Scott Morton

Founder and CEO, Revel · 1 appearance on the record.

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Scott Morton is the founder and CEO of Revel, a software company providing test and control platforms for complex physical hardware. Prior to Revel, he spent nearly a decade at SpaceX developing software systems for Falcon 9 and Starship.

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Opinion

Morton: 1993's Structured Text Remains the Cutting Edge in Industrial Controls

“The other big market is industrial control systems, and it's actually this, it's like a very similar story. The kind of most modern tools were developed in it's a language called structured text, Invented in 1993 and that is still to this day like the cutting …”

Scott Morton Feb 26, 2026 ▶ 4:52 Revel: The $1B Startup Rewriting Hardware Control · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea

Disclosure

Morton: Revel raised $150M round and $180M total in 15 months

“Raised in this round, a hundred and fifty million total raised 180, 15 month old company.”

Scott Morton Feb 26, 2026 ▶ 0:56 Revel: The $1B Startup Rewriting Hardware Control · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea

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Morton: Revel increased Impulse Space's engine test throughput 5x to 10x

“So impulse, the first big deployment was actually their rocket engine test site, which was like their kind of big burning need at the time. And they previous software, it was kind of one of the legacy solutions. They were testing about once every other day and…”

Scott Morton Feb 26, 2026 ▶ 5:28 Revel: The $1B Startup Rewriting Hardware Control · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea

Disclosure

Morton: Radiant Nuclear uses Revel C2 for command and control

“That's actually what Radiant is using, is we call it REVEL C-II, which is, C-II stands for Command and Control, and so it does things like high availability, where we have primary backup systems, we have data logging redundancy as well, and we also have, we ca…”

Scott Morton Feb 26, 2026 ▶ 17:29 Revel: The $1B Startup Rewriting Hardware Control · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea

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Morton: SpaceX Had to Build Control Infrastructure From Scratch

“At SpaceX, we ended up actually having to build all the infrastructure from scratch to actually have something that was modern and that and that also really helped us be more successful.”

Scott Morton Feb 26, 2026 ▶ 4:26 Revel: The $1B Startup Rewriting Hardware Control · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea

Insight

Morton: One Character Error in Rocket Control Code Can Destroy Launchpads

“I'm about to have tens of thousands of lines of code execute, one character wrong in one of these lines of code. Is the difference between, like, total success and then, like, maybe no more launch site.”

Scott Morton Feb 26, 2026 ▶ 9:21 Revel: The $1B Startup Rewriting Hardware Control · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea

Disclosure

Morton: Revel is building Astra Mechanica's jet engine test facility

“Astra Mechanica is another one. We're doing their jet engine test facility.”

Scott Morton Feb 26, 2026 ▶ 16:17 Revel: The $1B Startup Rewriting Hardware Control · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea

Disclosure

Morton: Figma CEO Dylan Field Is an Investor in Revel

“Dylan Field is actually a pretty big investor in, in Revel, and it's been super interesting.”

Scott Morton Feb 26, 2026 ▶ 20:10 Revel: The $1B Startup Rewriting Hardware Control · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea

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Revel has converted 100% of customer pilots to date, says Morton

“Every pilot has actually converted. We're, we bet a thousand so far.”

Scott Morton Feb 26, 2026 ▶ 20:58 Revel: The $1B Startup Rewriting Hardware Control · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea

Appearances (1)

Episode	Date	Speaking time
Revel: The $1B Startup Rewriting Hardware Control · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea	Feb 26, 2026	16m

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