Smiling Jack Tretton
Jack Tretton smiling about the PS4.
Categories

Jack Tretton once ran Sony’s U.S. game division. Now he’s funding indie games

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
  • Updated
  • 3 min

Jack Tretton spent 28 years in gaming, most of it leading Sony’s PlayStation business. He stepped down in 2014 as the PlayStation 4 was on its way to winning the console wars. But Jack is back.

Tretton announced today he is starting a venture capital fund, Interactive Gaming Ventures, to invest money in promising indie game developers. The fund will invest $1 million to $5 million per investment in two to three indies per year for the next seven years, Tretton said in an interview with GamesBeat.

Unlock premium content and VIP community perks with GB M A X! Join now to enjoy our free and premium perks. 

Join now →

Sign in to your account.

Written by

Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.