Julia Kemp

Business Professor at SCAD. Product Storyteller. Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Builder & Advisor.

📍 Boston, Massachusetts, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 3 investments📅 12 years investing🗓 Last invested Sep 2016
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Board Member
Sep 2016
A think tank for transformational learning & creative leadership. Aether is a 501(c)3 with a desire to locate, inspire, and nurture the world’s future creative leaders. The Chattanooga-based talent development venture facilitates an educational initiative, SHiFT, that accelerates skill development, strategic vision, and emotional capabilities to mature professional intuition. Aether's educational events provide opportunities to gain leadership experience, amplify abilities, and connect the dots between disciplines to offer an immersive path to success.
early stageDesign Services
Board Member
Oct 2014
Cake (joincake.com) provides a digital platform that makes it easier to do advance care planning and end-of-life planning. Cake is one of Built In Boston’s “50 Tech Startups to Watch in 2018” and has been featured in The New York Times, BBC, Forbes, The Huffington Post, and The Boston Globe. MISSION: Together, we are building a destination for end-of-life planning, response, and inspiration. Reflecting on what we would want at end of life helps us to live congruently with our values, be considerate of our loved ones, and bring new meaning to living. Check out our job postings on Angellist: https://angel.co/joincake/jobs/
Board Member
Mar 2014
Inspired by a 150 year old design, ADK Packworks™ has created a new category for the pack and bag industry by developing a patent pending 4-sided internal structural folding frame. It has incorporated this design into a range of grocery & shopping bags/totes and recreational backpacks that offer functional features targeting multiple product categories and lifestyle markets.
early stageManufacturing
Experience · 5 entries
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2020
(A contemporary general store in stealth mode)
Founder
Jun 2020
2016
Board Member
Sep 2016
A think tank for transformational learning & creative leadership. Aether is a 501(c)3 with a desire to locate, inspire, and nurture the world’s future creative leaders. The Chattanooga-based talent development venture facilitates an educational initiative, SHiFT, that accelerates skill development, strategic vision, and emotional capabilities to mature professional intuition. Aether's educational events provide opportunities to gain leadership experience, amplify abilities, and connect the dots between disciplines to offer an immersive path to success.
early stageDesign Services
Associate Director, Arthur Rock Center for Entrepreneruship
Jan 2016
Founded in 1908 as part of Harvard University, Harvard Business School is located on a 40-acre campus in Boston. Its faculty of more than 250 offers full-time programs leading to the MBA and PhD degrees, as well as more than 175 Executive Education programs, and Harvard Business School Online, the School’s digital learning platform. For more than a century, faculty have drawn on their research, their experience in working with organizations worldwide, and their passion for teaching, to educate leaders who make a difference in the world. The School and its curriculum attract the boldest thinkers and the most collaborative learners who will go on to shape the practice of business and entrepreneurship around the globe. Community Guidelines: We may hide or block persons or hide or delete comments that include obscenities or are explicit, are spam or duplicate posts, spread misinformation, are irrelevant to the post, or are otherwise deemed inappropriate.
2014
Board Member
Oct 2014
Cake (joincake.com) provides a digital platform that makes it easier to do advance care planning and end-of-life planning. Cake is one of Built In Boston’s “50 Tech Startups to Watch in 2018” and has been featured in The New York Times, BBC, Forbes, The Huffington Post, and The Boston Globe. MISSION: Together, we are building a destination for end-of-life planning, response, and inspiration. Reflecting on what we would want at end of life helps us to live congruently with our values, be considerate of our loved ones, and bring new meaning to living. Check out our job postings on Angellist: https://angel.co/joincake/jobs/
Board Member
Mar 2014
Inspired by a 150 year old design, ADK Packworks™ has created a new category for the pack and bag industry by developing a patent pending 4-sided internal structural folding frame. It has incorporated this design into a range of grocery & shopping bags/totes and recreational backpacks that offer functional features targeting multiple product categories and lifestyle markets.
early stageManufacturing
Investment activity
2014–2016 · 3 investments
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