Youth AI Lab #22: Mr. Tobias Reiter — AI Bringing Quality Medical Care to Africa

In this talk, Mr. Reiter joined us to share his inspiring journey from being a fintech innovator in Europe to becoming a social entrepreneur in Africa. Additionally, he shared how he and his partners built Viebeg, which is now positively impacting thousands of clinics and hundreds of thousands of people's lives, and how AI technology plays a vital role.

Tobias Reiter is a serial social entrepreneur with extensive experience in the fields of AI technology, finance, and consulting. He is the Co-Founder and CEO of VIEBEG, a Rwanda and Silicon Valley-based health AI tech company that focuses on expanding access to affordable healthcare, currently serving 750+ healthcare providers in Kenya, Rwanda, and DRC. Under Tobias’ leadership, VIEBEG has received venture capital backing and is making a significant impact in improving the lives of people in Africa.

Before founding VIEBEG, while still in college, Tobias Reiter built his first venture, a machine learning-powered trading financial company. Even though Tobias and his team were financially very successful, he soon discovered that there is more to life than just making money and wanted to build AI technology to positively impact the world. As part of his Master’s studies, Tobias had the opportunity to visit several countries in East Africa, where he met his Kenyan co-founder Alex Musyoka, who showed Tobias how inefficient procurement causes massive problems to African health systems and applied AI technology could hold the key to address this important healthcare problem. Since then, the two have made it their life mission to improve Africa’s access to quality healthcare through the combined power of AI technology and human ingenuity.

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