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.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZhxIMFnxb8
02:10 Tito describes herself with 5 words
8:20 Why Tito moved back to Nigeria?
12:25 How did Helium Health start?
16:45 Challenges faced while building Helium?
20:20 What is the reason behind Helium being one of the biggest Healthtech?
32:29 All about her VC firm - Magic Fund
33:59 How much is the check size that Magic fund offers to founders?
35:00 What she wishes she knew at 21
36:42 Tito's favourite food and favourite city
37:56 What she can be caught doing when she isn't working
38:20 Tito's advice to Women in Tech