Jory Bell

Playground Global General Partner Jory Bell is tackling some of the most challenging and complex problems in engineered biology and space. Jory is an investor and board member for companies at the edge of frontier technology and innovation in the space, including: Relativity Space, Mangata Networks, Strand Therapeutics, and Ideon. Jory brings a multidisciplinary approach to his work in the aerospace field, identifying opportunities to borrow from other technologies and fields in order to make big leaps. He holds three undergraduate degrees in architecture, literature, and earth atmosphere and planetary studies from MIT, and worked as a researcher at the MIT/Wood Hole Oceanographic Institute climate change program where he designed, built, and deployed autonomous deep sea robotics. He then spent six years at Apple as a laptop designer, before founding OQO, a computer hardware and software manufacturer known for having created the world’s smallest Windows PC.