Using agency work on personal website
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If you're starting your own company, then you should be OK with something like "Work completed at [former employer name]," and if you want to be super-clear you could add "prior to launching [your business name]," or simply "pre-[your business name]." This clarification can be useful if you've continued to do "white-label" work for agencies after starting on your own, as I've done from time to time. But I'd be very selective in the older stuff you show. It's best if the majority of the work was done for your own clients.
I'd work toward the goal of phasing out the stuff done for former employers. Might take a year, might take five. That's what I'm in the midst of doing (my new site will have less work done for past employers than my current site, and the old stuff will also be further down in order of appearance). But like others have hinted, you have to start somewhere, so hopefully there aren't any contracts in force which would keep you from showing (credited) work done under someone else's employment.