A private investment holding company · Boulder, Colorado
חֶסֶדhe·sed
noun · Hebrew · חֶסֶד
We buy and hold companies in software and services, and we build them for good.
Hesed is a private investment holding company. The wealth came first, and we always meant it to do good. We put it into two things we understand, software and services, and we hold what we buy. Today that means Pipestaff, LokiMode, and Colorado CareAssist.
The name
The word came first.
In Hebrew, hesed means loving-kindness: a steadfast, covenantal love, measured by what you actually do for another person rather than by what you feel.
It is our name because it is our standard. Built on Jewish values and ethics, Hesed holds its capital to a plain test: that it be useful, and that it do measurable good. The companies came after. The word set the terms.
Our approach
Tradition draws a careful line between tzedakah, charity given with money, and gemilut hasadim, the practice of hesed, given with your hands and your presence. We are a holding company, not a foundation: we deploy capital and stay to do the work. The tradition says three things about hesed, and they describe how we own a business.
We own, and we stay.
We are owners, not allocators. We back the operators who run our companies and stay beside them, bringing capital, patience, and work. No financial engineering, no spreadsheet held at arm's length.
It is owed to everyone it touches.
A company earns its keep for everyone it touches: its customers, its people, the community around it, not for its owners alone. We hold to that as a condition of ownership, not a program bolted on afterward.
We hold for good.
We are not building to sell. Hesed is permanent capital, held through the good years and the hard ones, because the work worth doing is measured in decades, not in a holding period.
“The world stands on three things: on Torah, on service, and on acts of loving-kindness.”
Pirkei Avot 1:2. Loving-kindness is named among the pillars of the world, and it is the one we chose to build on.
Held, not traded.
Our holdings
Two things we understand: software and services.
We invest where we have operating knowledge, and we hold what we buy. Today Hesed holds three companies: two in software, one in services.
Pipestaff
Exclusive caregiver hiring leads for home care agencies. CNAs, HHAs, and aides, each routed to a single agency, delivered in thirty-plus cities.
LokiMode
The operating system for a modern home care agency: scheduling, payroll operations, billing, and compliance in one system of record. Built and proven inside Colorado CareAssist, and in early access.
Colorado CareAssist
A licensed Colorado home care agency. Personal and dementia care, live-in care, care for veterans, and end-of-life support across the Front Range, since 2012.
Giving is done separately, through the Hesed Foundation, the family's philanthropy, built on the same idea.