Revolut is expanding its private investments offering with Revolut Ventures, a platform intended to connect eligible customers with high-growth private technology companies. Established with Carne Group on October 26, 2026, ahead of a planned 2027 launch, the venture targets access to investments traditionally reserved for institutions and ultra-wealthy individuals.
Key takeaways
- Revolut Ventures will sit within the Revolut app.
- Companies are staying private longer, figures cited by Revolut show.
- Private investments carry substantial capital-loss risk and limited liquidity.
How Revolut’s private investments offering will reach customers
Revolut Ventures will give eligible customers access to private technology companies through the Revolut app. Alongside this addition, users will also have access to existing options such as US/SEE stocks, ETFs, money market funds, bonds and private market funds.
The partnership brings together Revolut, which has 80 million customers, and Carne Group, described in the announcement as Europe’s largest third-party asset management company.
This move comes after Revolut rolled out Private Markets in July 2026 across certain SEE jurisdictions. Its stated purpose is to connect eligible customers with high-growth businesses before those companies reach public markets.
Longer waits for IPOs narrow retail access
Companies are taking longer to go public, while the pool of US-listed businesses has contracted, according to figures cited by Revolut. Companies going public have grown older on average, with the figure climbing from 6.9 years in 2014 to 11 years in 2025.
Revolut says a growing share of value creation happens before a stock-market listing. Historically, access to those private investment opportunities has largely belonged to major institutions and ultra-high-net-worth individuals, excluding everyday retail investors.
The company also cited a decline in US-listed businesses, from 7,000 in 2000 to 3,900 in 2025. Mature, cash-generating companies increasingly move into private ownership or choose not to list, reducing the opportunities available to retail clients.
Retail access comes with lower liquidity
Private investments through Revolut Ventures will be significantly less liquid than publicly traded shares and carry substantial risk of capital loss. Revolut acknowledged those limits alongside the growth potential of the opportunities it plans to offer.
Rolandas Juteika, Head of Revolut Wealth and Trading (EEA), framed the venture around removing barriers to retail participation: “With Revolut Ventures we aim to dismantle one of the last barriers in wealth management: the exclusion of retail investors from private companies.”
Juteika said the platform’s goal is to give everyday investors direct access to private companies from the Revolut app, where the service will sit alongside its existing investment products.
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