Mentez is the largest social gaming publisher in South America and one of its institutional investors is New York-based venture capital firm Insight Venture Partners. Jeff Horing, Insight’s Co-Founder and Managing Director, will manage Insight’s interests in the company taking an active role in Mentez’s Board of Directors. Mentez currently operates over seven social games on Facebook and more than 21 social games in Orkut, the major social network in Brazil, and services more than twenty two million weekly active players. The funding made by Jeff Horing and Insight in Mentez will support the social gaming company in enlarging its portfolio of social games to benefit from the broad opportunities in Latin America.