# Ian Gutwinski

> Ian Gutwinski is the founder and CEO of Mosaic, a New York company rebuilding private-equity deal modeling for the AI era. A former Onex Partners principal turned self-taught coder, he started the product as an MIT class project during his Harvard MBA and now counts five of the world's top ten PE firms among its users. In April 2026 Mosaic raised an $18M Series A led by Radical Ventures to turn deal math into software so investors can spend less time linking cells and more time thinking.

- **Role:** Founder & CEO at Mosaic
- **Organizations:** Mosaic, Investor Technology Group, Onex Partners
- **Nationality:** Canadian
- **Education:** Bachelor's in Accounting, University of Waterloo, Master's in Accounting, University of Waterloo, MBA, Harvard Business School, Cross-registered coursework (built first Mosaic prototype), Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- **Known for:** Founded and leads Mosaic, used by investment professionals at firms managing over half a trillion dollars in assets, Raised an $18M Series A led by Radical Ventures in April 2026, Selected by five of the top ten global private equity firms in 2025 as their AI-driven deal modeling platform

## Career timeline

- **pre-2019** — Spent six years in private equity at Onex Partners in New York, rising to Principal
- **2019** — Conceived the first Mosaic prototype as a class project while cross-registered at MIT during his Harvard MBA
- **2021** — Completed MBA at Harvard Business School and committed to building Mosaic full time
- **2024** — Mosaic / Investor Technology Group unveiled the next-generation Digital Deal Modeling platform and Mosaic Vision, an AI-powered financial model reader
- **2025** — Selected by five of the top ten global PE firms; announced strategic partnership with Evercore; released AI deal-modeling agent Mo
- **2026** — Raised $18M Series A led by Radical Ventures to expand into investment banking and private credit

## Achievements

- Founded and leads Mosaic, used by investment professionals at firms managing over half a trillion dollars in assets
- Raised an $18M Series A led by Radical Ventures in April 2026
- Selected by five of the top ten global private equity firms in 2025 as their AI-driven deal modeling platform
- Secured a strategic partnership with Evercore to bring Mosaic to investment banking
- Counts Warburg Pincus, CVC, Bridgepoint, New Mountain Capital, Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan and The Riverside Company among adopters
- Self-taught software engineer who wrote the first version of the product himself
- Certified CPA

## Latest updates

- **2026-04** — Mosaic raised an $18M Series A led by Radical Ventures; Ryan Shannon and Troy Pospisil joined the board and John Megrue became a strategic adviser.
- **2025-10** — Mosaic released its agentic AI deal-modeling agent, 'Mo,' which ingests deal documents and returns MD-ready models in minutes.

## Links

- Website: https://mosaic.pe
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/iangutwinski/

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Last updated: 2026-06-04