Roland Arlt

Professional: Entrepreneur. Technologist. Executive.

I co-founded my first company, WatchMyPrice.com, with three friends when I was 21. This company evolved into Blue Tiger Networks and was eventually acquired by Openweb in 2001. We had financial backing from Softbank among other investors. After consulting for several months I co-founded Cloudmark, now a leading developer of anti-spam software targeting service providers. Cloudmark raised capital from Ignition Ventures, Nokia and several other investors over the past 10 years. I re-located to Australia in 2003 and joined Sensory Networks, a developer of high-speed content processing solutions, as their first business development executive. In The company was financially backed by Deutsche Bank and several other investors. In 2005 I re-located to Beijing to focus on the APAC market.

I left Sensory Networks in 2008, and started my own consulting business focused on corporate development, business development primarily focused on Asia and China.

I am an Angel investor in Topsy, Xfire, Xoopit and Jyve (no longer active).

Private: German national. Happily Married. Recent Father.