Press Release
A Letter From Our CEO, Nic Durish
When we founded Veranda, Terry Sweeney, Joshua Wong, and I came from very different backgrounds and experiences. But we came together with a shared belief:
receiving food, packages, and everyday necessities should be as simple, safe, and reliable as ordering them.
Terry had seen the effects of suboptimal food availability and delivery firsthand through decades of work as a CIO and analytics consultant for major North American grocers, as well as through his role in helping found the Canadian Food Bank system. Josh, an expert in RF and networking technologies and a former director at BlackBerry, recognized a lack of innovation in consumer hardware and communication protocols. And I, through more than a decade of work in software and human-computer interaction - studying the digital divide in rural communities, developing accessible software for municipal governments, and optimizing cloud-server architectures for large enterprises - consistently saw gaps in how software was being used to solve the very real problems people face daily.
Different paths brought us to the same conclusion: access matters, delivery matters, and modern technologies have not yet been leveraged in the final step between people and the deliveries they rely on.
That belief is why we started Veranda, and it is what continues to drive us. It has carried us through long days, difficult technical problems, bug fixes, hardware iterations, software releases, and the countless details involved in turning an idea into a platform people can trust and rely on.
Stepping into the role of Chief Executive Officer is an honour, and it is a responsibility I take seriously. I am committed to continuing the vision first put forward by Terry Sweeney, our original CEO, my co-founder, and now Chairman of our Board of Directors. Terry’s leadership helped give Veranda its foundation, and his continued role ensures that the original purpose of this company remains central as we grow. My responsibility now is to carry that vision forward with urgency, discipline, and care.
My aim is to help build Veranda into the kind of company this problem deserves: technically strong, operationally disciplined, deeply collaborative, and focused on real-world impact. We will continue to advance our hardware and software together, because the experience only works when the entire system works. We will continue to listen to users, partners, advisors, and early supporters. We will move quickly, but carefully. We will build with urgency, but also with respect for the trust placed in us.
2026 is a pivotal year for Veranda. Our partnerships are expanding, our technologies are advancing rapidly, our early users are helping shape the experience in meaningful ways, and the need for better, more reliable delivery infrastructure is only becoming more obvious.
To our partners, advisors, and early users: we are committed to you. Your vote of confidence means more than we can express. Your support has helped turn Veranda into a company with a real opportunity to change how deliveries are completed.
To future partners: we believe the next chapter of delivery can only be built through collaboration. Retailers, grocers, logistics providers, property owners, and technology companies all have a role to play. Veranda intends to be a serious and trusted partner in that work.
And to everyone who has ever missed a delivery, worried about a package, or rearranged a day around a doorstep: we hear you, and we are building Veranda to help.
Nic Durish
Terry had seen the effects of suboptimal food availability and delivery firsthand through decades of work as a CIO and analytics consultant for major North American grocers, as well as through his role in helping found the Canadian Food Bank system. Josh, an expert in RF and networking technologies and a former director at BlackBerry, recognized a lack of innovation in consumer hardware and communication protocols. And I, through more than a decade of work in software and human-computer interaction - studying the digital divide in rural communities, developing accessible software for municipal governments, and optimizing cloud-server architectures for large enterprises - consistently saw gaps in how software was being used to solve the very real problems people face daily.
Different paths brought us to the same conclusion: access matters, delivery matters, and modern technologies have not yet been leveraged in the final step between people and the deliveries they rely on.
That belief is why we started Veranda, and it is what continues to drive us. It has carried us through long days, difficult technical problems, bug fixes, hardware iterations, software releases, and the countless details involved in turning an idea into a platform people can trust and rely on.
Stepping into the role of Chief Executive Officer is an honour, and it is a responsibility I take seriously. I am committed to continuing the vision first put forward by Terry Sweeney, our original CEO, my co-founder, and now Chairman of our Board of Directors. Terry’s leadership helped give Veranda its foundation, and his continued role ensures that the original purpose of this company remains central as we grow. My responsibility now is to carry that vision forward with urgency, discipline, and care.
My aim is to help build Veranda into the kind of company this problem deserves: technically strong, operationally disciplined, deeply collaborative, and focused on real-world impact. We will continue to advance our hardware and software together, because the experience only works when the entire system works. We will continue to listen to users, partners, advisors, and early supporters. We will move quickly, but carefully. We will build with urgency, but also with respect for the trust placed in us.
2026 is a pivotal year for Veranda. Our partnerships are expanding, our technologies are advancing rapidly, our early users are helping shape the experience in meaningful ways, and the need for better, more reliable delivery infrastructure is only becoming more obvious.
To our partners, advisors, and early users: we are committed to you. Your vote of confidence means more than we can express. Your support has helped turn Veranda into a company with a real opportunity to change how deliveries are completed.
To future partners: we believe the next chapter of delivery can only be built through collaboration. Retailers, grocers, logistics providers, property owners, and technology companies all have a role to play. Veranda intends to be a serious and trusted partner in that work.
And to everyone who has ever missed a delivery, worried about a package, or rearranged a day around a doorstep: we hear you, and we are building Veranda to help.
Nic Durish
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