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?

Stewart Butterfield

Stewart Butterfield

@stewart

Lens Rankings

Venture Capital

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#354 0.000409 A16Z
#371 0.000382 Initialized Capital
#467 0.000380 Homebrew
#649 0.000137 Index Ventures
#705 0.000159 Y Combinator
#810 0.000067 Sequioa
#813 0.000059 Bessemer
#1005 0.000194 My Climate Journey
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#1751 0.000082 Sutter Hill Ventures
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#4883 0.000001 Founders Fund
#5292 0.000001 Accel
#9398 0.000000 Village Global

Crypto

#288 0.000655 Public Goods Funding
#427 0.000356 Ethereum
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#2927 0.000023 Crypto Infrastructure
#3198 0.000029 IDEO Founder Collective
#4875 0.000001 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
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#5040 0.000001 Polkadot
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#8150 0.000000 Cosmos
#9504 0.000000 Decentralized Finance (DeFi)

Informal Community

#182 0.000497 Founders

Journalism

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#3157 0.000037 Recode
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#9394 0.000001 The Los Angeles Times
#9889 0.000010 Bloomberg Opinion

Culture and Political Economy

#1322 0.000113 Social Epistemology
#1389 0.000108 Progress Studies
#1779 0.000060 The Long Now Foundation
#2337 0.000040 Rationality
#4832 0.000001 Schumacher Circle
#4878 0.000001 Fair Vote
#4973 0.000001 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#5013 0.000001 Extinction Rebellion
#5049 0.000001 Claremont Institute
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#8860 0.000000 Populist Libertarians
#8939 0.000000 Works in Progress
#9419 0.000000 Effective Altruism
#9438 0.000000 Black Lives Matter

Think Tanks

#2797 0.000047 Mercatus Center
#5229 0.000001 RAND Corporation
#5284 0.000001 Belfer Center
#5470 0.000001 Urban Institute
#5684 0.000001 Heritage Foundation
#6063 0.000001 Cato Institute
#7008 0.000001 Atlantic Council
#7427 0.000002 Adam Smith Institute
#9007 0.000000 Asia Society Policy Institute
#9127 0.000000 Berggruen Institute

Science

#5375 0.000001 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#5783 0.000001 Philosophy Twitter
#7339 0.000001 Epidimiology Twitter
#9881 0.000000 Epidemiology Journalism

Software Engineering

#4963 0.000001 Rust
#7184 0.000000 Zig

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