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Heritage Global Inc.

HGBLAsset ManagementSan Diego, United States

Heritage Global Inc., through its various subsidiary companies, operates as a specialized asset services firm, primarily concentrating on transactions involving both financial and industrial assets. The company offers a diverse array of services, including market facilitation, the acquisition and divestiture of assets, professional valuations, and asset-backed lending. Its fundamental approach involves identifying, assessing the worth of, acquiring, and ultimately monetizing a broad spectrum of tangible and intangible assets. Serving both as a strategic consultant and as a direct principal, Heritage Global Inc. actively acquires or brokers deals for a variety of assets such as manufacturing plants, surplus industrial equipment, commercial inventories, portfolios of accounts receivable, intellectual property, and entire business operations. The firm was established in 1983 and its corporate headquarters are located in San Diego, California. It formerly conducted business as Counsel RB Capital Inc. until officially rebranding as Heritage Global Inc. in August 2013.

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Heritage Global Inc. at a glance

Heritage Global Inc. is an asset management company headquartered in San Diego, United States. It is publicly listed (HGBL) with a market capitalisation of $43.6M. Xcout tracks 16 named people at Heritage Global Inc., including Ross Dove (President, Chief Executive Officer & Director).

Industry
Asset Management
Headquarters
San Diego, United States
Market cap
$43.6M
Employees
86
Ticker
HGBL

Heritage Global Inc. leadership

  • Ross DovePresident, Chief Executive Officer & Director
  • David Van LudwigPresident of Financial Assets Division & Board Observer
  • Nicholas Kirk DovePresident of Industrial Assets Division
  • Bruce K. HounsellPresident of Heritage DebtX LLC
  • Thomas LudwigPresident, General Counsel & Chief Compliance Officer of National Loan Exchange Inc.
  • Brian J. CobbChief Financial Officer

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Hercules Capital, Inc.HTGC · Asset ManagementSan Mateo, United States
63% matchPublic

Hercules Capital, Inc. is a business development company. The firm specializing in providing private equity, venture debt, and growth capital to privately held venture capital-backed companies at all stages of development from mid venture to expansion stage including select publicly listed companies and select special opportunity companies that require additional capital to fund acquisitions, recapitalizations and refinancing and established-stage companies. The firm provides growth capital financing solutions for capital extension; management buy-out and corporate spin-out financing solutions; company, asset specific, or intellectual property acquisition financing; convertible, subordinated and/or mezzanine loans; domestic and international corporate expansion; vendor financing; revenue acceleration by sales and marketing development, and manufacturing expansion. It provides asset-based financing with a focus on cash flow; accounts receivable facilities; equipment loans or leases; equipment acquisition; facilities build-out and/or expansion; working capital revolving lines of credit; inventory. The firm also provides bridge financing to IPO or mergers and acquisitions or technology acquisition; dividend recapitalizations and other sources of investor liquidity; cash flow financing to protect against share price volatility; competitor acquisition; pre-IPO financing for extra cash on the balance sheet; public company financing to continue asset growth and production capacity; short-term bridge financing; and strategic and intellectual property acquisition financings. It also focuses on customized financing solutions, emerging growth, mid venture, and late venture financing. The firm invests primarily in structured debt with warrants and, to a lesser extent, in senior debt and equity investments. The firm generally seeks to invest in companies that have been operating for at least six to 12 months prior to the date of their investment. It prefers to invest in technology, SaaS Finance, energy technology, sustainable and renewable technology, and life sciences. Within technology the firm focuses on advanced specialty materials and chemicals; communication and networking, consumer and business products; consumer products and services, digital media and consumer internet; electronics and computer hardware; enterprise software and services; gaming; healthcare services; information services; business services; media, content and information; mobile; resource management; security software; semiconductors; semiconductors and hardware; and software sector. Within energy technology, it invests in agriculture; clean technology; energy and renewable technology, fuels, and power technology; geothermal; smart grid and energy efficiency and monitoring technologies; solar; and wind. Within life sciences, the firm invests in biopharmaceuticals; biotechnology tools; diagnostics; drug discovery, drug platform, development, and delivery; medical devices and equipment; surgical devices; therapeutics; pharma services; and specialty pharmaceuticals. Within sustainable and renewables, it invests in Vehicle Technology, Energy Generation and Storage, Ag Technology, Advanced Materials, and Industry 4.0. It also invests in educational services. The firm invests primarily in United States based companies and considers investment in the West Coast, Mid-Atlantic regions, Southeast and Midwest, particularly in the areas of software, biotech, and information services. The firm prefers to invest between $5 million and $500 million in equity per transactions. It invests in debt between $1 million and $40 million in companies focused primarily on business services, communications, electronics, hardware, and healthcare services. The firm invests primarily in private companies but also have investments in public companies. For equity investments, the firm seeks to represent a controlling interest in its portfolio companies which may exceed 25% of the voting securities of such companies. The firm seeks to invest a limited portion of its assets in equipment-based loans to early-stage prospective portfolio companies. These loans are generally for amounts up to $3 million but may be up to $15 million for certain energy technology venture investments. The firm allows certain debt investments have the right to convert a portion of the debt investment into equity. It also co-invests with other private equity firms. The firm seeks to exit its investments through initial public offering, a private sale of equity interest to a third party, a merger or an acquisition of the company or a purchase of the equity position by the company or one of its stockholders. The firm has structured debt with warrants which typically have maturities of between two and seven years with an average of three years; senior debt with an investment horizon of less than three years; equipment loans with an investment horizon ranging from three to four years; and equity related securities with an investment horizon ranging from three to seven years. The firm prefers to invest through its balance sheet capital. The firm formerly known as Hercules Technology Growth Capital, Inc. Hercules Capital, Inc. was founded in December 2003 and is based in San Mateo, California with additional offices in North America and Europe.

Market cap$3.1B
Employees100
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