Revel

Revel develops a software platform for developing, deploying, and commanding hardware systems across the full product lifecycle, from benchtop prototypes to scaled production and industrial-scale deployments. The platform is offered in two named products: RevelTest, aimed at designing and running hardware tests (quick-turn benchtop setups, iterative R&D, and prototype-to-production testing), and RevelC2, aimed at large-scale industrial systems in aerospace, energy, and defense with facility-wide control, always-on critical operations, and operator-centric control rooms.

Core capabilities described by the company include automated system discovery and configuration, real-time telemetry channels from sensor to screen, browser-based interactive dashboards for remote monitoring and control, programmable alerts, historical data capture with reporting, log export, and streaming to external tools. Programming and runtime verification are handled through RevelCode, a compiled, runtime-safe hardware control language used to describe expected states and define runtime checks. An exhibitor listing describes additional technical attributes: deterministic control up to 1 kHz, built-in safety interlocks, a hardware-native scripting language, and support for on-premises and air-gapped deployments.

The company positions its platform as a replacement for fragmented legacy tools, incompatible platforms, and homegrown scripts that require engineers to context-switch across disconnected stages of hardware development and operation.

Founding story

Founder and CEO Scott Morton states he founded Revel to build a modern platform for hardware testing and control for high-consequence environments where reliability and safety are non-negotiable, arguing that software infrastructure has lagged the past decade's breakthroughs in rockets, aviation, energy, and advanced manufacturing. The initial focus was modern test software for aerospace startups.

Business model

Revel sells a software platform to hardware engineering organizations, with a demo-request motion on its website and support for on-premises and air-gapped deployments. Specific pricing or contract structures are not disclosed in the sources.

Traction

The company reports that engine test stand setups that previously took 14 days were completed in 8 hours, that propulsion teams increased testing cadence from once every other day to multiple times per day, and that Impulse runs over 80 instances of RevelTest across its hardware testing facilities. A customer testimonial from Impulse Space cites a 4x improvement in test rate during a first RevelTest campaign. The company states that every pilot it has run has converted into a customer.

Latest developments

On February 26, 2026, Revel announced a $150M Series B led by Index Ventures with major participation from Redpoint Ventures and returning investors Thrive Capital, Felicis, and Abstract Ventures, described internally as an "afterburner round." Proceeds are earmarked for growing the team and building adjacent products around the core platform, with hiring across the board; the team includes engineers from SpaceX, Anduril, and Palantir.