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ProShop ERP
👤 Paul Van Metre (Co-founded machine shop Pro CNC with 3 friends, ran it 15 years on software they wrote, sold the shop in 2014 to sell the ERP.)🌐 siteLinkedIn
Four friends built software to run their own machine shop for 15 years, sold the shop, then sold the software.
Will it work? · our read
Insider-built. Fifteen years of running the shop is the product. But growth goes through implementation teams, not downloads, and every new shop costs real humans.
01How the money moves
Precision shop runs on paper travelers and spreadsheets
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ProShop replaces the whole stack in the browser
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Shop pays ProShop, year after year
02The numbers
7 yrsEstimaterevenue never disclosed
2026-07
ProShop has never published revenue. These are the numbers the company and its co-founder put on the record themselves.
Founder-financed for seven years, then a $32M growth investment from Mainsail Partners in 2023. ProShop has never published a revenue figure.
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Mainsail Partners — "ProShop ERP Receives $32 Million Growth Investment from Mainsail Partners"; Van Metre: "the past seven years as a founder-financed company," July 2023.Practical Founders #87 — "Over 15 years, they created and improved software to run their entire business"; "NPS scores are over 70"; "we kick prospects out of our sales funnel all the time".BetaKit — the four co-founders, Pro CNC sold to Trulife in 2014, "a founder-financed company for seven years".Epicor — "KKR sold Epicor to Clayton, Dubilier and Rice (CD&R) for $4.7 billion" (rival anchor).
ProShop has never published revenue. The proshoperp.com domain currently blocks automated fetchers on every page we tried (homepage, pricing, and its own press release all returned 403), so nothing hosted there could be verified directly. We headline "7 yrs": Van Metre's own words, "the past seven years as a founder-financed company," printed on Mainsail Partners' investment-announcement page and echoed by BetaKit. The $32M growth investment is not revenue; its source is now that same Mainsail page, since ProShop's own release page would not load. Mainsail's stake size was never disclosed. NPS over 70 and the 15-year build are Van Metre's own unaudited claims on the Practical Founders podcast. The per-user, monthly pricing line could not be confirmed while proshoperp.com/pricing stays blocked, so money-flow now says only that a shop keeps paying ProShop, year after year. Founding year 2016 is [our read] from BetaKit's "founder-financed for seven years" in 2023. Rival anchors: Epicor's figure is from Epicor's own about page; ECI's 22,000 customers is trade press, because ECI's own site would not load for us. Van Metre's LinkedIn URL is the one the Practical Founders episode page links to; LinkedIn itself blocks us (999), so we have not opened it. No drama invented — there was no fight, no pivot: they ran a shop for 15 years and sold what they had already built. We never score you.