Pava LaPere biography: 13 things about EcoMap Technologies co-founder

Pava Marie LaPere was an American tech entrepreneur from Baltimore, Maryland, United States. She is Frank LaPere and Caroline LaPere‘s daughter.

Pava lived in a luxury apartment in Mount Vernon, Baltimore. The buiding, which used to be the Congress Hotel, is managed by Zahlco.

In September 2020, Pava was included in Baltimore Business Journal’s 40 Under 40 list. She was included in Culture Media Co x Impaction’s 25 Under 25 Social Entrepreneurs in October 2020, Maryland Inno – The Business Journals’ 25 Under 25 list in September 2021 and Forbes’ 30 Under 30 list in the social impact category in May 2023,.

Originally from Tucson, Arizona, USA, Pava attended Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. Here are 13 more things about her:

1. From February 2015 to May 2019, she was the president of TCO Labs in Baltimore. She co-founded the company.
2. In August 2015, she entered Johns Hopkins University to pursue a bachelor’s degree in computer science.
3. From December 2015 to December 2017, she was Alpha Kappa Psi- Rho Psi‘s vice president of professional development.
4. From April 2016 to August 2017, she worked at Marigold Health in Baltimore as a content developer. From April 2016 to April 2019, she was a head course assistant at Johns Hopkins University.
5. From May 2016 to November 2018, she was a Contrary Capital venture partner.
6. From August 2016 to August 2019, she was the executive director of The Hatchery at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore. In November 2016, she received the Ralph S O’Connor Entrepreneurship Grant from Johns Hopkins Technology Ventures and the Thomas J. & Bernie K. Mill Endowed Scholarship.
7. From June 2018 to October 2021, he was the board chair of Innov8MD in Baltimore. She founded the nonprofit dedicated to supporting student entrepreneur across Maryland. 
8. In May 2019, she earned her bachelor’s degree in sociology from Johns Hopkins University. She majored in computer science her first three years at the university then switched to sociology her senior year.
9. From August 2019 to May 2020, she supported Johns Hopkins Technology Ventures’ FastForwardU division in design and implementation of two accelerator programs at Johns Hopkins University.
10. In December 2018, she co-founded EcoMap Technologies in Baltimore and served as its chief executive officer.
11. In May 2021, she received the Bisciotti Foundation Prize for Student Entrepreneurship from Johns Hopkins University.
12. At 11:34 a.m. on September 25, 2023, Baltimore Police Department officers found her dead inside her apartment in Mount Vernon with signs of blunt-force trauma to her head. She was 26.
13. On September 26, 2023, the Baltimore Police Department announced an arrest warrant for Jason Dean Billingsley, then 32, who is accused of murdering her.