Charlotte Angel Connection Episode 060: Cor Hoekstra, CEO of Amicus Solutions

Charlotte Angel Connection

Today we have Cor Hoekstra joining us on the podcast. Cor is the CEO of Amicus Solutions, a local Charlotte startup who has been through the QC Fintech accelerator program and continues to build momentum. Cor and his team got some great news earlier this year which spurred us to having this podcast so we will cover that. In today’s podcast, I want to cover some of the basics of the business as it stands now. We’ll start out with some of the basics of the business – background, idea state, etc. Then we will get into the QC Fintech Accelerator program and his latest round of good news and what that does for the company. For our next podcast, we will circle back through and talk some about the personal experience of Cor the entrepreneur and Cor the CEO of Amicus. In other words, I’m slowly changing our format here. I hope you enjoy it. In today’s podcast we cover some of the following: Can you give us a little background information on what Amicus does? Based on your LinkedIn profile, you’ve been working on Amicus for almost two years. When did the idea come to you though? What did your wife (family) say when you told them of the project? You choose to go through the QC Fintech Accelerator program in Spring 2017. Why and what did you get out of it? In what likely seemed like an eternity, it wasn’t until late Spring in 2018 that you got some really positive news from the company? Tell us about the Wells Fargo opportunity? What does it mean for Amicus over the next 6-12 months and beyond? Have you ‘made it’? If not, what are the next key hurdles for you to clear? Stick around next week as we dive deeper into the conversation with Cor on both Amicus and his family. It’s worth the wait.