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] 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.
[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.