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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-23-207986"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "HTGC"
cik: "0001280784"
company_name: "Hercules Capital, Inc."
filed_at: "2023-08-10T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-11T16:42:09.503306+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.5
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Hercules Capital closes underwritten public offering of 6.5M shares of common stock

## Summary
- Offering of 6.5M shares of common stock (plus 975k over-allotment option) closed on August 10, 2023.
- Underwriting agreement with Morgan Stanley, UBS, and Wells Fargo as joint book-running managers.
- Offering made under existing shelf registration statement; gross proceeds not disclosed.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-23-207986
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: HTGC
- cik: 0001280784
- company_name: Hercules Capital, Inc.
- filed_at: 2023-08-10T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.5
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 1.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1280784/000119312523207986/0001193125-23-207986-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1280784/000119312523207986/d542792d8k.htm

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## Key facts
- Material Agreements
  Hercules Capital, Inc. entered into Underwriting Agreement with Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC, UBS Securities LLC and Wells Fargo Securities, LLC, as joint book-running managers (effective 2023-08-07).
  - Action: entry
  - Agreement: underwriting
  - Counterparty: Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC, UBS Securities LLC and Wells Fargo Securities, LLC, as joint book-running managers
  - Effective: 2023-08-07
  source text: On August 7, 2023, Hercules Capital, Inc. (the “Company”) entered into an underwriting agreement (the “Underwriting Agreement”) by and among the Company and Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC, UBS Securities LLC and Wells Fargo Securities, LLC, as joint book-running managers, acting as representatives of the several underwriters named on Schedule I attached thereto (the “Underwriters”), in connection with an underwritten public offering of 6,500,000 shares (the “Offering”) of the Company’s common stock
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1280784/000119312523207986/0001193125-23-207986-index.htm

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