UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

FORM 8-K

CURRENT REPORT

Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934

Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported): July 31, 2017 (July 28, 2017)

TriplePoint Venture Growth BDC Corp.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

(650) 854-2090

(Registrant’s telephone number, including area code)

n/a

(Former name or former address, if changed since last report)

Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions (see General Instructions A.2. below):

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On July 28, 2017, the Board of Directors of TriplePoint Venture Growth BDC Corp. (“TPVG” or “the Company”) appointed Andrew J. Olson as the Company’s Chief Financial Officer, to be effective as of August 10, 2017. Mr. Olson also serves as the Chief Financial Officer of TriplePoint Capital LLC, the Company’s sponsor.

Prior to joining TPVG and TriplePoint Capital LLC, Mr. Olson, 34, was an executive officer and the Vice President of Finance and Senior Controller at Hercules Capital, Inc., a publicly traded business development company, from September 2014 to July 2017. From 2006 to 2014 Mr. Olson served as a member of the PricewaterhouseCoopers financial services and banking industry practice group, most recently as a Senior Manager, in San Francisco and Hong Kong. Since 2014, he has served as the Treasurer, Finance Committee Chair and Director for the Randall Museum Friends, a not-for-profit Museum located in San Francisco, CA. Mr. Olson received his B.A. in Business Economics from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and is a Certified Public Accountant in the state of California.

Mr. Olson: (i) was not appointed as the Company’s Chief Financial Officer pursuant to any arrangement or understanding with any other person; (ii) does not have a family relationship with any of the Company’s directors or other executive officers; (iii) has not engaged, since the beginning of the Company’s last fiscal year, nor proposes to engage, in any transaction in which the Company was or is a participant; and (iv) has not entered into, nor expects to enter into, any material plan, contract, arrangement, grant or award in connection with his appointment as the Company’s Chief Financial Officer.

On July 31, 2017, the Company issued a press release announcing the appointment of Mr. Olson as the Company’s Chief Financial Officer. The text of the press release is included as Exhibit 99.1 to this Form 8-K.

(d) Exhibits.

SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.

Date: July 31, 2017