---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001437749-25-037841"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "HRZN"
cik: "0001487428"
company_name: "Horizon Technology Finance Corp"
filed_at: "2025-12-15T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-16T13:12:14.248900+00:00"
event_type: "debt"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.55
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Horizon Tech Finance issues $57.5M of 7.00% Notes due 2028, proceeds to redeem 2026 Notes

## Summary
- Issued $57.5M aggregate principal of 7.00% Notes due Dec 15, 2028; interest paid semiannually.
- Notes rank pari passu with existing unsecured debt (4.875% due 2026, 6.25% due 2027, etc.).
- Net proceeds will redeem outstanding 2026 Notes and for general corporate purposes.
- Fifth Supplemental Indenture executed with U.S. Bank National Association as trustee.
- Offering closed Dec 15, 2025 under previously filed N-2 registration statement.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001437749-25-037841
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: HRZN
- cik: 0001487428
- company_name: Horizon Technology Finance Corp
- filed_at: 2025-12-15T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: debt
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.55
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 1.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1487428/000143774925037841/0001437749-25-037841-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1487428/000143774925037841/hrzn20251215_8k.htm

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## Key facts
- Material Agreements
  Horizon Technology Finance Corp entered into Fifth Supplemental Indenture with U.S. Bank National Association valued at $57.5 million (effective 2025-12-15).
  - Action: entry
  - Agreement: notes offering
  - Counterparty: U.S. Bank National Association
  - Value: $57.5 million
  - Effective: 2025-12-15
  source text: On December 15, 2025, in connection with a previously announced public offering, Horizon Technology Finance Corporation (the “Company”) and U.S. Bank National Association, as trustee (the “Trustee”), entered into a Fifth Supplemental Indenture (the “Fifth Supplemental Indenture”) to the Indenture, dated March 23, 2012, between the Company and the Trustee (together with the Fifth Supplemental Indenture, the “Indenture”).
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1487428/000143774925037841/0001437749-25-037841-index.htm

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