Trouble Sleeping?
We Know What's Keeping AI Startup Founders Up At Night...
AI startup life moves at lightning speed. Your runway is shrinking, deadlines are slipping, and investors are watching closely. The difference between success and failure? Your team.
What's Keeping You Up at Night?
AI founders, we know the stuggle:
💤 Your runway is shrinking—and the clock is ticking
💤 Big Tech is hiring aggressively, making it harder to compete
💤 Investors want results, and they won’t wait forever
💤 Compute costs are climbing, eating into your funding
💤 Your product is strong—but without the right team, execution stalls
We take the guesswork out of hiring so you can build, scale, and sleep easy.
Unlock Success with the Right AI Team
At Acceler8, we connect cutting-edge AI and deep tech companies with the top 1% of engineering talent — fast.
See how we’ve helped scale elite teams, deliver complex projects, and drive product breakthroughs. Download our Client Success Pack. Inside, you'll find real examples of how we partner with ambitious companies to build high-impact teams across AI, hardware, and software.
Sleepless nights?
The A8 Talent Genie helps you rest easy
90% of AI startups fail - not because of their tech, but because they hire the wrong team. The right team isn't just an asset - it's your competitive advantage. We build elite AI teams that help you scale, secure funding, and launch faster. Let's build your future together.
Book a quick call and get tailored advice on scaling your team.
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Acceler8 by Name & Nature
Don't Just Take Our Word For It...
Mat and the Acceler8 team is the best in the business! I don't use this analogy loosely, but Mat is the "John Wick" of recruiting. "I gave him an impossible task. A job no one could have pulled off....the candidates he discovered laid the foundation of what we are now." 😅 In all seriousness, the team at Acceler8, led by Mat, is the single most effective agency or recruiting platform/source I have worked with in my career. They routinely produce candidates who perform fantastically well on interviews and on a personal note, Mat's weekly catch-up calls are a pleasure. If you are working in the AI space, particularly anything compute or research intensive (Kernel engineers, RE/RS, Distributed systems engineers, HPC, etc), you need to be working with Mat, Rose and the team. I can not recommend him/them more highly.
After evaluating a handful of external firms for a very specialized AI/ML search, I chose Acceler8 because of how prepared Rose was during a discovery call. She brought in a great group of candidates and did a phenomenal job handling communication, and helped us stay ahead of any challenges. Can't recommend her enough!
Mat and the Acceler8 team have been amazing to work with, from sourcing top talent to providing market research to assisting on closing candidates to ease of working with the team! If you are looking for additional recruiting resources, look no further!
Luke supports our offices in the UK and US and received very positive feedback from our hiring managers. I appreciate his long-term partnership with MediaTek and his always putting our needs as his priority. His quality of work and professionalism is at the top level in the industry.
Mat has been very resourceful helping us find some great candidates in a tough market. He worked with me closely to identify and short list candidates based on ongoing feedback. Overall, a great experience working with Mat!
Luke is the best recruiter we have worked with—by far. He is kind, professional, and smart. We hire for super specific and often highly technical role, yet Luke always asks the right questions and eventually finds stellar candidates. We continue to work with Luke as we scale our business and would highly recommend him for hiring in the AI/ML/DL fields.
I cannot recommend Mat highly enough. He is one of these rare recruiters who ""gets it"": thoughtful, extremely responsive and you know he will deliver. And a pleasure to work with!
Mat is the best recruiter we have worked with at PolyAI. He has helped hire five of our key machine learning people, in roles ranging from product management to ML research. The quality of the candidates he sourced was superb - the right academic caliber + great cultural fit. I can't wait to work with him again and I'd recommend him to anyone looking to build a world-class machine learning team.
Real-world examples of our work
Case Studies
Rain AI
Our partnership with Rain AI has led to several successful hires, including the VP of Engineering, significantly enhancing their engineering capabilities and supporting their ambitious projects.
Luminous Computing
We helped photonic processor specialist, Luminous Computing, achieve rapid growth by making 32 crucial placements within their ML, software, and hardware divisions.
Lightmatter
Partnering with us, MIT spinout Lightmatter achieved significant expansion of their technical teams, successfully recruiting engineers and researchers for crucial roles.
Cruise
We supported Cruise, a leading self-driving car company, in recruiting 7 specialists, including ML Engineering Managers and Lead Compiler Engineers, for their advanced autonomous vehicle projects.
Our Solutions
How You Can Work With Us
It's our mission to help you build a team destined to accomplish great things.
Embedded
If you're looking to scale your tech teams and do not have the time, expertise or even patience to dedicate to finding exceptional talent then hand it over to us. We will also offer complimentary services which will support the process and add huge value depending on what is important to you. Every solution will be built around your individual needs.
Retained
Ditch the hassle of managing multiple recruitment agencies. Simplify your recruitment process by partnering with us exclusively meaning you'll have a dedicated team to handle all hiring needs, streamlining communication. We'll ensure personalized candidate search, assessment, and selection, tailored to find the best fits for your talent requirements.
Contingency
If you just need all hands on deck in finding those hard to get unicorns and can live without all the other bells and whistles, this is the solution for you. We're here to make hiring easy for you. Our contingency approach doesn't require upfront fees, saving you money. This way, you can keep your business on track, even when you need to hire people unexpectedly.
Our Sectors
ML Research & Engineering
Semiconductor & Chip Design
Software for ML Platforms
Silicon Photonics
High-Performance Computing
Machine Learning Compilers
Let's Build Your Future, Together.
Every day without the right team is a day lost. Let us lighten your load by connecting you with top-tier talent—whether you need a single expert or an entire team primed to revolutionize the tech landscape.