Thank you, Michael, and thank you all for joining the Hercules Capital Q3 2023 earnings call. Our best-in-class venture and growth stage lending platform continued to deliver record earnings and operating performance in Q3 as well as delivering record year-to-date gross fundings of $1.29 billion, which represents an increase of over 17% year-over-year. We were able to achieve record Q3 results despite continued volatility in both the equity and credit markets as well as across the broader global macro landscape. While we are pleased with our continued record operating performance in Q3 and remain optimistic about our positioning in the asset class and our ability to capture further market share over the coming quarters, we continue to take steps to manage our business defensively while maintaining the ability to play offense as the market improves. This includes enhancing our liquidity position, maintaining very low leverage, tightening our credit screens for new underwritings and driving our first lien exposure up to over 87%, our highest level since Q1 2017. During Q3, we experienced many of the same themes that we have been discussing over the last several quarters with one notable exception capital raising across our portfolio remains strong, exceeding the level of activity that we saw in Q2. Rising rates combined with higher onboarding yields and an increased weighted average portfolio balance drove total investment income, core investment income, and net investment income to record levels. M&A activity and interest continues to be strong across our portfolio and we expect several additional M&A exits over the coming quarters. Our differentiated business model, which is predicated on asset and liability diversification, fundamental credit underwriting, and longstanding relationships with over a thousand venture capital and private equity investors has continued to serve us well and allows us to outperform in a variety of macro environments. For the remainder of 2023, our focus will remain on prudent underwriting, diversification and maintaining an abundance of liquidity. Let me recap some of the key highlights of our performance for Q3. In Q3, we generated record total investment income of $116.7 million, up over 38% year-over-year, and record net investment income of $76.8 million, up over 53% year-over-year, or $0.52 per share, and providing 130% coverage of our base distribution of $0.40 per share. This is our fourth consecutive quarter of delivering record net investment income. We also generated return on equity in Q3 of over 20% for the second consecutive quarter. Our portfolio generated a GAAP effective yield of 15.5% in Q3 and a core yield of 14.2%, which is indicative of the recent rate increases and higher onboarding yields for certain new loans. With GAAP leverage at a very conservative 99.8% and continued, robust liquidity across our platform, our balance sheet remains very well positioned. Although we have managed to deliver record year-to-date gross new fundings, we continue to expect the market environment for new deals in our asset class to improve over the coming quarters. Having a strong and diversified balance sheet with maximum liquidity will be a key differentiator for our platform and best positions Hercules to capitalize on the market opportunity that we continue to believe is in front of us. The focus of our origination efforts in Q3 was once again on diversification with an emphasis on later stage and more scaled opportunities. Our Q3 originations activity was driven by both our technology and life sciences teams delivering healthy funding performance during the quarter, although our new business activity was intentionally weighted more towards the life sciences side. In Q3, approximately 56% of our fundings were to life sciences companies, while approximately 68% of our commitments during the quarter were to life sciences companies. Our unique ability to excel in both technology and life sciences lending, at the same time with dedicated teams in each vertical, helps drive consistent outperformance relative to our peer group. We funded debt capital to 28 different companies in Q3, of which ten were new borrower relationships. Consistent with what we have seen throughout the year, we expanded our funding relationship with numerous portfolio companies that continue to show strength and achieve performance milestones during the third quarter. In addition, the strong level of funding to existing companies also helped to maintain our available unfunded commitments at $400 million, which was up slightly from $381 million in Q2. Approximately 31% of our available unfunded commitments will expire by the end of the year driving higher expected follow-on fundings through the end of 2023. As we guided to on our Q2 earnings call, our quarterly funding activity in Q3 was backend weighted with over 50% of our quarterly fundings coming in the month of September. This theme is likely to repeat in Q4. After an atypically strong Q3 for originations, we expect our origination activity in Q4 to moderate slightly, although we remain on track to deliver record annual gross fundings in 2023. Since the close of Q3 and as of October 31, 2023, our deal team has closed $34 million of new commitments and funded $42.7 million. We have pending commitments of an additional $290 million in signed non-binding term sheets. The bar for us on new originations remains very high and we continue to pass on the vast majority of deals that we are currently seeing in the market. We are increasingly hearing from prospective portfolio companies about the importance of partnering with a lender that has a strong balance sheet and staying power, and this gives us great confidence in our ability to continue to generate and deliver quality asset growth over the coming quarters. Although portfolio company exits and liquidity events for the industry continue to be slow, we are pleased with the activity our portfolio has experienced so far this year. Year-to-date as of today, we have had one portfolio company complete their IPO and two additional portfolio companies which have filed for IPOs along with 13 portfolio companies completing M&A transactions. Our portfolio company enGene Holdings just completed their SPAC merger IPO on November 