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?

JD Ross

JD Ross

@justindross

Lens Rankings

Venture Capital

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#71 0.001935 Village Global
#71 0.001599 Founders Fund
#289 0.000471 Initialized Capital
#490 0.000081 Accel
#721 0.000203 A16Z
#771 0.000128 Y Combinator
#897 0.000202 Sutter Hill Ventures
#1785 0.000100 Homebrew
#2602 0.000020 Benchmark Capital
#3339 0.000001 Standard Crypto
#4173 0.000001 Sequioa
#4486 0.000001 Bessemer
#4812 0.000001 My Climate Journey
#5019 0.000001 Index Ventures

Crypto

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#466 0.000405 Public Goods Funding
#603 0.000244 Crypto VC
#668 0.000220 Ethereum
#1876 0.000025 Cosmos
#2395 0.000022 Crypto Investing
#3363 0.000001 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#3457 0.000001 Crypto Political Economy
#3530 0.000001 Polkadot
#4076 0.000001 Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
#5012 0.000001 Crypto Angels
#5038 0.000001 Crypto Journalists
#5955 0.000007 IDEO Founder Collective
#6230 0.000001 Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
#8083 0.000001 Decentralized Web

Journalism

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#8921 0.000001 VICE

Culture and Political Economy

#737 0.000201 Bismark Analysis
#1917 0.000054 The Long Now Foundation
#2142 0.000064 Progress Studies
#3318 0.000001 Schumacher Circle
#3364 0.000001 Fair Vote
#3466 0.000001 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#3500 0.000001 Extinction Rebellion
#3541 0.000001 Existential Risks
#3555 0.000001 Claremont Institute
#3567 0.000001 Ecosocialism
#3616 0.000001 Sierra Clib
#3845 0.000001 350.org
#4021 0.000001 Environmental Defense Fund
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#5758 0.000001 Populist Libertarians
#5962 0.000001 Works in Progress
#6407 0.000001 Effective Altruism
#6434 0.000001 Black Lives Matter
#6757 0.000015 Arnold Kling's Fantasy Intellectual Teams
#7063 0.000001 EFF
#7255 0.000002 Rationality
#8155 0.000001 Anarachists
#8862 0.000001 Moderate Conservatism
#9123 0.000001 Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)

Informal Community

#1738 0.000079 Founders

Science

#3871 0.000001 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#4283 0.000001 Philosophy Twitter
#5632 0.000011 Biotech
#5922 0.000001 Epidimiology Twitter
#7057 0.000001 Epidemiology Journalism

Think Tanks

#3739 0.000001 RAND Corporation
#3794 0.000001 Belfer Center
#3977 0.000001 Urban Institute
#4196 0.000001 Heritage Foundation
#4614 0.000001 Cato Institute
#5123 0.000003 Niskanen Center
#5242 0.000001 Asia Society Policy Institute
#5586 0.000001 Atlantic Council
#6124 0.000001 Berggruen Institute
#7179 0.000001 Earth Institute
#7912 0.000001 Columbia SIPA Center for Energy Policy

Software Engineering

#3464 0.000001 Rust
#3957 0.000001 Zig

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