |
17 ibox | iboxmpos.com | 51–200 | — | $6.8M | — | |
18 Aigens Technology | aigens.com | 51–200 | — | — | Hans Paul | |
19 BigOne Lab | bigonelab.com | 51–200 | — | — | Lulu Wang | |
20 ByteBridge | bytebridge.io | 51–200 | — | — | Brian Hyeon-woo Cheong | |
21 Lavector | lavector.com | 51–200 | — | — | Jackie Luan | |
22 PowerE2E | powere2e.com | 51–200 | — | — | T.T. Lim | |
23 Privé Technologies | privetechnologies.com | 51–200 | — | — | Julian Schillinger | |
24 SocialPeta | socialpeta.com | 51–200 | — | — | Rocks X. | |
25 XGATE | xgate.com | 51–200 | — | — | Andy Cho | |
26 Ubie | ubie.life | 51–200 | 113 | $32.5M | Kota Kubo | |
27 EventX | eventx.io | 51–200 | 107 | $11.7M | Sum Wong | |
28 Tradesparq | tradesparq.com | 51–200 | 100 | $500K | Dean Yu | |
29 Zaihui | kezaihui.com | 51–200 | 97 | $76M | Xiaojie Li | |
30 Teambition | teambition.com | 51–200 | 96 | $17M | — |
SaaS companies in East Asia at a glance
- Hong Kong is home to 36% of them (47 companies).
- The largest is Recruit Group, with 52,000 employees.
- 55 have disclosed funding, $10.5B in total; 8 raised $100M or more.
- Half were founded before 2016, and 19% in 2020 or later.
- Ecommerce15 · 11%
- Finance13 · 10%
- Marketing12 · 9%
- Customer Support12 · 9%
- Software Engineering10 · 8%
- CRM9 · 7%
- ERP9 · 7%
- Fintech8 · 6%
- 1–1045 · 35%
- 11–5047 · 37%
- 51–20024 · 19%
- 201–5005 · 4%
- 501–1,0002 · 2%
- 1,001–5,0003 · 2%
- 5,001–10,0001 · 1%
- 10,000+1 · 1%
- Before 20005 · 4%
- 2000–200910 · 8%
- 2010–201430 · 24%
- 2015–201956 · 45%
- 2020–202221 · 17%
- 2023 or later3 · 2%
- Under $1M12 · 21%
- $1M–5M17 · 30%
- $5M–10M8 · 14%
- $10M–50M7 · 13%
- $50M–100M3 · 5%
- $100M–500M7 · 13%
- $500M–1B0 · 0%
- $1B+2 · 4%
How this list was built
A company is on this list if its headquarters, as recorded in LeadWave's database, is in East Asia. That covers Hong Kong, Japan, China, South Korea and Taiwan.
The data comes from LeadWave's database of SaaS and AI companies, last updated in October 2026. Companies that share a website are counted once. Headcount, funding and CEO come from public sources, so some fields are blank for smaller companies.
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Frequently asked questions
LeadWave's database lists 132 SaaS companies in East Asia as of October 2026. This page shows the 30 largest; the full list, with CEO contacts, is part of our 15,000+ SaaS companies list.
By headcount, Recruit Group, with 52,000 employees, followed by Glodon and Notion.
Hong Kong, with 47 of the 132 companies, ahead of Japan (40).
On this list, by headquarters: Hong Kong (47 companies), Japan (40), China (19), South Korea (16) and Taiwan (10).
DeepSeek ($7.4B), Z.ai ($1.3B) and Sakana AI ($370.5M), by total disclosed funding.
LeadWave's SaaS companies list covers 15,000+ companies and 16,000+ CEOs, with verified CEO emails, LinkedIn profiles, headcount and funding in one CSV. It's on the List of SaaS Companies page.