What the award recognizes
Every year, the Microsoft Partner of the Year Awards recognize partners for the results they achieve with their customers through Microsoft Cloud, AI, services and devices. The Training Services category is for training partners that deliver high-quality training at scale, with a strong focus on AI and Copilot. It values training that leads to real adoption, with measurable outcomes for learners and companies.
In 2026, Microsoft chose its winners and finalists from more than 4,500 nominations worldwide. The award comes one year after Microsoft named Founderz Best Training Partner of the Year 2025 in Spain.
The AI Fellows in the nomination
At Founderz, AI Fellows adapt their support to each learner’s level and pass a question to an instructor when the learner needs one. The nomination showed how they personalize learning alongside live masterclasses, learning paths and hands-on practice.
Frontierz brings these AI Fellows to companies: each person works with an AI Fellow that helps them use AI at work and learn the company’s know-how, through the AI Adoption Platform, AI Studio and the LMS.
“Artificial intelligence only creates real impact when it reaches people.”
Working with Microsoft since 2023
Founderz joined Microsoft for Startups Founders Hub in 2023 and became a Microsoft training partner the same year. Since then the two companies have run several AI training programs together, among them AI Skills 4 Women, a free international initiative, and the ERIA Chair, created in 2024 with Universidad Autónoma de Madrid and focused on employability and responsibility in AI.
Founderz and Frontierz
Anna Cejudo and Pau Garcia-Milà founded Founderz in 2021. It has trained more than 700,000 professionals in more than 170 countries and supported more than 1,700 companies. Founderz is still the school where people learn AI; Frontierz is the platform companies use to make AI part of every team’s work. Read more about us.
Frontierz works with the AI tools your company already uses: Microsoft 365 Copilot, ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude or an internal tool.