Mosaic Building Group

Mosaic is a technology-focused construction company.

We build homes and communities that honor the unique purpose of each human being, while helping residents feel a deep sense of connection and belonging — a feeling of being “at home” in the world. At the same time, we develop tools and technologies to make the construction process much more efficient, so that these kinds of places can be made available to many more people. Through the environments we create, we hope to provide an antidote to the suburban sprawl that predominates so much of modern America. The exact sequence of steps required to do this cannot be known ahead of time, so we follow a process of organic unfolding to guide our evolution — please join us.

Mosaic helps its partners discover and express their own unique purpose, supporting their journey of personal growth. Mosaic’s underlying belief is that people have far more potential than they generally express, and that the right environments can help to unlock these intrinsic capabilities. Mosaic seeks to create these kinds of environments.

Culture and Values

As we proceed, we use these core values to ground us:

Uniqueness — we believe each individual has their own unique purpose to fulfill, that our talents and gifts are clues to help us find it, and that companies and jobs should support us in discovering and expressing this purpose.

Belonging — we believe each individual has the capacity to experience a deep sense of belonging, which arises naturally when one feels connected to oneself (self-awareness), to others (compassion), and to the rest of life (wholeness).

Potential — we believe each individual has the intrinsic potential to realize these qualities, and that the environments we inhabit can either support or inhibit this potential; therefore, the shaping of space is very important.

Mosaic was founded in 2015 by Salman Ahmad and Sep Kamvar, emerging from their research together at MIT and Stanford. They are joined by Jonathan Harris, who leads Mosaic’s design team, Dave Ferrero, who leads its real estate team, and Jalil Ahmad, who leads construction. Mosaic’s architecture team includes Ross Chapin, author of Pocket Neighborhoods: Creating Small-Scale Community in a Large-Scale World. If our work resonates with you, please consider joining Mosaic.

Mosaic is supported by several prominent venture funds, including Andreessen Horowitz, Founders Fund, Greylock Partners, Thrive Capital, and 8VC, in addition to a handful of key individuals, including Eric Schmidt, Reid Hoffman, Ram Shriram, Ron Conway, and Patrick & John Collison.

The name “Mosaic” comes from the pattern “Mosaic of Subcultures,” as described in Christopher Alexander’s classic 1977 book, A Pattern Language. He writes:

“The homogeneous and undifferentiated character of modern cities kills all variety of life styles and arrests the growth of individual character. Therefore, do everything possible to enrich the cultures and subcultures of the city, by breaking the city, as far as possible, into a vast mosaic of small and different subcultures, each with its own spatial territory, and each with the power to create its own distinct life style. Make sure that the subcultures are small enough, so that each person has access to the full variety of life styles in the subcultures near his own.”