AI agent training for VCs and their portfolios

Hands-on training that turns your team, your founders and their teams into people who build and run AI agents on their own work.

Led by James McAulay: ElevenLabs Growth, exited founder, Cambridge CompSci.

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We’ve trained teams at these funds and the companies they back

Fund teams and portfolio founders and operators have been through the Agent Accelerator.

“If you want to join the top 0.1% of AI capability you need this course.”
Julz Contoguris, Product Exp. Director, Heights, $17m raised

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Your portfolio is competing with AI-native rivals

Agent-native companies move faster

Companies founded since 2024 build agents into how they work from day one. Older teams need to adapt now.

Do more with less

CEOs we've worked with report their team now operates with the capability of 2x the headcount.

“Without a doubt, the Agent Accelerator was the highest ROI thing I've done since founding the company.”
Paul Wickers, Founder & CEO, huggg, $5m raised

Why we’re better

Every AI training provider is pitching your fund.
Most have never worked in a venture-backed startup before.

James has worked inside leading VC-backed AI scaleups, has used agents to scale this company to $1m annual revenue in its first year with no full-time employees, and teaches what he has run for real.

500+people trained

200+companies

68%of alumni from
VC-backed companies

James McAulay

Leads the training himself

Cambridge Computer Science

Encore CEO (acquired by Mixcloud)

Growth playbooks from
VC-backed AI startups

James has personally used agentic tactics to grow these companies. What he teaches your team, he has already run.

$100m–$200m ARRCreator Growth Lead (2025)
$60m raisedGrowth Marketer
$15m+ raisedGrowth Marketer

Every major agent, not one vendor’s

Your teams learn to build in whichever agent they already use.

Claude
Claude Code
ChatGPT
Codex
Grok Bot
Hermes
Instinct
OpenClaw

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3 ways we work with funds

Preferential pricing for your portfolio

Your portfolio companies get a preferential rate on the live, 4-week Agent Accelerator cohort, or on a private bootcamp for their own team.

Live cohort: the next starts Tue 17 Nov 2026
Private bootcamp: 1 to 2 days, built around their team
A private code for your platform team to share
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Bootcamps for your own investing & operating teams

Bespoke, intensive 1 to 2-day bootcamps for your team, built securely on your own SaaS tools and data: deal flow, portfolio support, finance and ops.

In person or online
A setup intake before, a written roadmap after
Hands-on building, not a lecture
Team workshops

Hosted days for your portfolio

We run bootcamps, workshops and hackathons for your portfolio founders and their teams. You bring the room and the invite list; we do everything else.

AI Accelerator Days, 9 to 5, capped numbers
Webinars by function: GTM, growth, ops
Hackathons up to 100 people
Claude Code course

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From basic ChatGPT to self-improving agents in a month

What we teach, and where your team ends up.

Using AI out of the box

Agents that wait for your prompt

Proactive Agent Teammates

Parallel agents daily

Through the day

Once a day

Most people are stuck here

We’ll get you here in 4 weeks

1 Basic chat

2 Projects

3 Second brain

4 MCPs, APIs & CLIs

5 Custom agents, Skills & Evals

6 Proactive agents

7 Self-improving agents

Case Studies

James with Alice Bentinck and Matt Clifford at the EF Global Summit, Athens

June 2026 · fund team

The EF team asked for James’ help in using AI agents more deeply in their own work. They were investing in AI companies, but knew they could use it better themselves.

Workshop 1: For 10 of EF’s investing and operating team. A 4-week agent-building programme, ending in a Demo Day.
Workshop 2: A 100-person AI hackathon for EF’s global team, at the EF Global Summit in Athens.
Impact: Finance saved one day every month of manual work. New Talent Investors got up to speed faster. More, better founder conversations, with agents handling the ops and admin.

“The session was superb”
Alice Bentinck, CEO, Entrepreneurs First

Founders building agents at the LocalGlobe x Ada Ventures AI Accelerator Day, Phoenix Court

LocalGlobe x Ada VenturesSept 2026 · portfolio day

One AI Accelerator Day at Phoenix Court in London, for 18 founders, operators and investors.

Morning: Set up the agent foundations: a second brain, connectors, security and skills.
Afternoon: Build agents, then demo. Everyone built on their own work, then showed it in 75 minutes of demos.
After: Every attendee kept permanent access to the self-paced course.

“Collectively we’ve likely already saved 100s of hours of work a month for our teams”
Ben Norton, Venture Partner - Talent, Ada Ventures

Ben Norton with James McAulay at Phoenix Court — Ben Norton, Venture Partner - Talent at Ada Ventures (left), with James at Phoenix Court

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From the founders they back

“Sending my team on James' accelerator was one of the best decisions I've made in a very long time. The results have just been astounding, like transformational.”
Rachel Carrell, Founder & CEO, Koru Kids, $19m raised
“Get to upper intermediate or advanced level on Claude rapidly and understand how to drive adoption in your team and business.”
Aron Gelbard, CEO & Founder, Bloom & Wild, $127m raised
“I stopped thinking about AI as a faster way to do the tasks I already do, and started thinking about how it could 10x my impact.”
Radha Vyas, CEO & Co-Founder, Flash Pack, $6m raised
“Before the accelerator I was a basic ChatGPT user. The course completely changed how I work with AI. I now use Claude throughout my working day, dictating tasks to agents which then utilise other apps.”
Tom Woodcock, Head of Operations, Tumelo, $22m raised
“This is the course that takes you from 'aware' to 'enabled'. We've seen immediate results in our company productivity, far beyond what I expected.”
Freddie Fforde, Co-Founder & CEO, Patch, $4.8m raised
“As a founding team of a scale up, we needed a better grasp of the fast evolving world of Agentic AI. We come away upskilled, having created our own custom agents and AI apps.”
Leo MacLehose, CEO & Co-Founder, FANZO