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

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