Epic Angels
Epic Angels is the largest all-female angel investor collective in Asia-Pacific and Latin America, based in Singapore. The network backs early-stage startups in any sector, requiring at least one woman on the founding team. Water is incidental: as of June 2026, the one water-relevant bet (don't) Waste Water tracks is Enaxiom, a data-centre cooling startup whose system recovers clean water.
Compiled by Antoine Walter, (don't) Waste Water, from official filings and direct intelligence in Leviathan.
The take
Epic Angels was built in 2020 on a deliberately contrarian bet: instead of lobbying male investors to back more women, founder Maaike Doyer set out to create more female investors. The Singapore-based network has since grown into the largest all-female angel collective in Asia-Pacific and Latin America, a few hundred women who pool their judgement and their cheques into early-stage startups.
Epic Angels invests across every vertical, fintech to regenerative agriculture, on one condition: at least one woman on the founding team. The cheques are deliberately small, starting in the tens of thousands rather than the millions, because the network doubles as a school, where members learn to angel-invest by actually doing it. Water has never been a stated theme.
Epic Angels reaches water through a single company, Enaxiom, which it has backed across two deals. Enaxiom, founded in Sydney in 2023, builds HydroCool, a system that cools AI data centres while running on non-potable and wastewater rather than drinking water, and recovers clean water as a by-product. It is the rare deal where a data-centre cooling story is also a water-efficiency story, and the only water-relevant name in Epic Angels' portfolio that (don't) Waste Water tracks.
Epic Angels, for a water founder, is an unusual door: a women-led angel collective with no water mandate that happened to back one of 2026's more interesting water-adjacent deeptech bets. Whether Enaxiom stays a one-off or the start of a pattern is the open question, but a network this size, writing small early cheques across Asia-Pacific and Latin America, is exactly the kind of investor most water founders never think to call.
Water Commitment Score
Compiled from official filings, third-party records, and direct intelligence from investors and founders, in Leviathan · recomputed monthly · as of Jun 2026.
How they invest
Portfolio · 1 water companies
Frequently asked
- What does Epic Angels invest in?
- Epic Angels invests in early-stage startups across Asia-Pacific and Latin America, in any sector, as long as at least one woman sits on the founding team. It is not a water specialist; the one water-relevant company (don't) Waste Water tracks is Enaxiom, a data-centre cooling startup whose system recovers clean water.
- Is Epic Angels a water investor?
- No. Epic Angels has no water fund, no water team, and no water thesis. Water shows up incidentally through a single holding, Enaxiom, a Sydney deeptech startup whose HydroCool system cools AI data centres on non-potable water and recovers clean water as a by-product. Epic Angels invests broadly across all sectors.
- Who runs Epic Angels?
- Epic Angels was founded and is led by Maaike Doyer, a Dutch entrepreneur based between Singapore and Latin America who serves as Managing Partner. She built the network in 2020 to widen access to angel investing for women, and the collective now spans a few hundred members across more than twenty countries.
- Where is Epic Angels based?
- Epic Angels is headquartered in Singapore and invests across Asia-Pacific and Latin America. Founded in 2020, it is the largest all-female angel network in those regions, backing early-stage startups in any sector, on the condition that at least one woman sits on the founding team.
- Is Epic Angels the same as Epic Angel Network?
- Yes. Epic Angels and the Epic Angel Network are the same organisation, the Singapore-based all-female investor collective founded by Maaike Doyer in 2020. Despite the generic-sounding name, it is one global network of women angel investors, reachable at epicangelnetwork.com, not a loose group of individual angels.