Catherine Horelick

Catherine E. Horelick is a Vice President at Cortec Group, a New York-based private equity firm focused on middle-market companies. Cortec’s team page says she joined the firm in 2019 and currently serves as Vice President.

Before Cortec, Horelick was an investment banking Analyst at Wells Fargo Securities, where she worked on mergers and acquisitions, debt and equity financings, and strategic and financial advisory assignments. MarketScreener and The Org further indicate that she joined Cortec in July 2019 as an Associate before later becoming Vice President.

Horelick holds a B.A. from the University of Southern California. MarketScreener lists her degree as International Relations and Global Business, while LinkedIn shows her USC attendance from 2013 to 2017.

• Cortec is not a seed or angel investor based on its current public materials; it is a private equity firm investing in middle-market companies.
• The firm’s stated sector focus is controlling investments in consumer, healthcare, and specialty products and services companies.
• Cortec looks for “growing, highly profitable, market-leading businesses” with owners who want to reinvest materially and work with an experienced partner.
• Cortec’s May 2026 firm overview lists investment criteria of $15 million to $70 million of annual EBITDA and up to $500 million of equity committed per platform.
• The firm emphasizes hands-on value creation, stating: “We are business builders, not financial engineers.”
• Cortec prefers control investments but says it has been the first institutional investor in the vast majority of its platform investments.
• Cortec focuses on U.S. and Canadian companies and has particular interest in entrepreneur-led and family-owned businesses.