10 hours
saved per person, every week
The Garage VC
10 hours back, every week, for every team member.
After four months of use, The Garage VC runs core investment and operational workflows through Ventos, giving its nine-person team more time for judgment, founders, and decisions.
Results after four months
The evidence is measured in capacity, not clicks.
90 team-hours
returned to the nine-person team weekly
95/100
answer quality, rated by the partners
Four months
of Ventos in use across the firm
Inside the fund
A focused team with no room for operational drag.
The Garage VC invests in early-stage fintech and enterprise-tech companies. The team works side by side with founders, from controlled beta testing to global scale, so time spent maintaining systems comes directly out of investment work.
Visit The Garage VCThe nine-person team
Partners3
Principal1
Associate1
Analysts2
Operations manager1
Data & AI Manager1
Their connected stack
Monday.com
CRM
Google Drive
Documents
Gmail
Google Calendar
Calendar
Fireflies
Meeting notes
Zenzap & WhatsApp
Communication
Ventos upgrades the stack they already use. Nothing had to be replaced.
The decision
Building internally would have taken months and delivered only a fraction of the capability.
The Garage had scoped an internal AI project. The expected investment was months of development and significant spend. Even then, the result would have covered only a small part of what Ventos already offered across the firm.
“You were already where we were trying to get to. Building it ourselves stopped making sense.”
Why Ventos
Faster answers because the fund context is already connected.
The team used Claude before moving to Ventos. The difference is not only the model. Ventos works from shared fund context across the CRM, documents, email, calendar, communications, and meeting notes.
Before
A Claude-based workflow
Find and assemble the relevant material
Re-enter the context for each task
Wait for an answer without firm-wide memory
With Ventos
Shared fund context
Ask one question across the connected stack
Receive a faster answer grounded in firm history
Make the same capability available to every team member
What runs on Ventos
One platform across the investment workflow.
Ventos turns scattered context into usable work, from first company record to the next partner meeting.
01
Data entry and record updates
New company information reaches the CRM without the team copying it field by field.
02
Deal-flow tracking
Deal status and history stay connected across the systems the team already uses.
03
Sourcing
The team can find relevant companies and people without starting each search from zero.
04
Company and people monitoring
Signals about companies, founders, and relevant relationships are easier to follow over time.
05
Document creation
Ventos drafts internal materials from the firm context already connected to the platform.
06
Meeting preparation
Past conversations, notes, emails, and CRM history become available in one answer.
07
Task management
Follow-ups and operational work can be turned into clear, trackable next actions.
In the partner meeting
Institutional memory, while the conversation is still happening.
A partner can ask when the firm last spoke with a founder, what was discussed, or where an introduction came from. Ventos searches the shared fund context and returns the answer without someone leaving the room to reconstruct it.
Ventos
Connected to the fund's shared context
When did we last speak with the founder, what changed, and who made the original introduction?
I found the latest meeting note, the related email thread, and the CRM record. Here is the timeline, the most recent update, and the original relationship path.
CRMEmailMeeting notes
Team-wide impact
Ten hours per person becomes a different operating week.
Across the full nine-person team, The Garage estimates that Ventos eliminates about 90 hours of repetitive work every week.
Team
9 people
Partners, investors, analysts, operations, and Data & AI.
Weekly capacity returned
≈ 90 hours
About two full workweeks returned to the firm, every week.
The experience
A platform, plus people who help the firm get value from it.
The Garage did not have to pause other priorities to make Ventos useful. The teams worked through a shared roadmap, connecting the existing stack and expanding the workflows that mattered most.
Existing tools stay in place
Shared roadmap
Firm-wide access
What comes next
Adoption is growing, and speed still matters.
Not every workflow has moved over yet. The shared roadmap continues to focus on deeper team adoption and even faster responses for moments when a partner needs an answer during a live conversation.
Run your firm on AI
Give your team more time for judgment.
See how Ventos can connect your current stack and remove repetitive work across the investment lifecycle.
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