Gladstone Capital Corporation is a business development company specializing in investments in debt and equity securities. The fund primarily invests in various categories of debt of private companies comprising senior loans, senior term loans, second lien term loans, senior subordinated loans, mezzanine loans, and junior subordinated loans. It provides loans for initial acquisition of portfolio companies, add-on acquisitions, middle market, recapitalization, including cash-outs and senior debt reduction and in some cases short-term bridge financing in the range of $5 million to $30 million that generally mature in no more than seven years. For its equity investments, the fund invests in recapitalizations and refinancing existing debt through preferred and common equity or equivalents and warrants to buy stock. The fund takes voting control of the businesses. It targets small and medium-sized private United States businesses that have between $20 million and $500 million in sales. It seeks to exit its investment through strategic acquisitions by other industry participants or financial buyers, initial public offerings of common stock, or other capital market transactions.