# Aubrie Pagano

> Aubrie Pagano is a seed investor at Alpaca VC (New York) backing Software and E-Commerce. See 19 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Alpaca VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alpaca-vc)
- Location: New York, United States
- Total investments: 19
- Last investment: Jul 2026
- Lead investor: 32%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/aubrie-pagano/b/71b/143
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/aubriepagano

Aubrie Pagano is a seed investor at Alpaca VC in New York focused on Software and E-Commerce. Aubrie Pagano is the General Partner of Alpaca VC. She previously worked at Bow & Drape as a Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer. Aubrie Pagano attended Harvard University.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 4 | 21% |
| E-Commerce | 4 | 21% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 4 | 21% |
| Enterprise Software | 3 | 16% |
| Mobile | 2 | 11% |

39 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 10 | 53% |
| Pre-Seed | 5 | 26% |
| Series A | 3 | 16% |
| Convertible Note | 1 | 5% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Lumient | Lumient provides secure, on-premises enterprise AI infrastructure for investment banks, enabling private AI workflows on confidential data. | $1M | Seed | Jul 02, 2026 |  |
| Applied Atomics, Inc. | Co-located nuclear power plants to unlock the next 1,000 years of advanced industry. | $8.3M | Seed | Mar 25, 2026 |  |
| Autopoiesis Sciences | Autopoiesis Sciences builds next-generation AI models designed to unlock transformative scientific breakthroughs across all critical research domains. The company's approach focuses on developing foundational reasoning capabilities that can autonomously drive discovery in areas where traditional AI has failed to deliver reliable results. |  | Pre-Seed | Jul 30, 2025 |  |
| Optiversal | Optiversal is a provider of AI, NLP, and GPT-3 powered content and merchandising solutions. The company accelerates the content creation process from ideation to publication by producing content suggestions trained on the product catalog. | $5.5M | Series A | May 20, 2025 |  |
| Applied Atomics, Inc. | Co-located nuclear power plants to unlock the next 1,000 years of advanced industry. | $2M | Pre-Seed | Mar 20, 2025 |  |
| Inveterate, Inc | Inveterate is a turnkey solution to deploy paid membership loyalty programs for eCommerce merchants, primarily on the Shopify platform. |  | Seed | Aug 27, 2024 |  |
| Intramotev | Intramotev Autonomous Rail manufactures autonomous zero-emissions rail vehicles to advance the future of freight movement. Intramotev's vehicles provide efficient and cost-effective movement of materials across specialized private railroads for mines, manufacturing facilities, ports, and more that is autonomous and fully battery-electric,enabling rail and mining industries to get lower emissions than diesel-electric locomotives and diesel trucks, shorter stopping distance, and steeper grade capability than existing trains. | $14.4M | Series A | Aug 15, 2024 |  |
| Intramotev | Intramotev Autonomous Rail manufactures autonomous zero-emissions rail vehicles to advance the future of freight movement. Intramotev's vehicles provide efficient and cost-effective movement of materials across specialized private railroads for mines, manufacturing facilities, ports, and more that is autonomous and fully battery-electric,enabling rail and mining industries to get lower emissions than diesel-electric locomotives and diesel trucks, shorter stopping distance, and steeper grade capability than existing trains. | $6.5M | Seed | Sep 12, 2022 |  |
| Pack Digital | Pack Digital is a developer tool that helps build e-commerce storefronts. Their front and backend infrastructure consolidates product information and content updates in a central system to manage PWA builds and deployments. Their services include technical consulting and strategic services. | $3M | Seed | Mar 23, 2022 |  |
| Shiru | Shiru leverages computational design to create enhanced proteins that feed the world sustainably. | $17M | Series A | Oct 27, 2021 |  |

10 of 19 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Flybridge](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/flybridge-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Aera VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aera-vc) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Cantos](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cantos-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [CPT Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cpt-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Futureland Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/futureland-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [IdealabX](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/idealabx) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Alpaca VC

VC Fund · New York, United States

Alpaca VC leads Seed rounds in founders that are reshaping the real world. We believe that layering technology over daily life transforms how the real world works, so we invest in the people, products, and processes that power commerce in the physical world. Led by a diverse team of company builders, operators, and analytical thinkers, Alpacadevelops a repeatable playbook to help its entrepreneurs most efficiently progress from Seed to Series A.

5 contacts available at Alpaca VC.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Daniel Fetner | General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/daniel-fetner |
| David Goldberg | General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/david-goldberg-7 |
| Ray Updyke | VP Operations & Finance | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ray-updyke |
| Ryan Freedman | General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ryan-freedman |
| Aubrie Pagano | General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aubrie-pagano |

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## FAQ

### What does Aubrie Pagano invest in?

Aubrie Pagano invests primarily in Software, E-Commerce and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 19 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Aubrie Pagano last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Aubrie Pagano closed in Jul 2026. Shizune tracks 19 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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