Who we are

Lifeguard, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, is unique platform that represents the first ever effort to provide the infrastructure, collaboration tools, and incentives needed to enable and encourage peer-reviewed science, focused on complex risks to human health and the environment, on a massive scale. Our vision is to create a world where multi-disciplinary teams collaborate to conduct peer-reviewed scientific research that finds defective or harmful products and by-products and prevents them from ending up in the hands of consumers, being exposed to workers in occupational settings, and harming the environment. If we had only known about the harms of asbestos as early as the 1930s, we could have saved lives, companies, and industry and had a more resilient society as a result.

‍The platform harnesses the collective intelligence of scientists, subject matter experts, and citizen scientists around the world through broadcast search crowdsourcing challenges. Our model provides an independent, open, and exhaustive research process for identifying emerging risks to human life and the environment.

What we do

We connect solvers with problems, and we believe that going to the global community can provide richer and broader solutions - beyond what your own network can provide.

Crowdsourcing may seem like a recent trend yet people have been doing it for centuries. Prize challenges have been directly responsible for our ability to navigate the open seas, to preserve food by canning, and they even helped launch the commercial space industry.

Crowdsourcing may seem like a recent trend yet people have been doing it for centuries. Prize challenges have been directly responsible for our ability to navigate the open seas, to preserve food by canning, and they even helped launch the commercial space industry.

Christian Cotichini, XPRIZE's Peter Diamandis, Emily Fowler and impact investor, City Light Capital co-founded HeroX in 2013 to bring challenges and crowdsourcing capabilities to the global community on a more accessible scale. Whether you want to help solve a challenge or post a challenge, HeroX is open to everyone.