Mentez is a

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-focused

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game publisher based in

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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

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and 7 games on

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, with more than 22 million weekly active players. Mentez signed a distribution agreement with

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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

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in 2010 to publish several games in Latin America. These include ''Tiki Resort'' and ''

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''. Mentez operates an alternative payments network in Brazil called ''Paymentez''. As of August 2010, users could buy Paymentez credits at 25,000

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s or 100,000 retail locations across

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. Mentez received anprofile at Insight Venture Partners
/ref> undisclosed amount of funding in 2010 from

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. Juan F Franco is currently Mentez CEO, Jaime Roldan is Mentez CTO and Juan Roldan is Mentez VP Content.

References

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External links

Mentez official site

Paymentez official site
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