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Y Combinator

Y Combinator

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Lens Rankings

Venture Capital

#18 0.009367 Y Combinator
#112 0.001189 My Climate Journey
#339 0.000418 Initialized Capital
#744 0.000173 Khosla Ventures
#1221 0.000115 A16Z
#1312 0.000020 Index Ventures
#2739 0.000001 Standard Crypto
#2783 0.000001 Founders Fund
#3218 0.000001 Accel
#3591 0.000001 Sequioa
#5923 0.000000 Bessemer
#6417 0.000000 Sutter Hill Ventures
#6775 0.000000 Benchmark Capital
#6920 0.000000 Homebrew
#7792 0.000000 Village Global

Culture and Political Economy

#714 0.000208 Bismark Analysis
#775 0.000230 Heterodox Academy
#923 0.000170 Progress Studies
#940 0.000132 The Long Now Foundation
#963 0.000120 Rationality
#1315 0.000094 Works in Progress
#1329 0.000061 Effective Altruism
#2718 0.000001 Schumacher Circle
#2765 0.000001 Fair Vote
#2870 0.000001 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#2902 0.000001 Extinction Rebellion
#2942 0.000001 Existential Risks
#2973 0.000001 Claremont Institute
#2974 0.000001 Ecosocialism
#3020 0.000001 Sierra Clib
#3250 0.000001 350.org
#3427 0.000001 Environmental Defense Fund
#4053 0.000001 Climate Solutions
#5305 0.000010 Persuasion Community
#5745 0.000000 Environmental Journalists
#6720 0.000000 Social Epistemology
#6870 0.000000 RadicalxChange
#7157 0.000000 Populist Libertarians
#7333 0.000013 Arnold Kling's Fantasy Intellectual Teams
#7795 0.000000 Black Lives Matter
#7899 0.000006 Harper's Open Letter
#7961 0.000005 Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism
#8399 0.000000 EFF
#9465 0.000000 Anarachists

Crypto

#1226 0.000062 Crypto Angels
#1385 0.000090 Crypto VC
#2763 0.000001 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#2864 0.000001 Crypto Political Economy
#2933 0.000001 Polkadot
#3441 0.000026 IDEO Founder Collective
#3811 0.000009 Crypto Investing
#5394 0.000002 Decentralized Web
#5530 0.000000 Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
#6417 0.000000 Crypto Journalists
#6461 0.000000 Cosmos
#7002 0.000003 Crypto Infrastructure
#7401 0.000000 Public Goods Funding
#7707 0.000000 Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
#7752 0.000001 Ethereum

Think Tanks

#1553 0.000085 Niskanen Center
#2203 0.000067 Mercatus Center
#3149 0.000001 RAND Corporation
#3200 0.000001 Belfer Center
#3391 0.000001 Urban Institute
#3612 0.000001 Heritage Foundation
#4040 0.000001 Cato Institute
#5027 0.000001 Atlantic Council
#6994 0.000000 Asia Society Policy Institute
#7488 0.000000 Berggruen Institute
#8527 0.000000 Earth Institute
#9226 0.000000 Columbia SIPA Center for Energy Policy

Journalism

#1553 0.000085 Foreign Policy
#3074 0.000001 The Information
#3589 0.000001 Stat News
#3909 0.000001 The Verge
#4520 0.000001 The Economist
#5121 0.000001 The Daily Beast
#5125 0.000001 CNBC
#5272 0.000000 OANN
#5290 0.000000 Newsmax
#5935 0.000001 Wired
#6384 0.000001 Financial Times
#6928 0.000001 BuzzFeed
#7541 0.000001 The Los Angeles Times
#7548 0.000000 The Intercept
#8388 0.000001 Techcrunch
#8401 0.000001 VICE
#8665 0.000000 Palladium Magazine

Science

#1471 0.000070 Biotech
#3283 0.000001 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#3691 0.000001 Philosophy Twitter
#5350 0.000001 Epidimiology Twitter
#8301 0.000000 Epidemiology Journalism

Informal Community

#4465 0.000027 Founders

Software Engineering

#2872 0.000001 Rust
#5431 0.000000 Zig

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