Welcome To Ampliphi Academy

Practical communications training for founders, startup teams and VC portfolios

Build the communications skills your company needs now—before you are ready for a full-service agency. Ampliphi Academy offers private, hands-on workshops from Ampliphi Communications, with useful templates and tools your team can put to work right away.

What is Ampliphi Academy?

Ampliphi Academy is a private PR and storytelling training program for founders, emerging teams and venture-capital portfolios. We created it for people whose main job is building the business and the technology behind it—not becoming communications experts overnight.

The goal is simple: help emerging brands tell better stories. Instead of giving you a semester of theory, we teach the practical skills you need to handle an announcement, prepare for an interview, build a crisis plan or turn customer success into a repeatable storytelling program.

Every workshop is led privately for your team or portfolio group. When the session ends, you leave with practical resources—press release templates, crisis communications worksheets, planning tools and other materials tied to the course—so the training becomes action.

Why startups and VC portfolios need this now

Startups often close funding rounds, launch products and hit meaningful milestones before they have an in-house communications function. That gap can lead to missed opportunities, scattered messaging, rushed press outreach and no clear plan when something goes wrong.

Ampliphi Academy helps close that gap. Founders learn enough to make smarter communications decisions. Teams build a shared language and process. VC firms can give portfolio companies a useful capability-building benefit without asking every company to hire an agency before it is ready.

Private workshops currently available

Press Release Fundamentals

Learn how to decide whether an announcement deserves a press release, find the strongest angle and organize the essential information before you write. We break down headlines, leads, quotes, boilerplates, timing and approvals, then show you how to identify the reporters and publications that actually cover your market.

Crisis Communications Planning

The best time to prepare for a crisis is before one happens. Build a practical plan for product failures, data issues, leadership changes, viral complaints and other reputation threats. Your team will clarify roles, escalation paths, stakeholder priorities and the first steps to take in the opening hours.

Storytelling for Founders

Turn a collection of company facts into a clear narrative people can understand and remember. We help founders identify the problem they are uniquely positioned to solve, connect business milestones to a larger story and build consistency across funding, product, partnership and growth announcements.

Starting a Thought Leadership Program

Build visibility around the expertise your leaders already have. This workshop covers bylined articles, speaking opportunities, executive social content, awards and the relationship between earned and owned media—so your executives contribute something useful instead of simply adding to the noise.

Basic Media Training

Prepare founders and executives for print, online, broadcast, podcast and webinar interviews. Learn how to stay on message without sounding rehearsed, answer difficult questions, bridge back to what matters and adapt your preparation to the format.

How to Select a Communications Agency—and Work With One

Know what to look for when your company is ready for outside communications support. We cover agency models, evaluation questions, realistic expectations, scope and pricing considerations, and the habits that help a client-agency relationship produce better work.

How to Build a Newsroom

Create a useful, trustworthy home for your company story. Learn what reporters, investors, customers and AI-powered search tools need to find: press releases, media coverage, executive bios, brand assets, FAQs, contact information and clear, current company facts.

Building a Successful Customer Story Program

Your strongest proof often lives inside your customer base. Learn how to help sales, customer-success and support teams surface the right stories, secure participation and turn real customer outcomes into content for earned, owned, shared and paid channels.

How it works

1. Schedule a conversation. Tell us about your company, team or portfolio and what you need people to learn.
2. Choose the right workshop. All eight courses are available now and can be tailored to your stage, industry and communications experience.
3. Train privately. We lead a focused session for a founder, leadership team, company team or VC portfolio group.
4. Put it into practice. Participants receive templates, worksheets and course-specific resources to keep using after the workshop.

Frequently asked questions

Ready to build your communications skills?

Tell us what your team is working toward and we will help you choose the most useful place to begin.