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?

Joseph Flaherty

Joseph Flaherty

@josephflaherty

foundercollective.com

Content at @fcollective, Seed VC that backed Uber, Airtable, SeatGeek, Cruise, PillPack, & more. Wired alum – wired.com/author/joseph-…

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Lens Rankings

Venture Capital

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#143 0.000817 A16Z
#227 0.000695 My Climate Journey
#998 0.000016 Sequioa
#1009 0.000044 Bessemer
#1082 0.000054 Index Ventures
#1147 0.000128 Village Global
#1296 0.000022 Y Combinator
#1354 0.000094 Khosla Ventures
#2081 0.000050 Benchmark Capital
#3338 0.000001 Standard Crypto
#3378 0.000001 Founders Fund
#3798 0.000001 Accel
#5362 0.000001 Sutter Hill Ventures
#5908 0.000001 Homebrew

Crypto

#125 0.001070 Crypto VC
#3362 0.000001 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#3456 0.000001 Crypto Political Economy
#3529 0.000001 Polkadot
#4417 0.000001 Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
#4507 0.000012 Crypto Infrastructure
#5344 0.000001 Crypto Angels
#5363 0.000001 Crypto Journalists
#5402 0.000001 Cosmos
#6332 0.000001 Public Goods Funding
#6591 0.000001 Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
#7335 0.000002 IDEO Founder Collective
#8400 0.000001 Ethereum
#8428 0.000001 Decentralized Web
#9008 0.000001 Crypto Investing

Journalism

#307 0.000380 Palladium Magazine
#332 0.000486 BuzzFeed
#1704 0.000014 Techcrunch
#3173 0.000037 Recode
#3661 0.000001 The Information
#4143 0.000001 OANN
#4161 0.000001 Newsmax
#4172 0.000001 Stat News
#4482 0.000001 The Verge
#5093 0.000001 The Economist
#5326 0.000003 Foreign Policy
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#6448 0.000001 Wired
#6570 0.000001 The Intercept
#6940 0.000001 Financial Times
#8065 0.000001 The Los Angeles Times
#8920 0.000001 VICE
#9855 0.000008 New Yorker

Informal Community

#1910 0.000073 Founders

Culture and Political Economy

#1817 0.000012 Bismark Analysis
#1831 0.000058 The Long Now Foundation
#2210 0.000061 Progress Studies
#3173 0.000013 Works in Progress
#3317 0.000001 Schumacher Circle
#3363 0.000001 Fair Vote
#3465 0.000001 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#3499 0.000001 Extinction Rebellion
#3540 0.000001 Existential Risks
#3554 0.000001 Claremont Institute
#3566 0.000001 Ecosocialism
#3589 0.000029 Ecomodernists
#3615 0.000001 Sierra Clib
#3844 0.000001 350.org
#4020 0.000001 Environmental Defense Fund
#4254 0.000001 Climate Solutions
#4671 0.000001 Environmental Journalists
#5730 0.000001 Social Epistemology
#5787 0.000001 RadicalxChange
#5908 0.000001 Heterodox Academy
#6086 0.000001 Populist Libertarians
#6729 0.000001 Effective Altruism
#6746 0.000001 Black Lives Matter
#7376 0.000001 EFF
#8457 0.000001 Anarachists
#9126 0.000001 Moderate Conservatism
#9413 0.000001 Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)

system

#5638 0.000031 Baseline

Think Tanks

#3738 0.000001 RAND Corporation
#3793 0.000001 Belfer Center
#3976 0.000001 Urban Institute
#4195 0.000001 Heritage Foundation
#4613 0.000001 Cato Institute
#5326 0.000003 Niskanen Center
#5585 0.000001 Atlantic Council
#5655 0.000001 Asia Society Policy Institute
#5723 0.000003 Hudson Institute
#6447 0.000001 Berggruen Institute
#7335 0.000008 Mercatus Center
#7498 0.000001 Earth Institute
#8218 0.000001 Columbia SIPA Center for Energy Policy

Science

#3870 0.000001 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#4282 0.000001 Philosophy Twitter
#5921 0.000001 Epidimiology Twitter
#7354 0.000001 Epidemiology Journalism

Software Engineering

#3463 0.000001 Rust
#4305 0.000001 Zig

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