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Innergy

Founded 2015 · Minnesota millwork roots · $44M Mainsail (2024)
👤 Marc Sanderson (Marc bought an architectural-millwork shop in 1997 and ran it for years, then founded Innergy in 2015 to fix pain he lived daily.)🌐 siteLinkedIn

He bought a millwork shop in 1997, lived its chaos, then in 2015 built the ERP those same shops now rent.

Will it work? · our read
Lived the pain. Not a lucky niche bet — 18 years of shop-floor know-how got encoded into software. The TAM ceiling is real, but inside millwork he is nearly unassailable.
01How the money moves
Millwork shop can't run bids and jobs on generic tools
Adopts Innergy: estimating -> fabrication -> field install
Pays a recurring subscription, priced by quote (Innergy publishes no pricing) -> about $25M revenue in 2025
02The numbers
$25MStated2025 revenue (stated)
2025
the sentence on the pageproject management, engineering, fabrication, and field installation. In 2025, the company reached roughly $25M in revenue, is growing more than 50% annually, and expects to approach $40M in 2026.…
$25M
2025 revenue
50%+
YoY growth
95%
retention
Revenue is founder-stated on the Practical Founders podcast, not audited. Practical Founders
About $25M in 2025, growing 50%+ a year, about 95% retention (founder-stated).
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SourcesSources last checked 25 August 2026
Revenue (about $25M, 2025), 50%+ growth and about 95% retention are founder-stated on the Practical Founders podcast (STATED, not audited) — marked verified as a first-party on-air disclosure. The $42B in live bids and 5M+ sheets are cumulative platform stats from Mainsail's release, NOT revenue. Mainsail's $44M growth investment is public (Aug 2024 PR); the "51% majority for $40M+ in 2025" framing comes from the podcast summary and may conflate the same deal. The insider-advantage read is [our read], strongly supported by the documented 1997 shop purchase and 2015 Innergy founding. We never score you.