Hercules Capital, Inc. is a business development company. The firm specializing in providing venture debt, debt, senior secured loans, and growth capital to privately held venture capital-backed companies at all stages of development from startups, to expansion stage including select publicly listed companies and select special opportunity lower middle market companies that require additional capital to fund acquisitions, recapitalizations and refinancing and established-stage companies. The firm provides growth capital financing solutions for capital extension; management buy-out and corporate spin-out financing solutions; company, asset specific, or intellectual property acquisition financing; convertible, subordinated and/or mezzanine loans; domestic and international corporate expansion; vendor financing; revenue acceleration by sales and marketing development, and manufacturing expansion. It provides asset-based financing with a focus on cash flow; accounts receivable facilities; equipment loans or leases; equipment acquisition; facilities build-out and/or expansion; working capital revolving lines of credit; inventory. The firm also provides bridge financing to IPO or mergers and acquisitions or technology acquisition; dividend recapitalizations and other sources of investor liquidity; cash flow financing to protect against share price volatility; competitor acquisition; pre-IPO financing for extra cash on the balance sheet; public company financing to continue asset growth and production capacity; short-term bridge financing; and strategic and intellectual property acquisition financings. It also focuses on customized financing solutions, emerging growth, mid venture, and late venture financing. The firm invests primarily in structured debt with warrants and, to a lesser extent, in senior debt and equity investments. The firm generally seeks to invest in companies that have been operating for at least six to 12 months prior to the date of their investment. It prefers to invest in technology, energy technology, sustainable and renewable technology, and life sciences. Within technology the firm focuses on advanced specialty materials and chemicals; communication and networking, consumer and business products; consumer products and services, digital media and consumer internet; electronics and computer hardware; enterprise software and services; gaming; healthcare services; information services; business services; media, content and information; mobile; resource management; security software; semiconductors; semiconductors and hardware; and software sector. Within energy technology, it invests in agriculture; clean technology; energy and renewable technology, fuels and power technology; geothermal; smart grid and energy efficiency and monitoring technologies; solar; and wind. Within life sciences, the firm invests in biopharmaceuticals; biotechnology tools; diagnostics; drug discovery, development and delivery; medical devices and equipment; surgical devices; therapeutics; pharma services; and specialty pharmaceuticals. It also invests in educational services. The firm invests primarily in United States based companies and considers investment in the West Coast, Mid-Atlantic regions, Southeast and Midwest; particularly in the areas of software, biotech and information services. The firm prefers to invest between $10 million to $250 million in equity per transactions. It invests generally between $1 million to $40 million in companies focused primarily on business services, communications, electronics, hardware, and healthcare services. The firm invests primarily in private companies but also have investments in public companies. For equity investments, the firm seeks to represent a controlling interest in its portfolio companies which may exceed 25% of the voting securities of such companies. The firm seeks to invest a limited portion of its assets in equipment-based loans to early-stage prospective portfolio companies. These loans are generally for amounts up to $3 million but may be up to $15 million for certain energy technology venture investments. The firm allows certain debt investments have the right to convert a portion of the debt investment into equity. It also co-invests with other private equity firms. The firm seeks to exit its investments through initial public offering, a private sale of equity interest to a third party, a merger or an acquisition of the company or a purchase of the equity position by the company or one of its stockholders. The firm has structured debt with warrants which typically have maturities of between two and seven years with an average of three years; senior debt with an investment horizon of less than three years; equipment loans with an investment horizon ranging from three to four years; and equity related securities with an investment horizon ranging from three to seven years. The firm prefers to invest through its balance sheet capital. The firm formerly known as Hercules Technology Growth Capital, Inc. Hercules Capital, Inc. was founded in December 2003 and is based in Palo Alto, California with additional offices in Connecticut; Boston, Massachusetts; San Diego, California; Westport, Connecticut; Elmhurst, Illinois; Santa Monica, California; McLean, Virginia; New York, New York; Radnor, Pennsylvania; and Washington, District of Columbia and London, United Kingdom. The 2025 version of the report offers detailed insights into the company's strategies, developments, outlook and drivers. In addition to SWOT Analysis and Financial Overview, the report analyzes key projects, business description, products, services, brands, operating locations, subsidiaries and affiliates of Hercules Capital Inc..
Hercules Capital Inc. business operations across the value chain are included. Further, all major operating and planned locations, related contacts, details of subsidiaries and partnerships of Hercules Capital Inc. are also analyzed.
Detailed SWOT Analysis of the company including key strengths and weaknesses of Hercules Capital Inc. , on which it can build its business along with potential opportunities and threats in the near to medium term future are detailed.
Key employees of the company including the management team and board of directors are listed with their designations. Further, statistics on key parameters such as employee count, organization structure etc is provided.
Financial analysis of Hercules Capital Inc. including key ratios, income statement, cash flow statement and balance sheet are provided for the company. In addition, Key historical events, summary analysis of Hercules Capital Inc. and all latest updates of the company are provided.
The 2025 version of Hercules Capital Inc. report is presented after intensive primary and secondary research processes and it presents the insights in a complete impartial and reader friendly format.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
1.1 List of Tables
1.2 List of Figures
2 Introduction to the Company
2.1 Hercules Capital Inc.- Key Facts
2.2 Hercules Capital Inc.- Geographic Locations
2.3 Hercules Capital Inc.- Subsidiaries and Affiliates
2.4 Hercules Capital Inc.- Business Divisions
2.5 Hercules Capital Inc.- Key Employees
2.5.1 Management Team
2.5.2 Board of Directors
3. Hercules Capital Inc. Strategic Analysis Review
3.1 Hercules Capital Inc.- Key Strategies
3.2 Hercules Capital Inc.- Company Outlook Statement
3.3 Hercules Capital Inc.- SWOT Analysis
3.3.1 Hercules Capital Inc.- Key Strengths
3.3.2 Hercules Capital Inc.- Key Weaknesses
3.3.3 Hercules Capital Inc.- Potential Opportunities
3.3.4 Hercules Capital Inc.- Potential Threats
3.4 Hercules Capital Inc.- Key Competitors
4. Business Description of the Company
4.1 Hercules Capital Inc.- Business Overview
4.2 Hercules Capital Inc.- Operations by Segment
5 Products and Services Details
5.1 Hercules Capital Inc.- Key Products
5.2 Hercules Capital Inc.- Key Service Areas
5.3 Hercules Capital Inc.- Key Brands
6 Company Developments
6.1 Hercules Capital Inc.- Company History
6.2 Hercules Capital Inc.- Latest Developments
7 Financial Analysis
7.1 Hercules Capital Inc.- Income Statements
7.2 Hercules Capital Inc.- Balance Sheet
7.3 Hercules Capital Inc.- Cash Flow Statements
8 Competitors and Industry Analysis
8.1 Hercules Capital Inc.- Direct Competitors
8.2 Hercules Capital Inc.- Competitor Financial Ratios comparison
8.3 Hercules Capital Inc.- Competitor Stock Charts Comparison
8.4 Hercules Capital Inc.- Industry Analysis
9 Appendix
9.1 About SWOTreports
9.2 Sources and Methodology
9.3 Contact Information
P.S.Financial Analysis will be provided only for companies reporting financial data.
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