Alkemio is an Argentina-based deep tech company rethinking rare earth refining at a time when global supply chains are under pressure. With over 90% of refining capacity concentrated in China, industries and governments are seeking independent access to critical minerals essential for EVs, semiconductors, defense systems, and energy transition infrastructure.

In this episode, we speak with founders Federico Pereyra Bonnet and Ailin Svagzdys, about the company’s proprietary molecular recognition platform and its modular, climate-friendly, refining model as an alternative to capital-heavy legacy plants. With a 15-year commercial framework in place at Iron Duke Mine, Alkemio is positioning itself at the intersection of science, geopolitics, and infrastructure.

Followed by Investor Talk with Laetitia Marcadé, our Investment Committee, #EpicInvestor, and principal at Dalus Capital, the lead investor.

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

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.