When Haroldo Jacobovicz founded Arlequim Technologies in 2021, the decision reflected something he had been working toward for much of his professional life. Across decades of building and running technology businesses, one question kept returning: how do you make digital tools genuinely accessible to the people who need them most, rather than only to those who can afford the latest hardware?
Arlequim’s answer to that question is cloud-based computer virtualisation — a technology that allows existing, older machines to operate at performance levels associated with far more recent equipment. The practical effect is significant. A public school, a small business or an individual user can extend the working life of hardware that would otherwise be considered obsolete, without spending on new devices. The cost of staying connected and productive drops considerably, and the barrier to digital participation narrows.
Brazil’s digital landscape gives that proposition particular weight. Internet access remains uneven across the country, with rural communities and lower-income households still underserved relative to urban centres. At the same time, demand for capable computing continues to grow across every sector — in workplaces, classrooms and homes. Arlequim operates at that intersection, offering a route to better performance that does not depend on purchasing power alone.
The company targets three primary markets: businesses, public sector institutions and individual consumers, with gaming representing a specific focus within the consumer segment. Brazil ranks among the most active gaming nations in Latin America, with a substantial and growing population of players. Many of those users are working with hardware that limits their experience. Virtualisation technology addresses that gap directly, allowing games and applications to run more smoothly on machines that would otherwise struggle.
Haroldo Jacobovicz has framed Arlequim’s purpose in terms of improving everyday digital life for as many people as possible at a cost that makes practical sense. That framing reflects a broader perspective on what technology companies are actually for. A product that delivers results for well-resourced users but remains out of reach for everyone else has not fully solved the problem it set out to address. Arlequim’s model is built on the premise that performance and accessibility need to work together.
That perspective was shaped in part by Jacobovicz’s earlier experience in telecommunications, where building infrastructure for underserved markets demonstrated both the social value and the business logic of reaching people who lacked reliable digital access. The lessons from that period — about timing, market readiness and the downstream effects of connectivity — carry through into how Arlequim has been positioned.
The company’s scope across corporate, public and consumer markets is not incidental. Each of those sectors contains users who are affected by the cost and availability of capable hardware, and each represents a context in which virtualisation can deliver measurable improvement. Haroldo Jacobovicz built Arlequim Technologies around that range deliberately, with the view that digital inclusion is not a single problem to be solved once, but an ongoing condition to be addressed across the full breadth of where people actually work and live.