Nycwomen.connect Drives Relationships Between Women Entrepreneurs And Investors, Business Leaders

Women entrepreneurs from several industries will present their companies to an audience of investors, business leaders, and other service professionals at the NYCwomen.connect forum on May 17.

NYCwomen.connect is an intimate forum and networking series for leaders committed to promoting and supporting women in business. The event provides an opportunity to learn about companies owned or founded by women entrepreneurs, while making new friendships and business alliances.

Sponsored by Hodgson Russ LLP, J.H. Cohn LLP, Cato Capital and SaddleRock Advisors, the event will take place from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. at the offices of Hodgson Russ LLP in New York City. To register for this complimentary event, limited to approximately 100 attendees, go to http://bit.ly/nyc-wc.

"The leaders of our three presenting companies each have an impressive vision of how to innovate in their respective industries," said event organizer Ted King, Managing Director, SaddleRock Advisors. "NYCwomen.connect introduces these companies to the New York business community while giving attendees the opportunity to share business insights and forge the relationships that drive investment."

Keynote Speaker: Liddy Karter, Enhanced Capital, LLC

Following a late afternoon cocktail and networking reception, attendees will hear from keynote speaker Liddy Karter, managing director, Enhanced Capital, LLC. Enhanced Capital invests in middle-market companies across all sectors, including cleantech, heath care, advanced manufacturing, and IT. Karter serves as executive director of the CT Venture Group, a regional trade association for venture capital funds, and previously served as managing partner of IRON Ventures, LLC, a woman-owned venture fund investing in sustainable business ventures nation-wide.

Presenting Companies:

Take the Interview is a company that changes the way people hire. Its software enables hiring managers and recruiters to ask candidates their most important questions via asynchronous, or not-live, video interviewing. Through its easy-to-use platform, Take the Interview makes the hiring process more efficient by eliminating the need for time-consuming phone screens. Take the Interview improves organizational efficiency by more than 90 percent and has been featured in Inc. Magazine, The Boston Herald, The Boston Globe, and on Fox Business News. Since inception, Take the Interview has served more than 200 companies and facilitated thousands of interviews.

MyCityWay was co-founded by Sonpreet Bhatia, Puneet Mehta, and Archana Patchirajan in 2009. MyCityWay is a real-time, personalized, geo-aware urban reference for mobile devices. MyCityWay's newest creation, MyCityWay Now, is an urban mobility platform and mobile app that turns handheld devices into mega-utility tools. For the first time, a mobile urban reference app will offer a personalized, real-time, all-access dashboard that instantly connects users to up-to-the-minute, usable information on everything from local news, transit updates, the cheapest gas prices, retail sales, restaurant deals, movie tickets, or even the closest free Wi-Fi hotspot. With investors including FirstMark Capital, BMW i Ventures, IA Ventures, and the NYC Economic Development Corp., the newest launch from MyCityWay follows a succession of award-winning apps in 70 markets across the world, including the United States, Canada, Europe, and Asia.

Reclip.It, formerly known as CityPockets, is a social commerce catalog for people to share deals, coupons, and products on sale. CityPockets brings together hundreds of thousands of coupon blogs and deal sites to one platform to create a social shopping experience that allows users to see what deals other people are interested in. CityPockets aims to eventually carry the sale section of every bra