Project Lens is an alpha-level demo. The data sets are incomplete and imbalanced and algorithm parameters are being tuned. Results should thus be considered directional. Want to provide feedback, request features, or collaborate?

Benedict Evans

Benedict Evans

@benedictevans

ben-evans.com

Trying to work out what's going on, and what happens next. Mostly tech. Past lives in equity research, strategy and venture capital. Working on new things.

316983 followers

Lens Rankings

Venture Capital

#13 0.005423 A16Z
#15 0.008926 Founders Fund
#24 0.004504 Khosla Ventures
#52 0.003636 Accel
#66 0.001832 Benchmark Capital
#81 0.001376 Initialized Capital
#86 0.001645 Sutter Hill Ventures
#138 0.001382 Sequioa
#155 0.000907 My Climate Journey
#158 0.000006 Standard Crypto
#178 0.000804 Village Global
#226 0.000709 Homebrew
#377 0.000461 Y Combinator
#646 0.000138 Index Ventures
#949 0.000047 Bessemer

Crypto

#15 0.005664 Crypto VC
#117 0.001135 IDEO Founder Collective
#162 0.000006 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#173 0.000973 Public Goods Funding
#255 0.000535 Ethereum
#332 0.000006 Crypto Political Economy
#358 0.000372 Crypto Infrastructure
#360 0.000006 Polkadot
#531 0.000145 Cosmos
#774 0.000126 Crypto Investing
#871 0.000095 Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
#921 0.000078 Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
#1490 0.000042 Crypto Angels
#1906 0.000030 Decentralized Web
#2526 0.000004 Crypto Journalists

Journalism

#53 0.003884 The Information
#166 0.000943 Wired
#181 0.000780 Techcrunch
#203 0.000836 The Economist
#207 0.000478 Bloomberg Opinion
#421 0.000325 Recode
#652 0.000193 Ars Technica
#735 0.000140 Palladium Magazine
#762 0.000257 Financial Times
#850 0.000147 New Yorker
#949 0.000141 The Atlantic
#949 0.000004 Newsmax
#965 0.000004 OANN
#1084 0.000006 Stat News
#1525 0.000006 The Verge
#1944 0.000049 Foreign Policy
#2173 0.000008 Reuters
#2569 0.000006 CNBC
#2770 0.000006 The Daily Beast
#3211 0.000018 Washington Post
#4178 0.000004 The Intercept
#4526 0.000006 BuzzFeed
#4979 0.000006 The Los Angeles Times
#5483 0.000014 Wall Street Journal
#5852 0.000006 VICE
#7070 0.000005 The New York Post
#7098 0.000013 The New York Times
#7477 0.000004 The Dispatch

Culture and Political Economy

#46 0.002649 Social Epistemology
#47 0.002294 Progress Studies
#80 0.001290 The Long Now Foundation
#97 0.001285 Works in Progress
#104 0.001120 Rationality
#115 0.000006 Schumacher Circle
#165 0.000006 Fair Vote
#300 0.000006 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#316 0.000006 Extinction Rebellion
#353 0.000006 Existential Risks
#413 0.000269 Arnold Kling's Fantasy Intellectual Teams
#426 0.000006 Claremont Institute
#437 0.000228 Effective Altruism
#447 0.000006 Ecosocialism
#469 0.000006 Sierra Clib
#552 0.000273 Bismark Analysis
#685 0.000006 350.org
#877 0.000006 Environmental Defense Fund
#967 0.000125 Ecomodernists
#1040 0.000131 RadicalxChange
#1133 0.000105 Persuasion Community
#1772 0.000004 Environmental Journalists
#1844 0.000005 Climate Solutions
#2379 0.000031 Harper's Open Letter
#2976 0.000004 Populist Libertarians
#3110 0.000004 Heterodox Academy
#3972 0.000004 Black Lives Matter
#4075 0.000004 Anarachists
#4689 0.000004 EFF
#6047 0.000009 Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism
#6164 0.000004 Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)
#6315 0.000004 Moderate Conservatism
#6469 0.000004 Degrowth

Think Tanks

#126 0.001003 Mercatus Center
#567 0.000089 Eurasia Group
#618 0.000006 RAND Corporation
#677 0.000006 Belfer Center
#884 0.000006 Urban Institute
#1076 0.000006 Heritage Foundation
#1235 0.000058 Adam Smith Institute
#1516 0.000004 Asia Society Policy Institute
#1536 0.000006 Cato Institute
#1944 0.000049 Niskanen Center
#2024 0.000054 Hoover Institution
#2593 0.000006 Atlantic Council
#2830 0.000050 American Enterprise Institute
#2830 0.000050 National Bureau of Economic Research
#3378 0.000004 Berggruen Institute
#3722 0.000031 Council on Foreign Relations
#3797 0.000004 Earth Institute
#4171 0.000007 Hudson Institute
#4821 0.000015 Peterson Institute for International Economics
#5601 0.000004 Columbia SIPA Center for Energy Policy
#6418 0.000017 Brookings

Informal Community

#273 0.000355 Founders

system

#2267 0.000061 Think Tanks
#2403 0.000083 Reality-Based Community
#4395 0.000066 Baseline

Science

#744 0.000006 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#1053 0.000006 Philosophy Twitter
#2072 0.000046 Biotech
#2734 0.000006 Epidimiology Twitter
#3626 0.000023 EconTwitter
#4277 0.000004 Epidemiology Journalism
#8145 0.000006 ClimateTwitter

Software Engineering

#298 0.000006 Rust
#1121 0.000004 Zig

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