• Referral Platform Zferral Acquires SaaS App Store Cloudomatic

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    Friday, January 28th, 2011


    Web-based affiliate management system and “incentive engine” Zferral has bought SaaS web app store Cloudomatic for cash and equity. Cloudomatic was founded by OnSwipe co-founders Jason Baptiste and Andres Barreto, who will continue on as advisors. The price of the acquisition was not disclosed.

    Says Barreto,

    “There is a huge pain point for web app and SaaS companies when it comes to distribution, there is no doubt that referral and affiliate systems are by far one of the most efficient customer acquisition strategies, we are very excited to see how zferral’s growth is taking this to next level, making it very easy for any SaaS company to get up and running with their referral program”

    In conjunction with the acquisition, Zferral will also integrate with billing startup Chargify to enable Chargify customers to easily create and manage billing for their affiliate programs.

    Zferral has seen a 380% paid subscriber increase in the past month and is projecting further growth. And CEO Jeff Epstein is still on the look out for talent, noting that the company is still “aggressively seeking awesome people.”

    So if you’re awesome, watch your back. Don’t say we didn’t warn you.

    Company: Ambassador
    Launch Date: 2010
    Funding: $18k

    Ambassador (formerly zferral) is a social referral platform. Ambassador is the best way to reward your customers for promoting your products online. Ambassador provides an end-to-end solution: you can create, track and manage all your custom referral programs from a single dashboard. Build on the Ambassador API to seamlessly integrate into your own application, you can also integrate Ambassador into many popular 3rd party CRM, Email and Billing applications.

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    Company: Cloudomatic
    Website: cloudomatic.com
    Launch Date: March 19, 2010

    Cloudomatic is a Business Web App store, and is the easiest way to discover the business web apps that best fit your needs. Cloudomatic is a startup based in Miami, FL that came out of Startup Weekend Miami.

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