Hercules Adviser LLC
htgc.com Direct investor
Hercules Adviser LLC is a registered investment advisor and wholly owned subsidiary of Hercules Capital, Inc., a specialty finance company that provides venture growth loans to technology and life sciences companies. It manages institutional funds and focuses on senior secured loans to venture-backed companies.
Hercules Adviser LLC is an investor headquartered in San Mateo, United States, founded in 2021. It invests directly in companies, at growth, in technology and life sciences. Its stated cheque size is $5 – $500 Million. $6 billion in assets under management under management and 700 portfolio companies, as it reports.
“Hercules Capital is the largest business development company focused on venture lending, and the lender of choice for innovative entrepreneurs and their venture capital partners.”
— Hercules Adviser LLC, own website
- Layer
- Direct investor
- Type
- Other
- Stage
- Growth
- Headquarters
- San Mateo, United States
- Invests in
- US
- Sectors
- technology, life sciences
- Cheque size
- $5 – $500 Million
- Founded
- 2021
- Assets under management
- $6 billion in assets under management
- Portfolio
- 700 companies
Team, as Hercules Adviser LLC publishes it
- Scott Bluestein Chief Executive Officer and Chief Investment Officer
- Seth Meyer President
- Andrew Olson Chief Financial Officer
- Kiersten Zaza Botelho Chief Legal Officer and Chief Compliance Officer
- Christian Follmann Chief Operating Officer
- Michael Hara Managing Director, Investor Relations and Corporate Communications
- Kate Kinlin VP, Human Resources
- Charlie Vandis Chief Credit Officer
- Naomi Cheng Corporate Controller
- Jasmine Saadati Director, Corporate Development
- R. Bryan Jadot Senior Managing Director and Group Head - Life Sciences
- Steve Kuo Senior Managing Director and Group Head - Technology
Names and roles exactly as listed on htgc.com. Nothing else about these people is recorded.
Co-invests most often with
Derived from portfolio pages both investors publish themselves: each pair below lists at least one company in common. 339 co-investors found.
- Aisling Capital Management LP 9 shared companies: bridgebio.com, agiletherapeutics.com, compasspathways.com, admabiologics.com…
- Runway Growth Capital LLC 7 shared companies: gynesonics.com, sharethis.com, snagajob.com, ariasystems.com…
- VantagePoint Capital Partners 7 shared companies: brightsourceenergy.com, intelepeer.com, wageworks.com, iwatt.com…
- Manhattan Venture Partners 6 shared companies: shield.ai, pinterest.com, lyft.com, impossiblefoods.com…
- Darwin Ventures, LLC 6 shared companies: pinterest.com, adroll.com, lyft.com, palantir.com…
- EQUIAM 6 shared companies: pinterest.com, lyft.com, impossiblefoods.com, nextdoor.com…
- Sapphire Ventures 6 shared companies: pingidentity.com, 23andme.com, contentful.com, convercent.com…
- Axevil Capital, LLC 5 shared companies: shield.ai, arcticwolf.com, chainalysis.com, impossiblefoods.com…
- Bling Capital 5 shared companies: hermeus.com, wattpad.com, lyft.com, pindrop.com…
- Viking Global Investors LP 5 shared companies: arcticwolf.com, impossiblefoods.com, bridgebio.com, verastem.com…
and 329 more — the graph.
Where this comes from
Every fact above was read from a page Hercules Adviser LLC publishes itself. Nothing is taken from third-party databases. Investment activity (deals, co-investors) is not yet recorded.
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Record 5192 · added 2026-09-03 · link last verified 2026-09-06 · confidence high
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