Jade Raymond opens Sony-backed Haven game studio in Montreal

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
March 16, 2021
Updated June 19, 2025
2 min

Jade Raymond, a seasoned game studio executive who most recently headed Google Stadia‘s games, has opened a new Montreal-based studio called Haven — with backing from Sony.

Raymond was part of the team that made the original Assassin’s Creed, and she rose through the ranks at Ubisoft, eventually starting Ubisoft Toronto. Her teams worked on games such as Assassin’s Creed II, Watch Dogs, and The Mighty Quest for Epic Loot.

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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.