Denver · Capital Strategy
Become Capital Fluent. Before You Need To Be.
Capfluent is a Denver strategic finance and capital advisory practice for founder-led companies. We help founders proactively understand how investors and lenders will assess the value of their business, preparing them for the moments that matter most.
The Advisory Model
We help you build a business that's worth more
Most fractional CFOs help you run the business. Capfluent helps you grow it. We partner with founders to identify and optimize the most impactful growth levers for your business. Our approach delivers practical outcomes that maximize business value.
Future focused, outcomes driven
Finance-first, not accounting-first. Your books tell you what already happened; Capfluent works on the choice in front of you, through capital readiness, valuation and scenario modeling.
You know when to move, and when to wait
We thoroughly assess your capital readiness and recommend the steps your business needs to take to secure the most attractive terms for a deal.
Engagements centered on founder objectives
You know your business from the inside out. We work from the outside in, tailoring our proven capital advisory approach to your unique goals.
Principal-led expertise, with you at every step
Founders need trusted advisors and trust is built on experience. When the deal gets done, the advisor by your side brings 20+ years experience to the table.
LeVon Terry
Founder & CEO
With 20+ years' experience across the investment landscape, LeVon knows the levers that matter for investors and founders alike. His background in investment banking, investment management, and private equity, along with his experience as an investor and founder equips clients with expert advocacy at every step.
- Private Equity · Investment Banking · Fintech
- BSc Economics, University of Dayton
- Colorado Companies to Watch Judge
The Value of Capital Readiness
Companies with a Value Builder Score of 80 or above receive acquisition offers 71% higher than average-scoring businesses
Source: The Value Builder System
Companies that go to market prepared do not just sell. They sell for materially more. The advisory practice is how a founder-led company gets there.
Know your Compounding Score
A free enterprise-value and readiness score. Reach out to find out what your score is, and we will walk you through what it means. It is the fastest way to see where your business stands today, and where the value is hiding, before you ever take on a partner.
A Separate Track · The Capital Fluency Lab
Learn capital from the people who write the checks
For earlier-stage, Denver-metro founders who want to learn their options first, the Lab runs as four half-day sessions over four months, all held in person in Denver. LeVon convenes every session, and real lenders, investors, and capital partners join the room. You leave with a 12-month Capital Plan you can act on.
You learn every funding path
The Lab covers debt, equity, venture capital, and non-dilutive funding. You learn how each one works while you still have time to choose between them.
Real experts in the room
Every session includes a live panel of real lenders, investors, and capital partners. You ask them your own questions directly.
The Four Lenses
You work through Strategy, Structure, Story, and Source, the four-lens framework LeVon has used on both sides of the table.
A 12-month Capital Plan
You leave with a written 12-month Capital Plan and a readiness checklist you own.
Industry Data · Federal Reserve
Asking for capital is not the same as getting it
Every year the Federal Reserve asks small businesses how their financing applications went. The Capital Fluency Lab helps founders understand what lenders and investors need to see, and prepare it long before an application goes in.
Source: Federal Reserve Small Business Credit Survey
Source: Federal Reserve Small Business Credit Survey
Two Ways to Engage
Partner with an expert. Or learn with a cohort.
Advisory Services
Get in touch for a consultation
For established founder-led companies, roughly $5 to $25M in revenue and anywhere in the country. Capfluent works alongside your leadership team as your strategic finance partner.
- CFO-level financial leadership
- Value-creation advisory
- Sell-side and exit advisory
- Bespoke to your decision, principal-led
Principal-led: the person on your first call is the person in your lender meetings.
Capital Fluency Lab
$1,995 tuition · 4 sessions over 4 months
For earlier-stage, Denver-metro founders who want to learn their options first. The Lab runs in person in Denver as four half-day sessions over four months, with real lenders and investors on every panel.
- Debt, equity, venture capital and non-dilutive paths
- Live panels of matched capital providers
- A 12-month Capital Plan you own
- For post-revenue founders in the Denver metro
Real lenders and investors on every session panel.
The Lab and the advisory practice are separate engagements, and neither requires the other. Advisory engagements are bespoke to your decision, not sold off a menu; pricing is discussed on a strategy call. Advisory only, not an RIA or broker-dealer.
Capital Fluency
The best capital decisions are never made under pressure
Growth creates capital questions that don't arrive on a convenient schedule. Put your plan in place before the moment arrives.
Recognition
A Denver name the founder ecosystem already vouches for
Frequently Asked Questions
I'm not raising money right now. Is this still for me?
That's exactly the right time. Capital decisions are never made well for the first time under pressure, and the Federal Reserve's own survey shows what urgency costs: 22% of applicant firms received none of the financing they sought. The Capital Fluency Lab builds your 12-month plan before the moment demands one.
How is this different from other Denver fractional CFO shops?
Most sell hours, or staff a finance function and hand it to an analyst. Capfluent is built around one decision at a time, delivered by the principal. That judgment was earned on the investor side of the table, and the Denver founder ecosystem knows the name: LeVon holds a seat judging the 2026 Colorado Companies to Watch class.
Is the Lab a prerequisite for the advisory work?
No. They are separate engagements, and neither requires the other. Founders start with whichever fits the decision in front of them: the Lab if you want to learn your capital options in a room with real providers, advisory if you want an ongoing strategic-finance partner.
I already have a bookkeeper and an accountant. Why add this?
Accounting tells you what happened. We help you decide what to do next: capital readiness, valuation and scenario modeling, and investor and lender relations, informed by a career spent where the investors sit. Your books stay in the background so strategy stays in the foreground.
Do you raise capital, or take a percentage of my raise or sale?
No. Capital options are taught in the Lab and advised on in the advisory engagements; they are never executed, placed, or brokered. Any exit support is offered to existing advisory clients at flat engagement fees, never a percentage of transaction value.
Do I have to be in Denver?
The in-person Capital Fluency Lab is for Denver-metro founders. The advisory practice works with founder-led companies anywhere.
Not investment, legal, or tax advice.
Put a finance-first partner on your side of the table
Bring the capital decision you're weighing and pressure-test it with someone who has led 1,500+ investor pitches.
Advisory only. Not an RIA or broker-dealer. No guaranteed outcomes, just a clearer plan.