I am a venture investor, founder, and advisor. I also teach at MIT and host Tough Tech Today, the premier podcast featuring tech trailblazers. I was previously at Airbus Ventures, Alphabet X, and several startups.► Follow me for posts on tough tech, innovation ecosystems, strategic design, A.I., and a dash of biotech. 💡🧠🤖⚡️🧬 ► We are LinkedIn connections if we've spoken.► If you are an entrepreneur seeking advice and/or investment, or just want to connect: please email me at jmill [at] idm [dot] mit [dot] edu and include how we met or why we should connect.► For security purposes: US citizen, TS/SCI eligible.► I performed applied research and development in robotics and telehealth for the U.S. Army and Navy and then became a venture founder, advisor, and investor (and long-distance barefoot runner🦶). I gained engineering, design, and product experience leading several tech startups based in Pennsylvania and Massachusetts then earned investment experience sourcing opportunities for venture impact funds, then leading the tech investment thesis for a corporate venture capital firm. ► Concurrent to venture work, I maintain a teaching appointment and research affiliation at MIT, where I help grow its professional programs in Smart Manufacturing, Machine Learning, and Corporate Innovation. I co-instruct MechE’s 2.s988 Translational Engineering and am the subject expert and facilitator for the Schwarzman College of Computing’s first online course, AI for the Enterprise, and the AeroAstro/MechE course Robotics Essentials. Personal investments include: Rogue Space, Rise Companies Corp., StartEngine, Look Alive Studio, PopArchitexture, Mad Dog Environmental, Angel Eye, Muddy Charles.► I formed a venture creation company to bring a systems engineering aptitude to inventing and commercializing new tech, "from lab to launch"; Developed new distributed systems, algorithms, software, edge services, materials; Worked in mobility, printing, financial services, oil and gas industries.► Honored as a Solver by MIT SOLVE and winner of the Booz Allen Hamilton Data Analytics Prize, I've led teams who won MassChallenge ('18, '14), Y Combinator Finalists (S18), TechStars Sustainability ('18), MIT 100K ('17), and the MIT Water Innovation Prize ('17).► KOL/SME keyphrases: tough tech, lab-to-market commercialization, innovation ecosystems, frontier technology, emerging markets, translational engineering, system engineering, system design, foresight studies, economic development and diversity (especially Appalachia).