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April 6, 2022

Dear Sifted: What should I do? ‘We’re on the hunt for a non-executive director’

Sexual healh platform Lvndr raised a £1.5m seed round last September. Now it wants to hire someone to chair its board of directors. We asked the experts for their advice


This is the second piece in a new Sifted series, where we ask you, our readers, to send us your startup problems, before rounding up some top notch advice from industry experts. Need some sage wisdom yourself? Submit your startup problems here. You can do this anonymously if you prefer.

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Kai Nicol-Schwarz

Kai Nicol-Schwarz was a senior reporter at Sifted. He covered AI and UK tech.

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