#FoundersConnect with Tito Ovia, Cofounder of Helium Health (#1 Health-Tech Provider in Africa)

Tito Ovia is a health tech entrepreneur and public health professional who is driven to improve healthcare quality in Africa. She is the co-founder/Head of the Public Sector Growth of Helium Health, a Nigeria-based health tech company that is building the technology infrastructure driving African healthcare.

Tito led the Helium Health team in a landmark partnership with the Akwa Ibom State Government of Nigeria to digitize the hospital processes across the state-run hospitals. She is a recipient of the 2019 Forbes ‘30 under 30’ Healthcare entrepreneur award. She holds a BSc in Biomedical Sciences from the University of Manchester.

In this episode, we learn all about Tito's journey to date - growing up in an affluent family, how her plan to study Medicine doesn’t work out, how she meets her co-founders and starts Helium Health, what her Dad thought about the idea then, their bigs wins, challenges and lessons.

This interview is the perfect way to start a new season of Founder’s Connect. It is chill, fun and is full of lessons.

Tito describes herself with 5 words Why Tito moved back to Nigeria? How did Helium Health start? Challenges faced while building Helium? What is the reason behind Helium being one of the biggest Healthtech? All about her VC firm - Magic Fund How much is the check size that Magic fund offers to founders? What she wishes she knew at 21 Tito's favourite food and favourite city What she can be caught doing when she isn't working Tito's advice to Women in Tech