Daily Journal Corporation, the Los Angeles publishing and technology company listed on Nasdaq, announced on October 15, 2026 that it had acquired Revir Technologies, an Austin, Texas startup that makes Scout, an AI platform for managing and searching digital evidence. The deal closed on October 13.
Daily Journal paid with cash on hand and did not disclose the price. Revir will run independently inside a newly created Courts, Justice, and Government Technology division, alongside Journal Technologies, Daily Journal's long-standing court software subsidiary.
Founder and chief executive Marc Messina and his team will keep leading the development of Scout. Existing customer contracts, partner integrations and support stay in place.
What Revir built
Scout helps law enforcement agencies, prosecutors, corrections departments and other justice and public safety bodies collect, organise, search and analyse large volumes of digital evidence and records. It indexes files from hundreds of sources, including video, audio, images and documents, and supports AI-assisted analysis.
Unlike many evidence systems, Scout runs inside each customer's own secure Amazon Web Services environment. Revir pitches that as a way for agencies to keep control of their data, their infrastructure and their costs, rather than handing files to a vendor's shared cloud.
Revir sells to federal, state and local law enforcement, public safety and national security agencies through government buying channels including AWS Marketplace, SEWP, NASPO ValuePoint, OMNIA Partners and Texas DIR.
Carahsoft, a government IT reseller that lists the product, describes Scout as an intelligent digital evidence management system with a browser-based interface. It takes in video, audio, images, documents, compressed files and metadata from multiple sources, offers a secure portal for outside submissions, and keeps a registry of digital assets. Revir claims it can speed up discovery in investigations by between seven and 500 times.
“I’m delighted to welcome Marc and the Revir team to Daily Journal,”
The founder and the funding
CB Insights lists Revir as founded in 2021 and based in Austin. It says the company raised about $2.4 million and names the AWS GovTech Accelerator among its backers. Revir's funding history is otherwise not public.
Messina said agencies are often overwhelmed by growing volumes of digital evidence and should not have to give up control of their data to manage it.
In February 2025 Revir announced an integration with Mark43, a cloud-based dispatch and records management provider for public safety agencies, linking Mark43's case management with Scout. Revir said at the time that its software was engineered for AWS GovCloud and that it also built intelligence products for US defence and intelligence customers.
Why Daily Journal is buying
Daily Journal describes itself as a publishing and technology company. Its technology arm, Journal Technologies, already sells software to courts and justice agencies. Adding Revir gives the group a product that sits earlier in the justice process, at the point where police and prosecutors gather and review evidence.
Chairman and chief executive Steven Myhill-Jones said he saw considerable opportunities for Revir and Journal Technologies to serve common and related customers in complementary ways, including through partners. He praised Revir's approach of giving customers more control over their data and costs, and said Daily Journal would support the startup's growth.
Setting up a separate division for courts, justice and government technology suggests Daily Journal intends to add more products to it, although the company did not announce further deals.
A busy week for Austin tech
The sale was one of several Austin deals in the same week. Silicon Hills News noted that Bumble agreed to be taken private by Ithaca Holdings for about $1.3 billion, and that construction company ICON closed a $200 million Series D.
For Revir, the deal brings the backing of a listed company with existing relationships across courts and justice agencies, while leaving its founder in charge. Daily Journal did not say how many Revir employees would join, or give any revenue figures for the business.
