Dante La Ruffa
Partner | Co-Head of Venture Capital at Aquiline @ Aquiline Capital Partners
New York, United States
Dante La Ruffa is a Series A investor at Aquiline Capital Partners in New York focused on Payments and Financial Services. Dante La Ruffa is the Partner, Co-Head of Venture Capital at Aquiline.
- Total investments:
- 5
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 60%
Last updated:
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Industries Dante La Ruffa invests in
Stages Dante La Ruffa invests in
Countries Dante La Ruffa invests in
Investment Focus
Industry
- Payments 2 (40%)
- Financial Services 2 (40%)
- Information Technology 2 (40%)
- Legal 1 (20%)
- Software 1 (20%)
Stage
- Series A 3 (60%)
- Seed 1 (20%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 1 (20%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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Upside
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Upside is the only nationally scalable housing stability platform purpose-built for healthcare. The company partners with health plans and employers to identify and stabilize members and employees experiencing housing instability, connecting them to safe, supportive housing while reducing avoidable emergency utilization and improving healthoutcomes. Upside pairs dedicated Care Guides with AI-supported housing orchestration to deliver measurable results at scale. The platform serves Medicaid, Medicare Advantage, D-SNP, commercial, and employer-sponsored populations across the full housing continuum, from crisis intervention to long-term tenancy support. Founded in 2020 and headquartered in Fort Lauderdale, FL, Upside is redefining how healthcare addresses housing as a foundation of care. | $20M / Series A / Jun 25, 2026 | |
Confido Legal
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Confido Legal provides a credit/debit card and ACH payment processing platform specifically designed for law firms and legal technology companies. The platform offers features such as automated payment plans, payment pages for firm websites, and integration with financial management tools like QuickBooks Online. Confido Legal aims to enhancefinancial flexibility for law firms, ensuring they never have to turn away clients due to payment issues. | $2M / Venture - Series Unknown / Feb 26, 2026 | |
Atomic Insights
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Atomic Insights is a financial technology company that simplifies and ensures compliance for RIAs and family offices. The platform automates client payment workflows from beginning to finish, recording payment requests, organizing approvals, and executing payments through real-time custodian and bank APIs, all while providing a complete audit trailand cashflow reporting in a single, centralized workspace. Atomic Insights minimizes human data entry, decreases operational risk, and enables wealth management businesses to provide a more personalized "family CFO" experience at scale by integrating bidirectionally with top CRM and portfolio management platforms. | $10M / Seed / Jan 14, 2026 | |
Wisdom
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Wisdom provides outsourced revenue cycle management services for dental practices, focusing on insurance billing, verification, and patient billing. The company blends industry expertise with technology to manage tasks such as claims submission, claims aging follow-up, payment posting, and denial management. Its teams handle insurance verificationwith detailed coverage breakdowns, eligibility checks, and plan updates to support accurate treatment planning. Wisdom also manages patient billing workflows, including statements, letters, and phone calls, to follow up on overdue balances. Additional services include fee schedule updates, ledger audits, and predetermination submissions to align reimbursements and financial records with payer requirements. Through these offerings, Wisdom supports dental offices in running billing operations that are structured, documented, and aligned with insurance and patient payment processes. | $21M / Series A / Aug 20, 2025 | |
LegalMation
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LegalMation is an AI technology company that provides tools to help attorneys and legal professionals automate routine litigation tasks, allowing them to focus on more valuable tasks in their practice. It aims to redefine the way these professionals provide value to their clients, whether as outside or in-house legal counsel.For corporate legaldepartments, LegalMation tools will provide in-house attorneys and paralegals unparalleled time and cost savings, standardized and consistent documentation, and ultimately the ability to outsource less. It also allows law firms to achieve higher per-attorney profitability and efficiency.LegalMation was founded in 2016 and is based in Los Angeles, California, United States. | $15M / Series A / Oct 25, 2023 |
Co-Investors
About Aquiline Capital Partners
Aquiline Capital Partners is a private equity firm specializing in investments in the financial services industry. The firm prefers to make investments in risk-bearing and service enterprises in sectors such as property and casualty insurance, banking, finance, securities, asset management, life insurance, operations, financial technology, andtransaction processing.Aquiline Capital Partners LLC was founded in 2005 and is based in New York, New York.
Aquiline Capital Partners Contacts
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Bruce I. Crabtree
Software Investor
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Carly Jaye Arluke
Partner
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Dante La Ruffa
Partner | Co-Head of Venture Capital at Aquiline
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Geoffrey KALISH
Chief Operating Officer & Partner
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Ian Broadwater
Partner
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What does Dante La Ruffa invest in?
Dante La Ruffa invests primarily in Payments, Financial Services and Information Technology startups, most often at Series A and Seed 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.
When did Dante La Ruffa last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Dante La Ruffa closed in Jun 2026. 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.
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Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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