# Mohamed Moussa

Co-founder and CTO, Tarteel. TIME100 AI 2026, Innovators. 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. ([time.com](https://time.com/collection/time100-ai/2026/mohamed-moussa/))

- Education: BASc, Systems design engineering, University of Waterloo, 2019 ([linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/in/mohamed-moussa-8b2baba4))
- Career: Tarteel (Co-founder and CTO, 2018 to now); Meta (Software Engineer, 2019–2020) ([allamericanspeakers.com](https://www.allamericanspeakers.com/celebritytalentbios/Mohamed+Moussa/469604), [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/in/mohamed-moussa-8b2baba4))
- TIME profile: https://time.com/collection/time100-ai/2026/mohamed-moussa/
- Profile: https://www.autumn.ai/resources/most-influential-people-in-ai/mohamed-moussa

- 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](https://time.com/collection/time100-ai/2026/mohamed-moussa/))
- Co-founded Tarteel in July 2018 but kept his Facebook engineering job, only joining full-time as CTO in December 2020. ([allamericanspeakers.com](https://www.allamericanspeakers.com/celebritytalentbios/Mohamed+Moussa/469604))
- At Facebook he worked on the growth team for Messenger Kids. ([linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/in/mohamed-moussa-8b2baba4))
- Tarteel got into MIT's Sandbox accelerator in fall 2019, the same year he finished his engineering degree at Waterloo. ([tarteel.ai](https://tarteel.ai/blog/tarteel-joins-mit--a-new-chapter/))
- Tarteel has 20 million downloads and logged over six million hours of Quran recitation across 180+ countries during Ramadan 2026. ([time.com](https://time.com/collection/time100-ai/2026/mohamed-moussa/))
- Says he didn't set out to build an AI company, only to solve problems his community had. ([time.com](https://time.com/collection/time100-ai/2026/mohamed-moussa/))