re:publica 2014

Elton Rivas is one of the driving forces behind Northeast Florida’s rapidly emerging entrepreneurial community.Rivas is also the visionary and a co-founder of One Spark, The World’s Crowdfunding Festival, which takes place in Jacksonville, Fla. each spring and expands globally to Berlin in September 2014. Rivas has founded or co-founded nearly a dozen successful companies, including CoWork Jax, Zero Confines, LLC, and most recently, KYN, an accelerator program that works side-by-side with startups. Rivas is also a triathlete, speaker and passionate human.