Jory Bell
investing in early stage deep tech startups
Palo Alto, California
Overview
Work Experience
General Partner
2018 - Current
VP
2015 - 2018
Playground is an early-stage deep tech venture capital firm backing technical and scientific founders
Board Member
2023
Board Member
2022
Atomic AI is a developing the cutting-edge fusion of machine learning and structural biology to unlock RNA drug discovery.
Raised $42,000,000.00 from Modi Ventures, Nat Friedman, Neal Khosla, Patrick David Hsu, Doug Mohr, Greylock, Factory, Not Boring, AME Cloud Ventures and Playground Global.
Board Member
2020
Manifold Bio is building a protein barcoding platform to bring the power of multiplexed measurement.
Raised $45,399,985.00 from FAST — by GETTYLAB, Tencent, Triatomic Capital, Fifty Years, Section 32, Playground Global, FPV Ventures and Horizons Ventures.
Board Member
2019
Strand Therapeutics is a biopharmaceutical company applying synthetic biology to RNA therapeutics to develop single dose mRNA treatments.
Raised $104,200,000.00 from Potentum partners, Playground Global, Eli Lilly & Company Foundation, FPV Ventures, Redmile Group, BeiGene, ANRI and Camford Capital.
Board Member
2018
Relativity Space is an aerospace company that designs, develops, and builds 3D printed rockets.
Raised $1,355,719,978.00 from K5 Global and Arvin Bhangu.
Board Member
2017
Ultima Genomics is a developer of a low-cost sequencing platform.
Raised $600,000,000.00 from General Atlantic, Playground Global, Marius Nacht, Founders Fund, Khosla Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners, D1 Capital Partners, aMoon Fund and Andreessen Horowitz.
Board Observer
2024
Board Member
2022 - 2024
Infinimmune operates as a biotechnology company.
Raised $12,000,000.00 from Playground Global, Ron Alfa, Paul Conley, Benjamin Kim, Joshua Meier, Pear VC, Civilization Ventures, Jacob Becraft, Axial VC and Saya Bio.
Board Member
2021 - 2024
Mangata is a telecommunication company that specializes in satellite and wired communication services.
Raised $134,550,927.00 from KT SAT.
Board Member
2016 - 2022
Velo3D is a digital manufacturing company that uses 3D production printers and flow print preparation software to print 3D metal.
Raised $305,085,521.00 from Khosla Ventures, Playground Global, Baron Capital and Bessemer Venture Partners.