articles link to it . please introduce links to this page from related articles ; try the find link tool for suggestions . september 2014 pontiflex type startup industry mobile advertising small business founded new york 2008 headquarters brooklyn new york website www.pontiflex.com pontiflex is a mobile advertising company based in brooklyn ny . the company uses signup ads which enables businesses to get contact information of people interested in their products and offers . the ads which appear on mobile apps allow people to sign up with their email address without leaving the app . advertisers pay only for valid signups . 1 contents 1 history 2 products 3 references 4 external links history edit this section needs expansion . you can help by adding to it . may 2014 products edit on the advertiser side pontiflex launched its self serve mobile advertising product for small businesses adleads in march 2012 . 2 the product acquired 5000 customers as of july 2012 . 3 on the publisher side pontiflex allows app developers to serve ads on mobile apps via appleads . 4 pontiflex received attention in december 2012 when the vatican announced pope benedict xvi s twitter handle as pontifex . hundreds of people started following the startup on twitter which has a similar sounding twitter handle pontiflex 5 the company has raised a total of 22.5 million in funding to date . in january 2013 the company completed 7.7 million in series d funding led by talus holdings a media technology holding company principally backed by blackstone s gso capital . existing investors rre ventures new atlantic ventures and tribeca venture partners also participated in the round . 6 references edit pontiflex . crunchbase . 2013 01 01 . in may 2014 pontiflex changed their name to crossboard mobile . pontiflex launches self serve version of its mobile signup ads . techcrunch . new pontiflex tool uses social content to generate email follow ups for smbs . streetfight mag . pontiflex shows how to make money with mobile ads . gigaom . the pope s twitter feed runneth over for pontiflex . adage . pontiflex raises new round led by blackstone . vator tv . external links edit pontiflex website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title pontiflex & oldid 627453323 categories business services companies of the united statescompanies based in new yorkhidden categories orphaned articles from september 2014all orphaned articlesarticles to be expanded from may 2014all articles to be expandedarticles using small message boxes navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 28 september 2014 at 19 54 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view