# Verndale

> Verndale is a Boston-founded digital experience agency that designs, builds, and runs the websites, commerce platforms, and data pipelines behind big brands. Founded in 1998 by the Pisapia brothers, it grew into one of the most-awarded Sitecore and Optimizely partners in North America. In February 2025 private-equity firm Trinity Hunt Partners took a majority stake - and Verndale flipped into acquisition mode, buying five specialist agencies in the two years that followed.

- **Founded:** 1998
- **Headquarters:** Boston, United States
- **Founders:** Chris Pisapia (CEO and Co-Founder), Matt Pisapia (Co-Founder)
- **Team size:** ~300-390 employees across four offices
- **Products:** CMS & DXP Implementation, Digital Commerce, Salesforce Solutions, Data, Analytics & AI, Experience Strategy & UX Design
- **Notable:** Optimizely Premier Platinum Partner and multi-year Partner of the Year (2021, 2023, plus Customer Choice Partner of the Year 2024/2025)., Won three global categories at the 2024 Sitecore Partner Experience Awards: Global Customer Success, Global Strategic Excellence, and Solution Partner Innovation., Named to the Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing US companies multiple times between 2008 and 2016.

## Products & services

- **CMS & DXP Implementation** — Designs and builds sites and digital experience platforms on Sitecore, Optimizely, Contentful, Contentstack, Adobe, Umbraco, WordPress and Webflow - including headless and composable architectures.
- **Digital Commerce** — Ecommerce and D2C builds across Optimizely Configured Commerce, Shopify, BigCommerce and Salesforce Commerce Cloud, plus B2B commerce and retention/lifecycle marketing.
- **Salesforce Solutions** — Crest-level Salesforce partner work spanning Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Marketing Cloud and CRM strategy.
- **Data, Analytics & AI** — Customer data platforms, analytics, personalization engines and AI solutions built on Snowflake, BigQuery, Databricks and modern data stacks.
- **Experience Strategy & UX Design** — Research, digital strategy, UX/UI and product design to shape the customer journey before a line of code is written.
- **Managed Services** — Ongoing hosting, optimization, support and platform governance after launch - the recurring-revenue backbone of the agency.

## Achievements

- Optimizely Premier Platinum Partner and multi-year Partner of the Year (2021, 2023, plus Customer Choice Partner of the Year 2024/2025).
- Won three global categories at the 2024 Sitecore Partner Experience Awards: Global Customer Success, Global Strategic Excellence, and Solution Partner Innovation.
- Named to the Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing US companies multiple times between 2008 and 2016.
- Grew from an apartment startup to four offices across Boston, Montreal, Los Angeles and Quito.
- Completed five agency acquisitions in roughly two years following the Trinity Hunt investment.

## Latest updates

- **2026-03** — Acquired Homestead Studio, a D2C retention and Klaviyo Master Elite agency, adding full-funnel growth capabilities.
- **2026-01** — Acquired the Vaan Group (Shopify Platinum D2C agency) and the Product Experience Division of Amp from Advantage Solutions.
- **2025-11** — Acquired Fishtank, a Sitecore Platinum Partner in Alberta, Canada, to build a SitecoreAI experience practice.
- **2025-02** — Trinity Hunt Partners took a majority stake and launched a Digital CX services platform pairing Verndale with design firm Craft.
- **2024-03** — Acquired Yaksa, a Montreal-based digital commerce agency, to expand ecommerce services.

## Links

- Website: https://verndale.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/verndale
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/verndaletweets
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@verndale
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lifeatverndale
- Facebook: https://facebook.com/p/Verndale-100063587469955/

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Last updated: 2026-08-19