Mohamed Moussa
Co-founder and CTO, Tarteel
Finding it hard to type Arabic to look up Quran verses, he helped build a voice AI app for Quran study that now has 20 million downloads.
- Born
- Not published
- Now
- Co-founder and CTO, Tarteel
- Studied
- University of Waterloo
Interesting facts
- Turning point
Raised near Toronto with English as his first language, he couldn't use an Arabic keyboard to look up Quran verses, and saw voice as the bridge.
time.com - Side project
Co-founded Tarteel in July 2018 but kept his Facebook engineering job, only joining full-time as CTO in December 2020.
allamericanspeakers.com - Before AI
At Facebook he worked on the growth team for Messenger Kids.
linkedin.com - Early start
Tarteel got into MIT's Sandbox accelerator in fall 2019, the same year he finished his engineering degree at Waterloo.
tarteel.ai - Numbers
Tarteel has 20 million downloads and logged over six million hours of Quran recitation across 180+ countries during Ramadan 2026.
time.com - In their words
Says he didn't set out to build an AI company, only to solve problems his community had.
time.com
Career
- TarteelCo-founder and CTO2018 to now
- MetaSoftware Engineer2019–2020
Education
- BASc, Systems design engineering, University of Waterloo, 2019
