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Chris Caparon

Co-founder and former CEO at Sephoria Software

Today we’re joined by Chris Caparon, a seasoned entrepreneur and tech veteran. Chris shares his journey from Michigan to sunny California, where he co-founded CForia Software and navigated the turbulent waters of tech business, venture capital and 20 years of highs and lows through every kind of crisis (un)imaginable. Now that he’s exited out the other side, he shares some perspective and excellent lessons learned. Chris founded Cforia Software with his partner Dave McIntyre to build a software company that created a collaborative work environment for their employees and added value to our customers every single day. Cforia was a Fintech pioneer in accounts receivable automation software. After Cforia's 20+ year journey culminated this year with our sale to Highradius, they exited the business. Chris is currently retired but interested in “using my experience to help other entrepreneurs succeed with their companies and projects.” During his tenure at Cforia, the company acquired over 250 companies world-wide who operated in over 110 countries. The platform managed over 450 Billion USD in yearly accounts receivable in 2023. …when you do things like that. It speaks for you as a company, as a person. It speaks to the time and the camaraderie that was out there on the road with all those road warriors. But you have a customer for life, and you do things like that. And that informed really the esprit de corps that we had as a company throughout our life cycle.