Roland Osborne
President at Arcologie
North Brabant, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolRoland Osborne is a veteran founder and early-stage investor with 13 years in venture and over a decade of hands-on product leadership, best known for co-founding and scaling Olark to 10,000+ paying customers while pioneering distributed teams and design-driven product culture. He has since advised and invested across clean tech, energy, mobility and SaaS through roles at 500 Global and now leads Arcologie to help startups and corporates run high-impact experiments and build lasting products and organizations. Roland blends operational product experience with accelerator and corporate partnership expertise, routinely coaching startups on pitching, fundraising, and pilot programs with blue-chip partners like General Motors. Based in North Brabant, he pairs an entrepreneur’s grit with a track record of program design and ecosystem-building across Latin America, Europe, and the U.S., and is as comfortable talking brand and UX as he is structuring investments.
13 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Entrepreneurship, Entrepreneurship at Y CombinatorBA Economics, BA Economics at University of Virginia
English, Spanish
Github Skills (24)
end-to-end-encryption10
ios10
react-native10
fdroid10
messenger10
open-source10
self-hosting10
video-chat10
openwrt10
chat10
privacy10
android10
golang10
raspberry-pi10
webrtc10
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
rolandosborne/IndiView
May 2021 - Dec 2021
Contributions:353 commits, 61 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
balzack/databag
Dec 2021 - Feb 2023
fast & lightweight self-hosted messenger
Contributions:746 commits in 1 year 1 month
web3decentralizediosmessengerreactjs
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