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Jory Bell is a General Partner at Playground Global, an early-stage venture capital firm based in Palo Alto, California.[1][2][3] He joined the firm in 2015 as vice president and has since been involved in a number of investments in deep tech areas such as advanced manufacturing, aerospace, genomics, and synthetic/computational biology.[1][4]
Early life and education
editHe grew up in Rochester, New York, and attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he earned three undergraduate degrees in architecture, literature, and earth, atmospheric, and planetary sciences.[3][5][4] After graduation, 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
editBell 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 companies like Nervana Systems (acquired by Intel), Velo3D (which went public in October 2021), and Relativity Space.[3][4] He currently leads Playground’s engineered biology investing practice with investments in companies including: Ultima Genomics, Strand Therapeutics and Manifold Bio.[3][4][9]
Current board memberships
editBell currently serves on the boards of several private companies, including: Amber Bio, Atomic AI, Manifold Bio, Relativity Space, Strand Therapeutics, and Ultima Genomics.[10][11][12][13][1][4]
References
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- ^ "Jory Bell Playground Global LLC [LSUS] Life-Sciences-USA.com - The Transatlantic Life Sciences Web Portal". www.life-sciences-usa.com. Retrieved 2024-11-20.
- ^ 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.