Date: 11/12/2025 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM Join the Rensselaer Alumni Association, Chapter leaders of the RAA NYC chapter, and distinguished alumni and friends for the final event in the RAA's Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital Series, with special guest Collen Costello ’12, CEO and Co-Founder of Vyv. This event will be hosted at RPI's Center for Engineering and Precision Medicine on West 54th Street in Manhattan. In 2024, the RAA announced a three-part speaker series on Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital. In the first of the series, Taking the Plunge, Tobi Saulnier ’84, ’89G, ’94 Ph.D., the founder and CEO of 1st Playable Productions, was our inaugural speaker. The second of our series, Climbing the Mountain, highlighted the work of Professor Jack M. Wilson, President-Emeritus and Distinguished Professor-Emeritus, University of Massachusetts (Chairman), with Degerhan Usluel ’94 (President and CEO) and Mark Bernstein ’94 (VP of Business Development), all are co-founders of ILINC, the developer of the first Synchronous Virtual Classroom. Please join us for our third and final session, Charting the Long-Term Course, as we highlight Costello‘s work at Vyv, a company focused on inventing smarter ways to slow the spread of microbes to make the world a better place.The event will include a networking session with substantial hors d'oeuvres and refreshments prior to and after the official program.