When Haroldo Jacobovicz launched Arlequim Technologies in 2021, he brought with him nearly four decades of hard-won lessons from Brazil’s technology landscape. The company now delivers cloud virtualization services that let users tap into high-powered computing without investing in new hardware.

A Different Direction

Jacobovicz grew up surrounded by civil engineering. Both parents practiced in the field—his mother Sarita among the first women to earn that distinction in Paraná state, his father Alfredo splitting time between projects and university teaching. He completed his own engineering degree at the Federal University of Paraná, yet something else captured his attention.

During the 1980s, computing was just beginning to reshape Brazilian commerce. Jacobovicz saw potential there that felt more suited to his instincts for spotting emerging opportunities.

Corporate Education

His first venture came before he finished school. Alongside three programming-savvy partners, he started Microsystem to bring automation tools to pharmacies, supermarkets, and small shops. The market wasn’t ready. Two years later, they shut it down.

He pivoted to corporate life, landing at Esso after competing against more than two hundred other engineering candidates. The American oil distributor moved him through sales positions in southern Brazil, then into market analysis, and finally to commercial strategy at the Rio de Janeiro headquarters. Throughout, he relied heavily on computer-driven data to guide his work.

Political turbulence during the Cruzado Plan’s price controls pushed him toward Itaipu Hydroelectric Plant, where advisory work revealed a persistent problem: government agencies wanted to modernize their technology but faced procurement rules that made purchasing equipment nearly impossible.

Solving Government Technology Problems

That frustration sparked Minauro, a company structured around what public agencies could actually do. Instead of selling computers outright, he rented them through contracts designed around administrative realities. Equipment refreshed every eighteen months, maintenance came bundled in, and agencies could finally access current technology.

Software acquisitions expanded the operation. Firms named Consult, Perform, and Sisteplan brought applications for tax collection, financial management, healthcare tracking, and educational administration into the fold. The resulting e-Governe Group still serves municipalities throughout Brazil.

Jacobovicz later spent more than a decade in telecommunications through Horizons Telecom, working with corporate clients.

What Arlequim Delivers

Arlequim Technologies processes demanding tasks on cloud servers and streams the output back to whatever device the user already owns. Three groups benefit most: businesses watching their technology spending, government bodies still navigating procurement constraints, and consumers who want better performance without buying new machines.

Gamers represent a growing slice of that consumer market. Players can access experiences their current hardware couldn’t handle alone—running graphics-intensive titles on modest equipment by offloading the heavy processing to the cloud.