Hercules Capital Receives Stockholder Approval to Reduce Its Asset Coverage Requirement to 150%

PALO ALTO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Hercules Capital, Inc. (NYSE: HTGC) (“Hercules” or the “Company”), the leading specialty finance company to innovative, venture growth, pre-IPO and M&A stage companies backed by leading venture capital firms, today announced that its stockholders approved the proposal to reduce its asset coverage requirement from 200% to 150% at the Company's special stockholders meeting (“Special Meeting”) held on December 6, 2018. This reduction applies the modified asset coverage requirements as amended by the Small Business Credit Availability Act (“SBCAA”), which was passed into law on March 23, 2018.