On Monday, April 14, 2025, from noon till 1:15 p.m., Ms. Aubrie Pagano, General Partner at Alpaca VC, will speak about venture investing. This guest speaker series is part of the Angel Investing course offered this 2025 spring semester by the Department of Finance.
Interested in listening? Join us at PH 374 or via Zoom.
Any questions? Please contact Prof. Leonard Arvi who is organizing this event.
About the speaker
Aubrie Pagano is a General Partner at Alpaca VC. She brings Commerce experience from both sides of the New York City startup ecosystem as both an operator and investor. Most recently, she built and sold cult-favorite apparel and gifting brand Bow & Drape, acquired by Winn Brands in 2019.
Aubrie drove the omni-channel brand to profitability by retailing direct-to-consumer online and in over 350 Nordstrom, Bloomingdale’s, Macy’s and Hudson’s Bay stores globally. Toward the end of her Bow & Drape journey, she began angel investing out of Factor Ventures, an early stage fund of female operators backing startups with at least one female founder. There, she led investments in Commerce brands and platforms including Maude, Ceremonia, Foodology, and August.
Prior to startups, she started her career in the internal strategy group at Fidelity Investments, where she became the fastest-promoted Analyst to a post-MBA role. She is a 2008 Harvard graduate. Aubrie lives in Brooklyn with her partner and still creates art (right-left brained) in her spare time.