# Salman Ahmad

> Salman Ahmad is the co-founder and CEO of Mosaic, a Phoenix-based, tech-enabled general contractor reinventing how build-to-rent homes get planned and built. He grew up in a construction household, then stacked degrees in computer science from Arizona State, Stanford, and a PhD from MIT before deciding the most interesting unsolved software problem was the most analog industry there is: pouring foundations and framing walls. Mosaic's software platform, Mosaic Hub, coordinates contractors, schedules, and payments so homebuilders can offload construction the way startups offloaded servers to AWS.

- **Role:** Co-Founder and CEO at Mosaic
- **Organizations:** Mosaic, Microsoft
- **From:** Phoenix, Arizona, United States
- **Nationality:** American
- **Education:** BSE, Computer Systems Engineering (summa cum laude), Arizona State University, MS, Computer Science (Human-Computer Interaction), Stanford University, PhD, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (Programming Language Design for Service-Oriented Systems), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
- **Known for:** Co-founded and leads Mosaic, described as the fastest-growing general contractor in the build-to-rent space., Raised a $44M Series B (2021) from investors including Peak State Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, Founders Fund, Greylock, 8VC, Innovation Endeavors, Building Ventures, and Starwood Capital., Built Mosaic Hub, an AI-powered platform coordinating contracting, scheduling, and payments.

## Career timeline

- **pre-2017** — Worked at Microsoft developing virtualized datacenter solutions; produced ~20 technical publications and patents across software systems, programming languages, machine learning, HCI, and sensor hardware.
- **2017** — Co-founded Mosaic with Sep Kamvar to bring software discipline to residential construction.
- **2020** — Mosaic closed its Series A round.
- **2021-06** — Mosaic announced a homebuilding milestone, with completed homes and a pipeline exceeding $500M.
- **2021-11** — Mosaic raised a $44M Series B led by Peak State Ventures.
- **2024-onward** — Mosaic scales as a leading build-to-rent general contractor across Arizona and Texas, with 1,400+ homes under construction.

## Achievements

- Co-founded and leads Mosaic, described as the fastest-growing general contractor in the build-to-rent space.
- Raised a $44M Series B (2021) from investors including Peak State Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, Founders Fund, Greylock, 8VC, Innovation Endeavors, Building Ventures, and Starwood Capital.
- Built Mosaic Hub, an AI-powered platform coordinating contracting, scheduling, and payments.
- Earned a PhD in EECS from MIT, an MS from Stanford, and a BSE summa cum laude from Arizona State.
- Holds roughly 20 technical publications and patents across multiple computing disciplines.

## Latest updates

- **2021-11** — Closed a $44M Series B to automate construction planning and expand beyond Arizona.
- **2024** — Mosaic operating as a leading build-to-rent contractor across Arizona and Texas with 1,400+ homes under construction and a 1,500+ contractor trade network.

## Links

- Website: https://mosaic.us
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/salman-ahmad-02169745
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/mosaicbuilders
- Facebook: https://facebook.com/mosaicbuilders

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Last updated: 2026-06-06