Tip your tour guide with Bravo tipping app – interview with CEO Maria Rodriguez-Luna at TechCrunch Disrupt

Video editing by Xavier Smith When you need to tip the valet, a tour guide or donate to a car wash fundraiser, Bravo, a tipping app, can help you send over cash with a swipe of your finger. Co-founded by Dr. Hector and Maria Rodriguez-Luna, they came up with the idea while on a guided hiking … Read more

Startup VoiceCut lets users edit videos with their voice

Video contribution by Xavier Smith “Camera start” “Camera stop” “Camera delete” Memorize these three commands and you can be half way done editing your video upon import. VoiceCut , a video editing software that uses voice commands to cut video, recently launched its product to the first 100 alpha users. [youtube]https://youtu.be/S03vuHBniiU[/youtube] “We’ve created what we … Read more

Allbound raises $1.5M seed round led by Canal Partners – updated

Allbound, a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) Partner Sales Acceleration solution, is helping businesses realize more revenue from indirect sales partners through their predictive technology and gamification platform. Today the company announced a $1.5 million seed round led by Canal Partners with participation from Tallwave Capital and current investor Acceleprise. To date the company has raised around  $1.7 million. The … Read more

Vocem lets you have a voice in politics

Elections are coming up, and communicating what issues you find important could be a challenge. but political app Vocem is looking to change that. Vocem allows its users to take photos of political topics and issues, categorize them, add comments, and send thoughts to their local representatives in the House of Representatives or Senate. The app was released … Read more

Your signature is now your password – Dynasig releases biometric identity protector

Video contribution by Xavier Smith No need remember your username and password, just use your finger to open your account. A new biometric security product is in production by DynaSig, the company that built “Bio-pen” a biometric signature device, that can verify your signature for documents and open your online accounts in place of your … Read more

Refinance your home over a mocha with Loanatik – TechCrunch Disrupt

Video editing by Xavier Smith Getting a home refinanced could mean thousands of dollars of savings for a family, but the process of filling out mounds of paperwork, managing credit reports and dealing with layers of banking representatives is a huge time suck and brain drain. [youtube]https://youtu.be/qeSnQQyGFM4[/youtube] Demo of Loanatik at TechCrunch Disrupt Loanatik is … Read more

Local Motors to begin taking pre-orders for their 3D printed car

Chandler-based company Local Motors announced earlier in the week that they are beginning to take pre-orders for their 3D printed electric car, with hopes of getting them into customers’ hands by late 2016. [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VuxZUDiM6QQ[/youtube] “We plan to start taking orders for the highway-ready 3D-printed car in October, but I don’t have a specific date yet. We … Read more

Gadgets for the Guru: Everyday edition

This week’s edition of Gadgets for the Guru have items for the any and every techie. Protect your tablet and navigate with a high-tech stylus or listen to music on-the-go. There’s a tech gadget in here for everyone!   Stilo A Silicon Valley-based company created a stylus for touchscreen devices that doesn’t require Bluetooth. The accurate, fine-tip … Read more

CO+HOOTS launches socially-conscious art marketplace

The founders of CO+HOOTS have launched their fourth business in Phoenix — an ecommerce site for art prints where a portion of the proceeds are sent back into a community. Odeen Domingo and his wife Jenny Poon have acquired, rebranded, and launched Fresh Words Market, a marketplace that features art prints with positive messaging. “We … Read more