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November 15, 2021

How to avoid internal comms breaking down

Healx's Charlotte Chorley shares comms advice for startup teams as they hit scale


Amy Lewin

3 min read

Charlotte Chorley, Healx

If you can communicate clearly about AI, healthtech and regulation, then you should probably be able to communicate to your own team. Enter Charlotte Chorley, director of strategic alignment and communications at Healx, the Cambridge-based biotech startup which is using AI to find treatments for rare diseases. In a recent issue of our Startup Life newsletter, she shared internal comms advice for teams as they hit scale. 

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Amy Lewin

Amy Lewin is Sifted’s editor and host of Startup Europe — The Sifted Podcast . Follow her on X, LinkedIn and Bluesky

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