Says their wikipedia page. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweet_Baby_Inc.
Founded by former Ubisoft developers, including scriptwriter Kim Belair and product manager David Bédard
This whole situation displays way more poetic justice than I expected.
Just posting in case i'm not the only one who missed this.
Assassin's Creed is one of the first games I remember that put that virtue signaling "made by people of different faiths, creeds, ethnicities" etc. nonsense, so this is unsurprising.
And at the time I thought nothing of it at the time... I long for those innocent times.