# Farouk Ladha

> Farouk Ladha is a Series B investor at Four Rivers Group backing Enterprise Software. See 5 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated…

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Four Rivers Group](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/four-rivers-group)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 5
- Last investment: Oct 2025
- Lead investor: 60%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/farouk-ladha-3ba57

Farouk Ladha is a Series B investor at Four Rivers Group in San Francisco focused on Enterprise Software and Artificial Intelligence. Farouk Ladha is the Co-founder and Managing Partner at Four Rivers Group. Farouk earned a B.A. in economics and a minor in Islamic Studies, graduating summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, and with High Honors from Dartmouth College and has an MBA from Harvard Business School.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Enterprise Software | 2 | 40% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 2 | 40% |
| SaaS | 1 | 20% |
| Medical | 1 | 20% |
| Genetics | 1 | 20% |

15 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series B | 3 | 60% |
| Series C | 2 | 40% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Findem | Findem is a talent-acquisition technology firm that offers an AI-driven “Talent Data Cloud designed to help companies identify, attract, and engage top candidates more efficiently. The company features capabilities such as its Copilot for Sourcing, which can turn a job description into a verified shortlist of candidates pulled across all hiringchannels with a single click. It also supports talent teams with analytics, diversity tracking, CRM-style talent pool management, and automated outbound outreach to potential hires. | $36M | Series C | Oct 21, 2025 |  |
| ClimateAI | World's first Enterprise Climate Platform | $22M | Series B | Apr 13, 2023 |  |
| LILT | Lilt powers the global experience across every step of the customer journey.We bring human-powered, technology-assisted translations to global enterprises. We give organizations everything they need to scale their translation programs, go-to-market faster than ever, and improve the global customer experience. Lilt’s translation services arepowered by our translation technology, which improves translator speeds by 3-5x and reduces localization costs by 50% or more. We're based in San Francisco with global offices in Berlin, Dublin, Indianapolis, Washington, D.C., and London, and are backed by Intel Capital, Sequoia, Redpoint, Zetta, and XSeed. | $55M | Series C | Apr 07, 2022 |  |
| Findem | Findem is a talent-acquisition technology firm that offers an AI-driven “Talent Data Cloud designed to help companies identify, attract, and engage top candidates more efficiently. The company features capabilities such as its Copilot for Sourcing, which can turn a job description into a verified shortlist of candidates pulled across all hiringchannels with a single click. It also supports talent teams with analytics, diversity tracking, CRM-style talent pool management, and automated outbound outreach to potential hires. | $30M | Series B | Dec 09, 2021 |  |
| BillionToOne | BillionToOne is a precision diagnostics company that quantifies biology to create molecular diagnostics accurate, efficient, and accessible for all. The company's patent-pending molecular counter platform is a technology platform that can accurately count the DNA molecules to the single-count level. BillionToOne's mission is to makepre-natal testing safe and affordable for every expecting mother. Its novel technology can detect even single-gene disorders such as thalassemia through a simple blood test. They are replacing amniocentesis, an invasive and risky procedure that has a high miscarriage risk, with a safe and affordable blood test, starting in developing countries.BillionToOne was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Menlo Park, California. | $55M | Series B | Jun 15, 2021 |  |

5 of 5 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Neotribe Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/neotribe-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [HOF Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hof-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Intel Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/intel-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Wing Venture Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/wing-venture-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [500 Global](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/500-startups) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Academy Investor Network](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/academy-investor-network-5de8) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Four Rivers Group

VC Fund · San Francisco, United States

Four Rivers Group is a financial organization. Nothing is publicly known about the organization other than this announcement. If you have more information, please update this profile.

5 contacts available at Four Rivers Group.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Farouk Ladha | Co-founder and Managing Partner | — |
| Daniel Scholnick | General Partner | — |
| Joe Greenstein | Strategic Limited Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/joe-greenstein |
| Kevin Mello | CFO | — |
| Lew Cirne | Strategic Limited Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lewis-cirne |

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## FAQ

### What does Farouk Ladha invest in?

Farouk Ladha invests primarily in Enterprise Software, Artificial Intelligence and SaaS startups, most often at Series B and Series C stage. Most of the 5 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact Farouk Ladha?

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### When did Farouk Ladha last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Farouk Ladha closed in Oct 2025. Shizune tracks 5 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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