TeenCare is a Vietnam-based technology company rethinking how families support teenagers during the most difficult years of growing up. As academic pressure, digital exposure, and emotional challenges intensify, parents are expected to guide their children with little real-time insight into what their teens are actually experiencing.

TeenCare tackles this by combining live human mentors with AI-powered personalization. Weekly 1-on-1 mentoring sessions generate real behavioral data, which the platform translates into ongoing insights about each child’s motivations, triggers, and patterns. Instead of generic advice or one-off solutions, parents receive continuous, personalized guidance tailored to their teenager.

Founded by Linh Hoang, who previously scaled WeGrow to 80,000 paid students, TeenCare scaled to an ARR of 1 million USD in just nine months, and has been cash flow positive since May 2025. Backed by Ascend Vietnam Ventures and Iterative, the company is now expanding into the Philippines and Singapore. In this episode, we explore how emotional AI is reshaping parenting, why trust is central to TeenCare’s model, and what this means for the future of family and youth development.

Hosted by Maaike Doyer & Hester Spiegel, founders of Epic Angels.

Companies rely on thousands of suppliers, yet struggle to answer a simple question: do we really know who we’re doing business with right now? With 2,677 ESG and sustainability policies globally, supplier diligence has become a moving target, turning supplier intelligence into core enterprise infrastructure.

Givvable addresses this by embedding continuously verified supplier data directly into procurement, ERP, and risk systems. Instead of one-off surveys or static reports, enterprises can continuously screen, vet, and assess suppliers using trusted credential data at the point where decisions are actually made.

In this episode, Frances Atkins and Naomi Vowels, co-founders of Givvable, share how they built a supplier intelligence platform now supporting 65+ enterprise customers across APAC, the US, and the UK, and why supplier data is becoming unavoidable infrastructure in an increasingly regulated world.

Angel investor [NAME] joins the Investor Talk at the end of this podcast.

Hosted by Maaike Doyer & Hester Spiegel, founders of Epic Angels.

Neem is a Pakistan-based fintech startup building the payments infrastructure that simply doesn't exist in the world's fifth largest country. While 71% of transactions still happen in cash, businesses juggle 10+ payment providers just to collect money or pay vendors. Neem has built the full stack: collections, disbursements, branded wallets, and unified reconciliation—all through a single API.

Founded by Vladimira, Nadeem, and Naeem—a former fintech accelerator builder, the ex-CEO of Pakistan's largest fintech JazzCash, and a former Pakistani Minister of Investment—Neem went live in January 2025 and already powers 50+ enterprise clients including the country's largest logistics provider (2 million packages/day), three top insurers, and healthcare platforms serving millions of patients.

With digital transactions growing 40% year over year and government backing the shift to cashless, Neem is laying the financial rails for 2.5 million+ underserved businesses in a market where Stripe, Razorpay, and Adyen don't operate.

Angel investor Mahrukh Qadeer joins the Investor Talk at the end of this podcast.

Hosted by Maaike Doyer & Hester Spiegel, founders of Epic Angels.

Eolic Wall is a Peru-based renewable energy startup revolutionizing distributed wind generation. While 40% of solar capacity is distributed, less than 1% of wind energy is—because traditional turbines need massive scale to be efficient. Eolic Wall has cracked the code with the Eolic Cell, a 2x2x2 meter modular wind system that delivers utility-scale efficiency with 20x the power density of solar.

Founded by Natalia and Alfredo, former bankers turned deep tech innovators, Eolic Wall uses proprietary aerodynamic geometry and magnetic levitation to achieve the same levelized cost of energy (LCOE) as traditional large-scale turbines—but in a compact, stackable format perfect for buildings, factories, and data centers.

Angel investor Anna Itkin joins the Investor Talk at the end of this podcast.

Hosted by Maaike Doyer, founder of Epic Angels.

BioPlaster from Mexico transforms invasive sargassum algae into high-performance, certified biodegradable materials that replace petroleum-based plastics in packaging and textiles. Their product line includes compostable films, bags, foams, and threads designed for circularity, industrial scalability, and environmental impact.

Listen to the story of Andrea and Daniel, Co-founders of BioPlaster Research, about how they’re taking the 38M metric tons of sargassum algae that washes up on the Caribbean coast every year and converting it into biodegradable solutions for the $900B plastic industry. They have over $5.3M in LOIs from partners like IKEA suppliers, Great Packaging, AbaMex, and our portfolio company Refurbi and will start commercialisation early 2026.

Angel investors Lorena Compean and Stephanie Groen join the Investor Talk at the end of this podcast.

Hosted by Maaike Doyer, founder of Epic Angels.

Refurbi is transforming Latin America's massive e-waste problem into a profitable circular economy solution, generating $7.5M in annual revenue while making quality smartphones accessible to millions. With 1.3 million tons of electronic waste piling up annually and only 3% properly managed, co-founders Sebastian and Sylvia have built the region's most trusted refurbished device ecosystem.

Listen to Sebastian share how they've achieved profitability from day one through data-driven operations, secured exclusive partnerships with Apple and Samsung, and created a business model so efficient they sell devices before paying suppliers. From their high-tech warehouse in Bogota to their expansion into Mexico's 30-40 million device market, discover how Refurbi is capturing the proven global refurbished smartphone opportunity that represents 20% of sales in developed markets but remains largely untapped in Latin America.

At 39:35 sustainability expert Carolina Ocampo-Maya joins for the Investor Talk segment, sharing insights from her facility visit and why this circular economy model represents both strong returns and measurable environmental impact.

Hosted by Maaike Doyer, founder of Epic Angels.

Salva Health is tackling breast cancer screening accessibility with their portable device Julieta, which delivers screening results in under 5 minutes without requiring medical professionals or internet connectivity - reaching underserved women who would otherwise never get tested.

Listen to the story of Valentina, the founder of Salva Health, as she tackles the challenge of late-stage breast cancer detection in Latin America and builds a scalable solution to bring life-saving screening to women in remote communities.

Angel investor Luz Stella Gomez joins the Investor Talk at the end of this podcast (24:00).

Hosted by Maaike Doyer & Hester Spiegel, founders of Epic Angels.

Listen to the story of Avika Narula and Abhi Agarwal from Living Roots. Living Roots from Thailand is dedicated to tackling the challenges faced by the agriculture industry today where 98% of fertilizers used are still synthetic, 75% of them are imported for most countries, and one-third of the world’s farmland is already degraded. Living Roots provides data-driven biological fertilizer manufactured locally that boosts yields and regenerates soil — at the cost of synthetics.

At publication of this episode, Living Roots is actively raising funds.

Angel investor Eva Nixon Wang joins the Investor Talk at the end of this podcast (scroll to 40:30).

Hosted by Maaike Doyer & Hester Spiegel, founders of Epic Angels.