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Related Party Transactions

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Related Party Transactions
6 Months Ended
Jun. 30, 2024
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 advisor business, composed 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. During the three and six months ended June 30, 2024, the Adviser Subsidiary declared and paid dividend distributions to the Company of $1.6 million and $3.2 million, respectively. No dividend distributions were made during the three and six months ended June 30, 2023. Refer to “Note 4 – Investments” for 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 three months ended June 30, 2024 and 2023, are net of expenses allocated to the Adviser Subsidiary of $2.8 million and $2.4 million, respectively. The Company's total expenses for the six months ended June 30, 2024 and 2023, are net of expenses allocated to the Adviser Subsidiary of $5.7 million and $5.1 million, respectively. As of June 30, 2024 and December 31, 2023, there was less than $0.1 million and approximately $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. The assigned investment activities for the six months ended June 30, 2024 and 2023, are summarized below:
(in millions) Six Months Ended June 30,
2024 2023
Investment commitments assigned to or directly committed by the Adviser Funds
$ 337.4  $ 320.4 
Investment fundings assigned to, directly originated or funded by the Adviser Funds
$ 230.1  $ 199.9 
Amounts received by the Company from the Adviser Funds relating to assigned investments
$ 6.0  $ 9.6