Hercules Capital, Inc.

Hercules Capital, Inc. is a business development company. The firm is focused on providing senior secured loans to venture capital-backed and institutional-backed companies in a variety of technology and life sciences industries. The company is structured as an internally managed, non-diversified, closed-end investment company. Its business objectives are to increase its net income, net investment income, and net asset value, through its investments in primarily structured debt or senior secured debt instruments of venture capital-backed and institutional-backed companies across a variety of technology-related industries at attractive yields. The company invests in a range of companies active in the technology industry sub-sectors characterized by products or services that require advanced technologies, including computer software and hardware, networking systems, semiconductors, telecommunications equipment and media, semiconductor capital equipment, information technology infrastructure, and others.