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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-25-046256"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "HTGC"
cik: "0001280784"
company_name: "Hercules Capital, Inc."
filed_at: "2025-03-05T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-25T09:37:45.749588+00:00"
event_type: "debt"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.65
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.65
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Hercules Capital plans $250M convertible notes offering due 2028, with overallotment option

## Summary
- Plans to offer $250M aggregate principal of Convertible Unsecured Notes due Sept 1, 2028.
- Initial purchasers may buy up to an additional $37.5M to cover overallotments.
- Notes are unsecured, pay semiannual interest, convertible under specified circumstances.
- Company will elect to settle conversions in cash, stock, or a combination.
- Net proceeds to fund investments in debt/equity securities and for general corporate purposes.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-25-046256
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: HTGC
- cik: 0001280784
- company_name: Hercules Capital, Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-03-05T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: debt
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.65
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.65
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1280784/000119312525046256/0001193125-25-046256-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1280784/000119312525046256/d899945d8k.htm

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