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Helpful Capital

Personal investment vehicle of two New York partners backing seed and early-stage technology companies

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About Helpful Capital

Helpful Capital is a New York investing outfit run personally by Jacob Brody and Lauren Romine. It puts money into seed and early-stage technology and tech-enabled businesses, and also takes selected private debt opportunities. Its website describes it as incubating and investing in companies in complex, highly regulated industries.

Products and services

  • Seed and early-stage investing: backs young technology and tech-enabled companies.
  • Private debt: takes part in a small number of private debt deals.
  • Incubation: helps build businesses in heavily regulated fields.

Who it serves

Founders in sectors such as consumer services, healthcare, advertising, financial services, insurance, logistics, agriculture and enterprise software, where the founding partner has backed around 40 companies over his career.

Key facts

  • Based in: New York
  • Founding Managing Partner: Jacob Brody
  • Managing Partner: Lauren Romine, who handles operations and finance

Profile written by TrustList from the business's own published information, Oct 2026.

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