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?

Chamath Palihapitiya

Chamath Palihapitiya

@chamath

Lens Rankings

Venture Capital

#36 0.002739 Benchmark Capital
#50 0.003657 Accel
#67 0.001876 Khosla Ventures
#130 0.001058 My Climate Journey
#299 0.000623 Y Combinator
#481 0.000309 A16Z
#515 0.000373 Sutter Hill Ventures
#522 0.000278 Initialized Capital
#537 0.000003 Standard Crypto
#574 0.000157 Index Ventures
#616 0.000003 Founders Fund
#764 0.000082 Sequioa
#785 0.000202 Village Global
#1828 0.000098 Homebrew
#2189 0.000002 Bessemer

Crypto

#97 0.001782 Crypto Angels
#129 0.001286 Crypto Journalists
#230 0.000426 Cosmos
#251 0.000591 Crypto VC
#305 0.000400 Crypto Investing
#357 0.000396 IDEO Founder Collective
#549 0.000003 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#605 0.000166 Decentralized Web
#652 0.000135 Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
#698 0.000003 Crypto Political Economy
#740 0.000003 Polkadot
#1495 0.000058 Crypto Infrastructure
#1759 0.000002 Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
#2633 0.000004 Public Goods Funding
#4269 0.000002 Ethereum

Journalism

#176 0.000838 The Information
#446 0.000445 Wired
#1004 0.000168 Financial Times
#1319 0.000068 Palladium Magazine
#1419 0.000002 Newsmax
#1426 0.000002 OANN
#1472 0.000003 Stat News
#1857 0.000003 The Verge
#2426 0.000003 The Economist
#2439 0.000007 Techcrunch
#2587 0.000048 Recode
#2958 0.000044 Bloomberg Opinion
#3035 0.000003 CNBC
#3201 0.000003 The Daily Beast
#3934 0.000006 Foreign Policy
#4470 0.000002 The Intercept
#4990 0.000003 Reuters
#5031 0.000003 BuzzFeed
#5332 0.000015 Wall Street Journal
#5468 0.000009 VICE
#5582 0.000003 The Los Angeles Times
#5775 0.000016 Ars Technica
#8056 0.000003 Washington Post
#8639 0.000002 The Dispatch

Think Tanks

#740 0.000220 Mercatus Center
#984 0.000003 RAND Corporation
#1044 0.000003 Belfer Center
#1242 0.000003 Urban Institute
#1457 0.000003 Heritage Foundation
#1947 0.000003 Cato Institute
#2222 0.000002 Asia Society Policy Institute
#2986 0.000003 Atlantic Council
#3631 0.000006 Adam Smith Institute
#3934 0.000006 Niskanen Center
#4007 0.000002 Berggruen Institute
#4696 0.000002 Earth Institute
#5635 0.000003 Hudson Institute
#5921 0.000002 Columbia SIPA Center for Energy Policy
#6617 0.000002 Eurasia Group
#7678 0.000002 Peterson Institute for International Economics
#9112 0.000002 Hoover Institution

Culture and Political Economy

#502 0.000003 Schumacher Circle
#505 0.000189 Effective Altruism
#551 0.000003 Fair Vote
#681 0.000003 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#700 0.000003 Extinction Rebellion
#738 0.000003 Existential Risks
#798 0.000003 Claremont Institute
#818 0.000003 Ecosocialism
#845 0.000003 Sierra Clib
#862 0.000185 Progress Studies
#1062 0.000003 350.org
#1108 0.000119 RadicalxChange
#1250 0.000003 Environmental Defense Fund
#1933 0.000061 Social Epistemology
#2156 0.000002 Environmental Journalists
#2248 0.000002 Climate Solutions
#2706 0.000002 Bismark Analysis
#3102 0.000040 Arnold Kling's Fantasy Intellectual Teams
#3296 0.000022 Rationality
#3469 0.000002 Heterodox Academy
#3505 0.000002 Populist Libertarians
#3915 0.000002 Works in Progress
#4349 0.000002 Black Lives Matter
#5050 0.000002 EFF
#5331 0.000010 Harper's Open Letter
#5387 0.000002 Anarachists
#6939 0.000002 Moderate Conservatism
#7075 0.000002 Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)
#7460 0.000002 Degrowth
#9838 0.000002 The Long Now Foundation

Informal Community

#1046 0.000128 Founders

Science

#947 0.000124 Biotech
#1115 0.000003 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#1461 0.000003 Philosophy Twitter
#3284 0.000003 Epidimiology Twitter
#5064 0.000002 Epidemiology Journalism
#9779 0.000003 EconTwitter

system

#7379 0.000019 Baseline

Software Engineering

#681 0.000003 Rust
#1589 0.000002 Zig

Automatically Detected Communities