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Related Party Transactions

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Related Party Transactions
12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2025
Related Party Transactions [Abstract]  
Related Party Transactions Related Party Transactions
As disclosed in “Note 1 - Description of Business”, the Adviser Subsidiary is the Company's wholly owned registered investment adviser business, comprised of the collectively held and presented entities Hercules Adviser LLC, Hercules Capital Management, LLC, and Hercules Partner Holdings, LLC entities. The Adviser Subsidiary is accounted for as a portfolio investment of the Company held at fair value. The Adviser Subsidiary has entered into investment management agreements with its privately offered Adviser Funds, and it receives management fees based on the assets under management of the Adviser Funds. In addition, the general partner interests (the “GP Interests”) held by Hercules Partner Holdings, LLC may receive incentive fees based on the performance of the Adviser Funds. Both the Adviser Subsidiary and Hercules Partner Holdings, LLC are owned by Hercules Capital Management LLC. The following table summarized the total income from the Adviser Subsidiary for the years ended December 31, 2025 and 2024:
(in millions) Year Ended December 31,
2025 2024
Interest income
$ —  $ 0.6 
Dividend income 8.2 6.8
Refer to “Note 4 – Investments” for additional information related to income, gains and losses recognized related to the Company’s investment.
The Company has a shared services agreement (“Sharing Agreement”) with the Adviser Subsidiary, through which the Adviser Subsidiary has access to the Company's human capital resources (including administrative functions) and other resources and infrastructure (including office space and technology). Under the terms of the Sharing Agreement, the Company allocates the related expenses of shared services to the Adviser Subsidiary based on direct time spent, investment activity, and proportion of assets under management depending on the nature of the expense. The Company’s total expenses for the years ended December 31, 2025 and 2024, are net of expenses allocated to the Adviser Subsidiary of $15.2 million and $10.8 million, respectively. As of December 31, 2025 and 2024, there was $1.7 million and less than $0.1 million receivable, respectively from the Adviser Subsidiary.
In addition, the Company may from time-to-time make investments alongside the Adviser Funds or assign a portion of investments to the Adviser Funds in accordance with the Company’s allocation policy. On July 31, 2025, the Company sold $20.0 million of assets to the Adviser Funds at fair value. The assigned investment activities for the years ended December 31, 2025 and 2024, are summarized below:
(in millions) Year Ended December 31,
2025 2024
Investment commitments assigned to or directly committed by the Adviser Funds
$ 1,028.4  $ 562.1 
Investment fundings assigned to, directly originated or funded by the Adviser Funds
579.1 383.2
Amounts received by the Company from the Adviser Funds relating to assigned investments
—  6.0
Assets sold to the Adviser Funds
20.0 —