HERO2
Early access on iPhone

Earn rewards for better trips.

Swap a drive for a walk, a bike ride or the train, and earn Power to spend at local businesses. HERO2 estimates the CO₂ each swap keeps out of the air.

HERO2 trip detail with walking, bus and train legs on a Bay Area map

How it works

Built to shift how you get around, one trip at a time.

  1. HERO2 Your Trips screen with walking, bus and train trips and the CO₂ saved
    01

    Move

    Leave the car. Walk, bike or take transit, and HERO2 picks up each trip on its own, leg by leg.

  2. HERO2 My Impact screen showing the CO₂ saved this week
    02

    Earn

    Confirm how you traveled and earn Power, car trips included. Trips that beat driving earn extra, and HERO2 estimates the CO₂ you kept out of the air.

  3. HERO2 Reward Used confirmation for an iced latte
    03

    Redeem

    Spend Power on rewards at local businesses. Show your phone at the counter and swipe.

  4. HERO2 leaderboard ranked by Power earned this month
    04

    Compete

    See how you rank each month by Power earned, against everyone, your friends or your chapter.

Screens from the HERO2 app. The reward shown is from a test business, and other people's names and street names are blurred.

Early days, real trips

The first numbers from our Berkeley pilot.

trips picked up by the app
1,300+
km of travel analyzed
7,700+
trips on foot, by bus or by train
3 in 4

Since launch. Trip modes are the app's best guess until riders confirm them, and CO₂ estimates will follow once they do. How CO₂ is calculated

For local businesses

Bring new customers to your door

List a reward for free. People who walk, bike and ride transit spend their Power at your business, and you see every visit.

  • Free to list your business
  • Switch rewards on for your slow hours
  • Customers redeem on their own phone
  • See every visit in your dashboard

Already partnering with HERO2

  • University Taqueria
  • IB's Hoagies (Southside)
  • Top Dog (Downtown)
  • Red Tomato Pizza House
  • Cali Grill
  • Tea Hut
  • Wonderful Spa
“We're excited to partner with HERO2, promoting sustainability while bringing new students to try out our products.”
University Taqueria, Berkeley

The team

Aurora Khatibi Garrity

Aurora Khatibi Garrity

Founder & CEO

The exact end user: an avid biker turned car-dependent after graduating from Berkeley.

  • Built an end-to-end geospatial analysis platform and dashboard for allocating funds in energy and land development
  • Led an international nonprofit's growth, partnerships and stakeholder deals
  • Dual Berkeley degrees in Psychology and Environmental Science, with research on carbon markets
LinkedIn

Mystery CTO

Name under wraps

Into cars, yet loves Europe's trains, even the late German ones. Took on HERO2 for its technical challenge and social impact.

  • Built HERO2's phone-sensor trip verification
  • Designed a rule engine for exascale supercomputers and a solver for a German carmaker's project
  • Finishing a machine learning master's at a top university

Backed by

  • Berkeley Rausser College
  • Berkeley Haas
  • Berkeley CDSS
  • Sutardja Center
  • Big Ideas
  • Project Climate
  • AIEB