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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-24-165173"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "HTGC"
cik: "0001280784"
company_name: "Hercules Capital, Inc."
filed_at: "2024-06-21T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-01T02:43:40.382131+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.6
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Hercules Capital Stockholders Elect Three Directors and Approve Compensation at Annual Meeting

## Summary
- Stockholders elected Gayle Crowell, Thomas J. Fallon, and Nikos Theodosopoulos as Class II independent directors with over 60 million votes each.
- Advisory vote on named executive officer compensation passed with 60,966,984 votes for and 6,573,236 against.
- Ratification of PricewaterhouseCoopers as independent auditor for FY2024 approved with 117,365,924 votes for.
- Proposal to authorize sale of shares below NAV was adjourned without opening polls; reconvenes August 15, 2024.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-24-165173
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: HTGC
- cik: 0001280784
- company_name: Hercules Capital, Inc.
- filed_at: 2024-06-21T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.6
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.07, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1280784/000119312524165173/0001193125-24-165173-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1280784/000119312524165173/d839207d8k.htm

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