Find it.Build it.Scale it.
- Type
- Venture studio
- Markets
- Iceland · Japan · United Kingdom
- Founded
- Est. 2023
Our thesis
Most markets worth winning are too small, too local or too messy for anyone to have built the right product yet. Those are the ones we take.
Revol finds fragmented markets, builds the product in the smallest market that can prove it and wires that product into the local infrastructure everyone else routes around. Identity, registries, banking, brokers. That is what turns a marketplace into something that cannot be copied in a weekend.
Once it works it travels. The same playbook that proved out in Iceland is what we are running in Japan and the United Kingdom.
How we work
Small market first. Then scale the product.
01 Find the fragmentation
We look for markets where the transaction still runs on phone calls, spreadsheets and personal networks. Fragmentation is the opportunity, not the obstacle.
02 Build where it is provable
We launch in the smallest market that can validate the model end to end. Iceland is small enough to reach every participant and real enough to prove demand.
03 Wire in the local rails
Electronic ID, company registries, domain registries, invoicing, banking, brokers. Integration depth is the moat. It is slow to build and slower to copy.
04 Scale the product, not the overhead
Once the playbook holds we take the product to the next market and hand day to day scale to operators who live there.
Iceland · Japan · United Kingdom
Portfolio
Three products. One playbook.
- IcelandLive
Kennitalan
The marketplace where Icelandic companies, domains and business assets change hands.
- IcelandLive
Leena
Where Icelandic brands and creators find each other, agree terms and get the work delivered.
- IcelandLive
Tory
Inventory and food cost for restaurant groups, built inside a real kitchen.
Work with us
We build for other people too.
The same team that ships our own products takes on a small number of client builds each year.
Product build, 0 to 1
Full stack platforms and marketplaces, from empty repo to production. Auth, payments, multi tenancy, admin tooling and the integrations that make the thing actually work.
Web platforms, SEO and AEO
Sites built to be found by people, search engines and AI. Server rendering, structured data and answer engine optimisation so your content ranks in search and gets cited by AI assistants. Plus the publishing tools and dashboards your team runs it from.
Marketing and growth
Positioning, launch and the distribution that follows. Creator led campaigns, content engines and the outbound motion that fills the top of the funnel.
The studio
Who you would actually be working with.

Patrik Snær Kristjánsson
CEO

Kristófer Melsted
Chairman

Tryggvi Páll Jakobsson
CPO

Veronika Baranyuk
UI/UX Designer

Oleksandr Neschadin
Senior Software Developer
Contact
Tell us what you are building.
We answer everything ourselves, usually within a day.
hello@revol.isSelling a company in Iceland?
That is a different conversation and it happens on Kennitalan.
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