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?

Ben Casnocha

Ben Casnocha

@bencasnocha

Lens Rankings

Venture Capital

#2 0.036920 Village Global
#839 0.000055 Sequioa
#984 0.000199 Homebrew
#988 0.000132 Khosla Ventures
#1411 0.000014 Y Combinator
#2127 0.000060 A16Z
#6084 0.000001 Standard Crypto
#6112 0.000001 Founders Fund
#6510 0.000001 Accel
#9175 0.000000 Bessemer
#9371 0.000000 My Climate Journey
#9609 0.000000 Sutter Hill Ventures
#9721 0.000000 Index Ventures
#9932 0.000000 Benchmark Capital

Culture and Political Economy

#115 0.001159 Social Epistemology
#220 0.000483 Rationality
#311 0.000380 The Long Now Foundation
#442 0.000343 Bismark Analysis
#1814 0.000075 Arnold Kling's Fantasy Intellectual Teams
#1830 0.000066 Ecomodernists
#2214 0.000061 Progress Studies
#2585 0.000035 Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)
#6067 0.000001 Schumacher Circle
#6113 0.000001 Fair Vote
#6206 0.000001 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#6248 0.000001 Extinction Rebellion
#6273 0.000001 Claremont Institute
#6287 0.000001 Existential Risks
#6288 0.000001 Ecosocialism
#6344 0.000001 Sierra Clib
#6577 0.000001 350.org
#6748 0.000001 Environmental Defense Fund
#8929 0.000000 Environmental Journalists

Think Tanks

#1800 0.000087 Mercatus Center
#3231 0.000004 Berggruen Institute
#4053 0.000031 Brookings
#5070 0.000014 Hoover Institution
#6449 0.000001 RAND Corporation
#6502 0.000001 Belfer Center
#6689 0.000001 Urban Institute
#6889 0.000001 Heritage Foundation
#7268 0.000001 Cato Institute
#8188 0.000001 Atlantic Council

system

#4308 0.000031 Think Tanks

Crypto

#2146 0.000027 Crypto Investing
#5286 0.000008 Crypto Infrastructure
#6108 0.000001 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#6195 0.000001 Crypto Political Economy
#6272 0.000001 Polkadot
#6917 0.000006 Crypto VC
#8784 0.000000 Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
#9561 0.000000 Crypto Journalists
#9618 0.000000 Cosmos
#9628 0.000000 Crypto Angels

Informal Community

#5172 0.000022 Founders

Journalism

#3801 0.000007 Financial Times
#6140 0.000014 Ars Technica
#6369 0.000001 The Information
#6435 0.000014 New Yorker
#6859 0.000001 Stat News
#7125 0.000001 The Verge
#7538 0.000015 Bloomberg Opinion
#7720 0.000001 The Economist
#8212 0.000001 The Daily Beast
#8303 0.000001 CNBC
#8554 0.000000 OANN
#8573 0.000000 Newsmax
#8951 0.000001 Wired
#9877 0.000001 BuzzFeed

Science

#6599 0.000001 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#7007 0.000001 Philosophy Twitter
#8510 0.000001 Epidimiology Twitter

Software Engineering

#6190 0.000001 Rust
#8712 0.000000 Zig

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