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?

Ian Kar

Ian Kar

@iankar_

Lens Rankings

Venture Capital

#61 0.001854 Homebrew
#125 0.000550 Founders Fund
#161 0.000937 Khosla Ventures
#170 0.000537 Index Ventures
#245 0.000383 Bessemer
#253 0.000512 A16Z
#348 0.000195 Accel
#429 0.000395 Y Combinator
#449 0.000348 Village Global
#484 0.000315 Benchmark Capital
#813 0.000002 Standard Crypto
#1730 0.000002 Sequioa
#2653 0.000002 My Climate Journey
#2861 0.000002 Sutter Hill Ventures
#4599 0.000002 Initialized Capital

Journalism

#115 0.001175 Techcrunch
#638 0.000215 Recode
#1194 0.000002 The Information
#1430 0.000002 Newsmax
#1436 0.000002 OANN
#1495 0.000032 CNBC
#1738 0.000002 Stat News
#1905 0.000009 Reuters
#2099 0.000002 The Verge
#2684 0.000002 The Economist
#2826 0.000045 Wall Street Journal
#3439 0.000002 The Daily Beast
#3860 0.000013 BuzzFeed
#4316 0.000002 Wired
#4480 0.000002 The Intercept
#4562 0.000002 Financial Times
#5460 0.000002 Palladium Magazine
#5872 0.000002 The Los Angeles Times
#6630 0.000002 Foreign Policy
#6757 0.000002 VICE
#8270 0.000008 Ars Technica
#8656 0.000002 The Dispatch
#8903 0.000002 Washington Post

Crypto

#325 0.000319 Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
#363 0.000361 Crypto Angels
#520 0.000278 Crypto Journalists
#827 0.000002 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#940 0.000068 Cosmos
#964 0.000002 Crypto Political Economy
#1017 0.000002 Polkadot
#1120 0.000109 IDEO Founder Collective
#1161 0.000111 Crypto VC
#1409 0.000063 Crypto Infrastructure
#2226 0.000025 Crypto Investing
#2795 0.000011 Decentralized Web
#3075 0.000003 Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
#3501 0.000002 Public Goods Funding
#4346 0.000002 Ethereum

Culture and Political Economy

#781 0.000002 Schumacher Circle
#829 0.000002 Fair Vote
#952 0.000002 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#977 0.000002 Extinction Rebellion
#1014 0.000002 Existential Risks
#1071 0.000002 Claremont Institute
#1089 0.000002 Ecosocialism
#1114 0.000002 Sierra Clib
#1333 0.000002 350.org
#1522 0.000002 Environmental Defense Fund
#2164 0.000002 Environmental Journalists
#2538 0.000002 Climate Solutions
#2647 0.000034 The Long Now Foundation
#2713 0.000002 Bismark Analysis
#2872 0.000039 Progress Studies
#3203 0.000002 RadicalxChange
#3479 0.000002 Heterodox Academy
#3514 0.000002 Populist Libertarians
#3527 0.000002 Social Epistemology
#3923 0.000002 Works in Progress
#4341 0.000002 Effective Altruism
#4357 0.000002 Black Lives Matter
#5059 0.000002 EFF
#5405 0.000002 Anarachists
#5784 0.000007 Rationality
#6951 0.000002 Moderate Conservatism
#7088 0.000002 Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)
#7478 0.000002 Degrowth

system

#6639 0.000023 Baseline
#9347 0.000026 Reality-Based Community

Informal Community

#5029 0.000023 Founders

Think Tanks

#1254 0.000002 RAND Corporation
#1314 0.000002 Belfer Center
#1509 0.000002 Urban Institute
#1743 0.000002 Heritage Foundation
#2209 0.000002 Cato Institute
#2235 0.000002 Asia Society Policy Institute
#2495 0.000011 Adam Smith Institute
#3237 0.000002 Atlantic Council
#4033 0.000002 Berggruen Institute
#4714 0.000002 Earth Institute
#5279 0.000004 Hudson Institute
#5929 0.000002 Columbia SIPA Center for Energy Policy
#6630 0.000002 Niskanen Center
#6649 0.000002 Eurasia Group
#7691 0.000002 Peterson Institute for International Economics
#9133 0.000002 Hoover Institution
#9996 0.000003 Mercatus Center

Science

#1383 0.000002 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#1742 0.000002 Philosophy Twitter
#3570 0.000002 Epidimiology Twitter
#5074 0.000002 Epidemiology Journalism
#8116 0.000002 Biotech

Software Engineering

#957 0.000002 Rust
#1600 0.000002 Zig

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