Hercules Capital

Summary

In 2003 was created Hercules Capital, Inc., which is appeared as VC. The main department of described VC is located in the Palo Alto. The company was established in North America in United States.

The current fund was established by Manuel A. Henriquez, Scott Harvey. Besides them, we counted 5 critical employees of this fund in our database.

The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2010. The important activity for fund was in 2014. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. Comparing to the other companies, this Hercules Capital, Inc. performs on 24 percentage points more the average number of lead investments. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 6 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The fund is constantly included in 7-12 deals per year.

Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Medical, Therapeutics. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Anacor Pharmaceutical, Machine Zone, Zayo. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund. The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 4 of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 participants. Despite the Hercules Capital, Inc., startups are often financed by VantagePoint Capital Partners, OrbiMed, InterWest Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are InterWest Partners, Venrock, Kleiner Perkins. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Venrock, Steamboat Ventures, General Motors Ventures.