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Lens Rankings

Venture Capital

#13 0.004810 Index Ventures
#49 0.002971 Sequioa
#95 0.002074 Y Combinator
#97 0.001508 Village Global
#135 0.001076 Khosla Ventures
#142 0.000826 A16Z
#184 0.000956 Accel
#232 0.000561 Initialized Capital
#289 0.000582 Homebrew
#332 0.000307 Bessemer
#423 0.000449 Sutter Hill Ventures
#627 0.000003 Standard Crypto
#702 0.000003 Founders Fund
#848 0.000228 My Climate Journey
#948 0.000164 Benchmark Capital

Crypto

#161 0.000837 IDEO Founder Collective
#468 0.000326 Crypto VC
#641 0.000003 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#783 0.000003 Crypto Political Economy
#794 0.000131 Crypto Angels
#830 0.000003 Polkadot
#1457 0.000039 Cosmos
#2054 0.000001 Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
#2707 0.000026 Crypto Infrastructure
#3150 0.000001 Crypto Journalists
#3906 0.000001 Public Goods Funding
#3990 0.000001 Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
#4662 0.000002 Ethereum
#4843 0.000002 Decentralized Web
#6268 0.000001 Crypto Investing

Culture and Political Economy

#358 0.000445 Progress Studies
#532 0.000241 The Long Now Foundation
#594 0.000003 Schumacher Circle
#643 0.000003 Fair Vote
#771 0.000003 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#791 0.000003 Extinction Rebellion
#830 0.000003 Existential Risks
#887 0.000003 Claremont Institute
#905 0.000003 Ecosocialism
#934 0.000003 Sierra Clib
#1151 0.000003 350.org
#1338 0.000003 Environmental Defense Fund
#2436 0.000001 Environmental Journalists
#2766 0.000001 Climate Solutions
#2974 0.000001 Bismark Analysis
#3317 0.000037 Arnold Kling's Fantasy Intellectual Teams
#3468 0.000001 RadicalxChange
#3732 0.000001 Social Epistemology
#3738 0.000001 Heterodox Academy
#3796 0.000001 Populist Libertarians
#4164 0.000001 Works in Progress
#4583 0.000001 Effective Altruism
#4622 0.000001 Black Lives Matter
#5299 0.000001 EFF
#5890 0.000001 Anarachists
#7228 0.000001 Moderate Conservatism
#7387 0.000001 Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)
#7918 0.000001 Degrowth
#7977 0.000001 Rationality

Think Tanks

#781 0.000212 Mercatus Center
#1074 0.000003 RAND Corporation
#1131 0.000003 Belfer Center
#1330 0.000003 Urban Institute
#1563 0.000003 Heritage Foundation
#2027 0.000003 Cato Institute
#2627 0.000001 Asia Society Policy Institute
#3072 0.000003 Atlantic Council
#4326 0.000001 Berggruen Institute
#5119 0.000001 Earth Institute
#6172 0.000001 Columbia SIPA Center for Energy Policy
#7215 0.000001 Eurasia Group
#7302 0.000001 Niskanen Center
#7317 0.000002 Adam Smith Institute
#7527 0.000001 Hudson Institute
#8026 0.000001 Peterson Institute for International Economics
#9514 0.000001 Hoover Institution

Informal Community

#1106 0.000122 Founders

Science

#1074 0.000103 Biotech
#1203 0.000003 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#1554 0.000003 Philosophy Twitter
#3389 0.000003 Epidimiology Twitter
#5368 0.000001 Epidemiology Journalism

Journalism

#1020 0.000003 The Information
#1559 0.000003 Stat News
#1594 0.000017 Techcrunch
#1740 0.000001 Newsmax
#1741 0.000001 OANN
#1886 0.000019 CNBC
#1938 0.000003 The Verge
#1970 0.000052 BuzzFeed
#2509 0.000003 The Economist
#3135 0.000011 Palladium Magazine
#3284 0.000003 The Daily Beast
#3666 0.000035 Bloomberg Opinion
#4173 0.000003 Wired
#4403 0.000003 Financial Times
#4680 0.000001 The Intercept
#5684 0.000003 The Los Angeles Times
#6303 0.000005 Washington Post
#6598 0.000003 VICE
#7302 0.000001 Foreign Policy
#8070 0.000001 Reuters
#8792 0.000003 Wall Street Journal
#8916 0.000001 Recode
#9140 0.000001 The Dispatch

Software Engineering

#772 0.000003 Rust
#1905 0.000001 Zig

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