We reviewed public investor discussions, user-review corpora, product documentation, and semiconductor-network research before changing the product. This is a self-selected VoC sample, not a statistically representative survey.
Qualitative, self-selected public VoC sample. Evidence links identify recurring workflow problems; counts are not a market survey or sentiment score.
Users repeatedly describe seat pricing, gated trials, export credits, and API tiers as barriers to basic screening and collaboration.
Keep company, round, investor, and source records readable without login and publish filterable JSON and CSV alongside the interface.
Reviewers and practitioners report missing young companies, regional gaps, and stale company or workforce fields across private-market databases.
Show the latest indexed source date, evidence class, geography, and revision state on every profile; preserve the last validated record when a check fails and never imply that source age proves current operations.
Users struggle to reconcile contradictory round totals, valuation bases, changing cumulative values, and records whose provenance is difficult to inspect.
Attach the controlling source, announcement date, native currency, transaction type, amount qualifier, and revision note to every capital fact.
Company, round, investor, founder, technology, customer, and supplier records are often difficult to traverse as one evidence-backed graph.
Normalize startup-to-round-to-investor relationships, support reverse investor lookup, and expose co-investor and sector paths without inferring ownership or allocation.
Dense filters can be hard to learn, while shallow search forces users to repeat work across databases, websites, and spreadsheets.
Search company, founder, investor, technology, application, geography, stage, and source text together; keep filters in the URL and explain why each result matched.
Composite scores, tags, launch votes, and community attention are easy to overread when their construction or manipulation controls are hidden.
Keep launches, community attention, hiring, and articles as dated discovery signals; never turn them into an investment-quality score or financing fact.
A stale or wrong private-company record persists when reporting an issue requires leaving the workflow or negotiating account access.
Place a source-suggestion and data-correction action on each profile, carrying the company and current page into a direct message to VLSI Korea.
Corrections and feature requests go directly to VLSI Korea with the page context and any public source you provide.
Attach a public source when possible. Feedback is delivered to VLSI Korea; this page does not keep a public copy.
