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Jory Bell

investing in early stage deep tech startups

Palo Alto, California

Overview 

Jory Bell, a General Partner at Playground Global in Palo Alto, California, has an impressive track record of investing in early-stage deep tech startups, particularly in sectors like Manufacturing, Space, and BioTech. With a strong background in system architecture and product management, Jory has successfully invested in companies like Relativity Space and Velo3D, contributing to their growth and success in the industry.

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.

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