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?

Bill Gurley

Bill Gurley

@bgurley

abovethecrowd.com

VC @benchmark, Investor: @grubhub, @zillow, @uber, @stitchfix, @nextdoor, @glassdoor, @hacker0x01, @solvhealth, @roverdotcom, @goodeggs, @instawork

478133 followers

Lens Rankings

Venture Capital

#1 0.177697 Benchmark Capital
#31 0.003687 Khosla Ventures
#34 0.005118 Founders Fund
#81 0.001289 Index Ventures
#135 0.001403 Sequioa
#139 0.000832 A16Z
#189 0.000907 Sutter Hill Ventures
#195 0.000632 Initialized Capital
#305 0.000481 Village Global
#332 0.000477 My Climate Journey
#509 0.000348 Homebrew
#518 0.000076 Accel
#538 0.000003 Standard Crypto
#637 0.000203 Y Combinator
#808 0.000061 Bessemer

Crypto

#144 0.000986 Crypto VC
#189 0.000747 IDEO Founder Collective
#462 0.000275 Crypto Angels
#550 0.000003 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#699 0.000003 Crypto Political Economy
#741 0.000003 Polkadot
#779 0.000174 Crypto Journalists
#935 0.000093 Crypto Investing
#1804 0.000002 Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
#2966 0.000002 Cosmos
#3556 0.000002 Public Goods Funding
#3699 0.000002 Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
#4104 0.000003 Decentralized Web
#4179 0.000013 Crypto Infrastructure
#4848 0.000002 Ethereum

Journalism

#156 0.000732 Recode
#691 0.000180 Bloomberg Opinion
#931 0.000003 The Information
#1472 0.000002 Newsmax
#1473 0.000003 Stat News
#1479 0.000002 OANN
#1600 0.000017 Techcrunch
#1637 0.000025 CNBC
#1858 0.000003 The Verge
#2427 0.000003 The Economist
#3202 0.000003 The Daily Beast
#4098 0.000003 Wired
#4326 0.000003 Financial Times
#4507 0.000002 The Intercept
#5032 0.000003 BuzzFeed
#5497 0.000002 Palladium Magazine
#5583 0.000003 The Los Angeles Times
#6217 0.000002 Reuters
#6434 0.000013 Ars Technica
#6513 0.000003 VICE
#6703 0.000002 Foreign Policy
#8058 0.000003 Washington Post
#8263 0.000010 New Yorker
#8693 0.000003 Wall Street Journal
#8734 0.000002 The Dispatch

Culture and Political Economy

#503 0.000003 Schumacher Circle
#552 0.000003 Fair Vote
#574 0.000276 Progress Studies
#682 0.000003 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#701 0.000003 Extinction Rebellion
#739 0.000003 Existential Risks
#799 0.000003 Claremont Institute
#819 0.000003 Ecosocialism
#846 0.000003 Sierra Clib
#939 0.000149 RadicalxChange
#996 0.000090 Effective Altruism
#1063 0.000003 350.org
#1193 0.000104 Bismark Analysis
#1251 0.000003 Environmental Defense Fund
#1520 0.000075 The Long Now Foundation
#1654 0.000069 Heterodox Academy
#2198 0.000002 Environmental Journalists
#2235 0.000059 Arnold Kling's Fantasy Intellectual Teams
#2450 0.000002 Climate Solutions
#3554 0.000002 Populist Libertarians
#3556 0.000002 Social Epistemology
#3894 0.000016 Harper's Open Letter
#3958 0.000002 Works in Progress
#4390 0.000002 Black Lives Matter
#5086 0.000002 EFF
#5472 0.000002 Anarachists
#6174 0.000006 Rationality
#6993 0.000002 Moderate Conservatism
#7120 0.000002 Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)
#7535 0.000002 Degrowth
#8745 0.000005 Persuasion Community

Think Tanks

#619 0.000260 Mercatus Center
#985 0.000003 RAND Corporation
#1045 0.000003 Belfer Center
#1243 0.000003 Urban Institute
#1458 0.000003 Heritage Foundation
#1948 0.000003 Cato Institute
#2298 0.000002 Asia Society Policy Institute
#2987 0.000003 Atlantic Council
#4065 0.000002 Berggruen Institute
#4763 0.000002 Earth Institute
#5189 0.000004 Adam Smith Institute
#5965 0.000002 Columbia SIPA Center for Energy Policy
#6703 0.000002 Niskanen Center
#6722 0.000002 Eurasia Group
#7032 0.000002 Hudson Institute
#7733 0.000002 Peterson Institute for International Economics
#9188 0.000002 Hoover Institution

Informal Community

#2872 0.000045 Founders

Science

#1116 0.000003 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#1462 0.000003 Philosophy Twitter
#2824 0.000032 Biotech
#3285 0.000003 Epidimiology Twitter
#5108 0.000002 Epidemiology Journalism
#9783 0.000003 EconTwitter

Software Engineering

#682 0.000003 Rust
#1641 0.000002 Zig

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