1. We expect additional M&A transactions for our portfolio companies to close over the coming quarters. Our portfolio activity continues to validate the great work and underwriting that our investment teams do. As we anticipated early loan repayments decreased in Q3 to approximately $148 million, which came in slightly below our guidance of $175 million to $250 million. For Q4 2023, we expect prepayments to increase from Q3 levels and be in the range of $150 million to $250 million. Although, this could change as we progress in the quarter. Credit quality of the debt investment portfolio remained relatively stable. Our weighted average internal credit rating of 2.28 increased slightly from the 2.24 rating in Q2 and remains within the normal historical range. Our Grade 1 and Grade 2 credits improved to 62.1% compared to 59.4% in Q2. Grade 3 credits were lower at 34.5% in Q3 versus 38.3% in Q2. Our rated 4 credits increased slightly to 2.6% and rated 5 credits increased to 0.8% in Q3 as a result of one loan being downgraded to a 5 during the quarter. Subsequent to quarter-end, one of our rated 4 loans paid off their outstanding obligations to Hercules in full. In Q3, we added one debt investment on non-accrual. We have two debt investments on non-accrual with an investment cost and fair value of approximately $88.1 million and $24.6 million respectively, or 2.7% and 0.8% as a percentage of the company's total investment portfolio at cost and value respectively. As of our most recent reporting, 100% of our debt portfolio companies remain current on contractual payments to Hercules. The one new loan added to non-accrual during Q3 was our secured debt investment in Convoy. Our workout efforts remain ongoing and we continue to work with Convoy to maximize our ultimate recovery. We believe that Convoy was a unique situation that resulted from a perfect storm of events that negatively impacted Convoy and its ability to continue operating and raise more equity capital. At the same time, ongoing and accelerating turmoil and pressure across the broader freight market landscape negated the ability for Convoy to find a strategic buyer for the business as a going concern. Based on our efforts to-date, we currently believe that our net recovery will meet or exceed our Q3 fair value mark and that our recovery efforts will likely wrap up early next year, although, the situation remains ongoing and fluid. With respect to our broader credit book and outlook, we generally remain pleased by what we are seeing on a portfolio level. Our focus on credit underwriting and a diversified asset base is continuing to serve us well. We are seeing general outperformance and positive momentum in terms of capital raising, M&A activity and milestone achievement throughout our life sciences book, while things remain more muted on the technology side with respect to the same. Public market valuations for growth stage tech and life sciences companies pulled back considerably in Q3, putting additional pressure on fundraising for certain private companies. Despite this and continued increased selectivity and valuation sensitivity from venture capital investors, capital raising across our portfolio remains strong in Q3 with 23 companies raising over $2 billion in new capital in Q3, this was the strongest quarter of new capital raising in our portfolio over the last year and a half. During Q3 2023, Hercules had net realized losses of $2.6 million, comprised of net realized gains of $0.9 million due to the gain on investment funds and debt investments offset by $3.5 million due to the loss on equity and warrant investments. Through Q3, we have generated $5.6 million of realized gains year-to-date. Our net asset value per share in Q3 was $10.93, a slight decrease of 0.3% from Q2 2023. We ended Q3 with strong liquidity of almost $600 million inclusive of available liquidity and our private funds, we have more than $900 million of liquidity as of the end of Q3. Our balance sheet is strong and stable and it puts us in an advantageous position to be able to benefit from a business environment that we anticipate will get better over the next several quarters. Venture capital ecosystem fundraising and investment activity continued to stay at muted levels relative to the historical highs that we witnessed in 2021 and 2022 with fundraising activity at approximately $43 billion and investment activity at approximately $126 billion for the first three quarters of 2023, respectively according to data gathered by PitchBook-NVCA. In terms of VC investment activity, Q3 was equal to Q2 with $40 billion of new investments. Year-to-date, Q3 2023 investment levels have already exceeded 2019’s $103 billion, and the number of investment deals is more than double the number in 2019, 9,962 deals versus 4,431 deals. We expect fundraising to stay at much lower levels than prior years and investment activity to remain stable as we approach the end of the year. With our record operating performance year-to-date, we exited Q3 with increased undistributed earnings spillover of over $155 million or $1.03 per ending shares outstanding. For Q3 maintained our base distribution of $0.40 and declared a supplemental distribution of $0.08 for a total of $0.48 of shareholder distributions. In closing, our scale institutionalized lending platform and our ability to capitalize on a rapidly changing competitive and macro environment continues to drive our business forward and our operating performance to record levels. In Q3, Hercules delivered its second consecutive quarter of over $100 million of quarterly core income, which excludes the benefit of prepayment fees or fee accelerations from early repayments. Our success is attributable to the tremendous dedication, efforts, and capabilities of our 100 plus employees and the trust that our venture capital and private equity partners place with us every day. We are thankful to the many companies, management teams, and investors that continue to make Hercules their partner of choice. I also want to acknowledge the handful of portfolio companies that we have and certain of our VC partners and investors that are being impacted by the terrorist attack that took place on October 7 and the events that have followed. I will now turn the call over to Seth.