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Jory Bell

General Partner, Playground Global

About

Jory Bell is a venture capital investor at Playground Global who combines his triple major background in physics and electrical engineering/computer science from MIT with an engineering approach to evaluate deep-tech and biotech companies, focusing on platforms and infrastructure rather than traditional finance metrics. He specializes in bridging robotics automation thinking with biology investments, tackling complex problems in engineered biology and space technology that many investors consider too technically intensive or early-stage. Jory Bell is a venture capital investor at Playground Global who combines his triple major background in physics and electrical engineering/computer science from MIT with an engineering approach to evaluate deep-tech and biotech companies, focusing on platforms and infrastructure rather than traditional finance metrics. He specializes in bridging robotics automation thinking with biology investments, tackling complex problems in engineered biology and space technology that many investors consider too technically intensive or early-stage.

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Investment focus

Stages
Series A
Series B+
Sectors
AI
BioTech
Chips
Robotics
Deeptech
Hardware

Investment details

Avg check size$1M - $20M
Can lead rounds
No
Geographies
USA