Jory Bell
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Jory Bell is an American executive who is a general partner at Playground Global, a venture capital firm based in Palo Alto, California.[1][2][3] He joined the firm in 2015 as vice president and has been involved in investments in deep tech areas such as advanced manufacturing, aerospace, genomics, and synthetic/computational biology.[1][4]
Early life and education
[edit]Bell grew up in Rochester, New York, and attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he earned undergraduate degrees in architecture, literature, and earth, atmospheric, and planetary sciences.[3][5][4] He worked as a researcher with the MIT/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute climate change program, designing, building, and deploying autonomous deep-sea robotics.[3][4]
Career
[edit]Bell spent six years at Apple as a product designer before founding OQO in 2000, a company credited by the Guinness World Records as having created the world’s smallest Windows PC.[6][7][8] He then joined Playground Global, where he has played a part in investments in Nervana Systems (acquired by Intel), Velo3D (which went public in October 2021), and Relativity Space.[3][4] He leads Playground’s engineered biology investing practice with investments in companies including Ultima Genomics, Strand Therapeutics and Manifold Bio.[3][4][9]
Bell serves on the boards of Amber Bio, Atomic AI, Manifold Bio, Relativity Space, Strand Therapeutics, and Ultima Genomics.[10][11][12][13][1][4]
References
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- ^ a b c d e "Jory Bell". Playground. Retrieved 2024-11-20.
- ^ a b c d e f "Jory Bell - Strand Therapeutics". www.strandtx.com. 2023-03-08. Retrieved 2024-11-20.
- ^ "Jory Bell - Playground Global | RNA Leaders USA Speaker". informaconnect.com. Retrieved 2024-11-20.
- ^ "Former Apple engineers at OQO call it quits". AppleInsider. 2009-05-22. Retrieved 2024-11-20.
- ^ "Joe Betts-LaCroix, CEO of Retro Biosciences | The Aging Extracellular Matrix". Foresight Institute. Retrieved 2024-11-20.
- ^ "Joe Betts-LaCroix | Speakers 2023". HLTH. Retrieved 2024-11-20.
- ^ "Jory Bell - Board Member at Manifold Bio". THE ORG. Retrieved 2024-11-20.
- ^ "Amber Bio". www.amber.bio. Retrieved 2024-11-20.
- ^ McCormick, Packy. "Atomic AI: Unlocking RNA". www.notboring.co. Retrieved 2024-11-20.
- ^ "Manifold Bio • High Throughput In Vivo Drug Design". www.manifold.bio. Retrieved 2024-11-20.
- ^ "Relativity Space Raises $35M Series B Funding Led by Playground Global as It Extends Full-Stack Rocket Production Leadership and Reinvents Satellite Launch and Deployment". Relativity Space. 2018-03-27. Retrieved 2024-11-20.