Most technology companies are founded in response to a market opportunity. Arlequim Technologies was founded in response to something more specific: the observable reality that millions of people and organisations are locked out of adequate computing performance not because the technology to help them doesn’t exist, but because the conventional path to better hardware — buying new equipment — is out of reach. Haroldo Jacobovicz established the company in 2021 to offer an alternative route, using cloud-based virtualization to bring existing devices up to a performance level they could not previously achieve.
The mechanics of that service matter. Virtualization works by offloading processing demands to remote infrastructure, allowing a device with limited local capability to function as though it were running on significantly more powerful hardware. For the end user, the result is a machine that performs beyond its physical specifications. For the organisations and individuals who rely on that machine, the result is continued access to software and services that would otherwise require hardware they cannot afford or are not yet in a position to procure.
That last point connects to one of the three markets Arlequim targets. Public sector institutions in Brazil operate within procurement frameworks that make hardware replacement a slow and procedurally demanding process. Haroldo Jacobovicz spent a significant portion of his career working directly with this sector, first through Minauro — a computer rental and maintenance business he founded after leaving a role as an advisor at the Itaipu Hydroelectric Plant — and later through the e-Governe Group, which grew out of a series of acquisitions to become a technology solutions provider serving municipalities across Brazil. That background gives him a detailed understanding of why public institutions struggle to maintain current hardware and why a performance enhancement model, rather than a replacement model, can offer a more practical path forward.
The corporate market presents a related but distinct version of the same problem. Businesses managing large hardware estates face the ongoing challenge of keeping equipment functional as software requirements increase. A virtualization service that extends the productive life of existing devices offers a cost efficiency argument that is straightforward to make to finance and operations teams.
The retail segment, with its emphasis on gamers, reflects a different dimension of the same access question. Brazil’s gaming population has grown to encompass nearly three-quarters of internet users, and the hardware demands of modern games — particularly those requiring low latency and sustained processing power — continue to climb. For players whose equipment no longer meets those demands, the gap between what they own and what they need is a genuine obstacle. Arlequim’s service addresses it directly.
The company’s founding followed Jacobovicz’s decade-long tenure building Horizons Telecom into an established presence in Brazil’s corporate connectivity market. That chapter gave him direct experience of how infrastructure provision can reshape opportunity for the organisations that gain access to it. Haroldo Jacobovicz has carried that perspective into Arlequim Technologies, where the central question remains the same: how to make capable technology available to more people, at a cost that makes sustained access genuinely possible.