Google Ventures: Internal Tool
Overview
In a one-week sprint, I designed and shipped five features solo for an internal Google Ventures tool used by the deal team to source, research, and track companies: a chat sidebar, scalable people-search filtering, research docs with version history, a people-connections view, and a VC company page.
Chat sidebar
An AI chat sidebar that can research a company or answer a follow-up question on the spot, right next to the page it's talking about. Collapsed by default, so it's there when needed without competing with the page underneath.
People search
Replaced a single company dropdown with real filters, job title, location, tags, GV connections, and more, so the deal team can actually narrow thousands of contacts instead of scrolling through them.
Research docs & version history
The research tab had grown into a dozen overlapping category rows repeating the same documents. I flattened it into one filterable list, sortable by type and person, so finding a document doesn't mean scanning the whole page first.
Each document also got its own version history, so anyone can see how a doc evolved, restore an earlier draft, or jump into an AI action, like regenerating or summarizing, right from the page.
People connections
A connections table on every contact showing who on the GV team already knows them, meeting count, last touch, LinkedIn degree, so outreach never has to start cold when someone's already in the network.
VC company page
A dedicated page for tracking co-investors themselves, not just the startups: an AI-generated relationship summary, deployment and portfolio-performance metrics, every shared deal, and every GV contact at the firm, all in one place.
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