# Organizations with structures worth learning from ## Standard questions ### Research Orgs * [[SRI International]] * [[Willow Garage attempted to do crowdsourced telerobotics]] * [[Otherlab]] * [[DeepMind]] * How did they get started * [[OpenAI]] * [[Intellectual Ventures]] * [[Xerox PARC]] * [[Google X]] * [[Bell Labs]] * [[Lockheed Skunkworks]] * [[D.E. Shaw Research]] * [[Creavis]] * [[Dynamicland]] * [[Allen AI Institute]] * [[Ink and Switch]] * [[Microsoft Research]] * [[Santa Fe Institute]] * [[YC Research]] * Why did they shut down? * [[Media Lab]] * [[MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology]] * [[Flatiron Institute]] * [[Actuate]] * [[Activate]]/[[Cyclotron Road]] * [[Rad Lab]] * [[Perimeter Institute]] * [[Semiconductor Research Corporation — SRC]] ### Funding Orgs * [[DARPA and corporate R&D filled overlapping but different niches]] * [[ARPA-E]] * [[IARPA]] * [[X-Prize]] * [[Research Bridge Partners]] * [[Gates Foundation]] * [[Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI)]] * [[BP Venture Research]] * [[Prime Coalition]] * [[Gitcoin]] * [Notion – The all-in-one workspace for your notes, tasks, wikis, and databases.](https://gitcoin.notion.site/gitcoin/Enter-the-Library-867e8df229374e1f97cae7eae45e5681) ### Startup Studios * [[3rd Rock Ventures]] * [[Flagship Pioneering]] * [[Idealab]] * [[Deep Science Ventures]] * [[Science (Startup Studio]] * [[Pioneer Square Labs]] * [[Singularity University]] * [[Entrepreneur First]] * [[Y Combinator]] * [[SRI Ventures]] * [[TandemLaunch]] * [[Elevate Bio]] * [[Weiss Institute]]? ### Whitespace Research * [[Lux Research]] * [[JASON group]] * [[Polyplexus]] ### Pioneers of new models * [[ARDC]] * [[Sequoia]] * [[Venrock]] ### Random * [[Research Seminars dot Org]] * [[Mozilla Foundation]] ### A Long Tail of Software Studios * [[OIO Studio]] * [[Other Internet]] <!-- #list --> [Web URL for this note](http://notes.benjaminreinhardt.com/Organizations+with+structures+worth+learning+from) [Comment on this note](http://via.hypothes.is/http://notes.benjaminreinhardt.com/Organizations+with+structures+worth+learning+from)