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?

Jesse Walden

Jesse Walden

@jessewldn

variant.fund

founder/investor @variantfund. via @a16z, @spotify, @mediachain_, @coolmanagers.

21724 followers

Lens Rankings

Venture Capital

#20 0.004727 A16Z
#29 0.010429 Standard Crypto
#453 0.000384 My Climate Journey
#1174 0.000124 Village Global
#2725 0.000001 Founders Fund
#3159 0.000001 Accel
#3535 0.000001 Sequioa
#4000 0.000001 Y Combinator
#4515 0.000001 Bessemer
#5049 0.000001 Index Ventures
#5059 0.000001 Sutter Hill Ventures
#5425 0.000001 Benchmark Capital
#5620 0.000001 Homebrew
#6764 0.000001 Initialized Capital
#7600 0.000001 Khosla Ventures

Crypto

#43 0.002422 Crypto VC
#46 0.002455 Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
#73 0.001683 IDEO Founder Collective
#104 0.001403 Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
#174 0.000918 Crypto Angels
#202 0.000746 Crypto Journalists
#245 0.000524 Crypto Investing
#257 0.000515 Decentralized Web
#260 0.000364 Cosmos
#272 0.000505 Crypto Infrastructure
#1791 0.000026 Public Goods Funding
#2361 0.000022 Ethereum
#2704 0.000001 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#2806 0.000001 Crypto Political Economy
#2875 0.000001 Polkadot

Culture and Political Economy

#221 0.000585 RadicalxChange
#1098 0.000079 Effective Altruism
#2659 0.000001 Schumacher Circle
#2706 0.000001 Fair Vote
#2812 0.000001 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#2843 0.000001 Extinction Rebellion
#2883 0.000001 Existential Risks
#2914 0.000001 Claremont Institute
#2915 0.000001 Ecosocialism
#2962 0.000001 Sierra Clib
#3191 0.000001 350.org
#3369 0.000001 Environmental Defense Fund
#4365 0.000001 Environmental Journalists
#4524 0.000001 Climate Solutions
#4871 0.000001 Bismark Analysis
#5446 0.000001 Social Epistemology
#5610 0.000001 Heterodox Academy
#5785 0.000001 Populist Libertarians
#5827 0.000005 Progress Studies
#5991 0.000001 Works in Progress
#6460 0.000001 Black Lives Matter
#7089 0.000001 EFF
#8185 0.000001 Anarachists
#8880 0.000001 Moderate Conservatism
#9147 0.000001 Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)

Journalism

#536 0.000317 The Verge
#1186 0.000080 Palladium Magazine
#3015 0.000001 The Information
#3531 0.000001 Stat News
#3827 0.000001 OANN
#3844 0.000001 Newsmax
#4462 0.000001 The Economist
#5068 0.000001 The Daily Beast
#5069 0.000001 CNBC
#5880 0.000001 Wired
#6303 0.000001 The Intercept
#6328 0.000001 Financial Times
#6875 0.000001 BuzzFeed
#7485 0.000001 The Los Angeles Times
#8344 0.000001 VICE

Informal Community

#1575 0.000084 Founders

Science

#3224 0.000001 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#3634 0.000001 Philosophy Twitter
#5296 0.000001 Epidimiology Twitter
#7085 0.000001 Epidemiology Journalism
#9833 0.000001 Biotech

Software Engineering

#2814 0.000001 Rust
#3986 0.000001 Zig

Think Tanks

#3093 0.000001 RAND Corporation
#3141 0.000001 Belfer Center
#3333 0.000001 Urban Institute
#3556 0.000001 Heritage Foundation
#3990 0.000001 Cato Institute
#4970 0.000001 Atlantic Council
#5282 0.000001 Asia Society Policy Institute
#6152 0.000001 Berggruen Institute
#7205 0.000001 Earth Institute
#7940 0.000001 Columbia SIPA Center for Energy Policy

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