Pava LaPere was found dead, with blunt force trauma, at this Baltimore apartment building, police say. (Screenshots: left from Ignite Baltimore and right from WJZ)
Police in Baltimore, Maryland, say they found a tech CEO dead from blunt force trauma in her apartment and homicide detectives have now taken over the case.
Forbes profiled Pava LaPere, then 25, earlier this year under the Social Impact category of their 30 Under 30 list. She was the co-founder of EcoMap Technologies.
“EcoMap curates data about all the organizations, resources, and other assets within any ecosystem– from a city’s tech community to an entire industry– and puts that information into free platforms that enable users to navigate them,” Forbes wrote in their profile about LaPere. “With over $4 million raised and a team of nearly 30, the Johns Hopkins grad runs a company whose clients include The Aspen Institute, Meta, the WXR Fund, and T.Rowe Price Foundation.”
Here’s how LaPere put her work in a 2019 speech before the event series Ignite Baltimore in 2019: “Hey, guys, I’m Pava, and I’m an entrepreneur, but I’m actually one of those weird types of entrepreneurs because my job is to help other people become entrepreneurs.”
