Morta was founded by Matt and Mo in 2018, with the mission of transitioning the construction industry from analogue document-centric workflows to automated data-centric workflows. Having worked with the largest contractor in the Middle East, Mo noticed that despite the increasing number of software and emerging technologies in the construction industry, excel and word were still pervasive. This resulted in project professionals spending the majority of their time on collecting, cleaning, sharing and analysing data. After moving to London to join Entrepreneur First where he met Matt, who experienced the pains of MS Excel during his work in finance, they set out to build an application that looked like a spreadsheet but had the utility of databases.



They chose to name the company Morta because they believe that just like Mortar, data binds construction projects together. Today, Morta is being used by 50+ organisations across the globe and on several multi-billion pound programmes to eliminate spreadsheet risk, make information accessible and automate processes.