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?

Laura Behrens Wu

Laura Behrens Wu

@LauraBehrensWu

Lens Rankings

Venture Capital

#28 0.005574 Y Combinator
#77 0.002203 Sequioa
#107 0.000823 Bessemer
#351 0.000422 Village Global
#703 0.000207 A16Z
#1942 0.000086 Homebrew
#7661 0.000000 Standard Crypto
#7685 0.000000 Founders Fund
#8078 0.000000 Accel

Culture and Political Economy

#69 0.001715 Progress Studies
#88 0.001174 The Long Now Foundation
#1753 0.000073 Social Epistemology
#1950 0.000069 Arnold Kling's Fantasy Intellectual Teams
#2756 0.000031 Rationality
#7085 0.000009 Ecomodernists
#7645 0.000000 Schumacher Circle
#7689 0.000000 Fair Vote
#7773 0.000000 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#7824 0.000000 Extinction Rebellion
#7842 0.000000 Claremont Institute
#7849 0.000000 Ecosocialism
#7861 0.000000 Existential Risks
#7909 0.000000 Sierra Clib
#8145 0.000000 350.org
#8317 0.000000 Environmental Defense Fund

Crypto

#216 0.000682 Crypto VC
#1101 0.000114 Public Goods Funding
#1388 0.000064 Crypto Infrastructure
#1575 0.000062 Ethereum
#1802 0.000023 Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
#2461 0.000021 Crypto Investing
#2569 0.000015 Decentralized Web
#7686 0.000000 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#7764 0.000000 Crypto Political Economy
#7845 0.000000 Polkadot

Think Tanks

#358 0.000436 Mercatus Center
#8005 0.000000 RAND Corporation
#8066 0.000000 Belfer Center
#8255 0.000000 Urban Institute
#8434 0.000000 Heritage Foundation
#8804 0.000000 Cato Institute
#9701 0.000000 Atlantic Council

Informal Community

#922 0.000144 Founders

Journalism

#1851 0.000072 Bloomberg Opinion
#5499 0.000013 Recode
#7928 0.000000 The Information
#8407 0.000000 Stat News
#8657 0.000000 The Verge
#9247 0.000000 The Economist
#9705 0.000000 The Daily Beast
#9822 0.000000 CNBC
#9911 0.000000 OANN
#9935 0.000000 Newsmax

Science

#3506 0.000024 Biotech
#8167 0.000000 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#8576 0.000000 Philosophy Twitter

Software Engineering

#7762 0.000000 Rust

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