Mentez is a
Latin American
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Latin American countries and their Latin American diaspora, diasporas are Metroethnicity, ...
-focused
social network
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game publisher based in
Miami
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.
Mentez is significant because the company is the leading social game publisher in Latin America, a rapidly growing social network and gaming area of the world. Paymentez processes more than
[Mentez gets investment to build social games in Latin America and Brazil ''Games Beat August 9, 2010'']
/ref> 45,000 transactions a day.
As of August 2010, the company had 21 games on Orkut
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and 7 games on Facebook
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, with more than [ 22 million weekly active players.
Mentez signed a distribution agreement with ]Zynga
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in 2011 be a distributor of Zynga Game Cards and PINS at more than 1 million retail locations and Internet cafes across.
Mentez signed a distribution agreement with Disney-owned Playdom
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in 2010 to publish several games in Latin America. These include ''Tiki Resort'' and '' Bola''.
Mentez operates an alternative payments network in Brazil called ''Paymentez''. As of August 2010, users could buy Paymentez credits at 25,000 internet cafe
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s or 100,000 retail locations across Brazil
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.
Mentez received an undisclosed amount of funding in 2010 from Insight Venture Partners
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.
Juan F Franco is currently Mentez CEO, Jaime Roldan is Mentez CTO and Juan Roldan is Mentez VP Content. The company was founded by Juan Franco, Jaime Roldan and Tahiana D'Egmont in Brazil.
References
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External links
Mentez official site
Paymentez official site
Video game companies of the United States
Video game publishers