We are Cienda

A family office committed to building communities and making investments that change people's lives for the better.

“Doing well by doing good.”

– Benjamin Franklin

Philip Wise and Barry Hancock- Founding Partners of Cienda

April Allen -President and COO of the Southern Gateway Public Green Foundation

Barry Hancock and Philip Wise- Founding

Matt Gillen- VP of Acquisitions

We started Cienda Partners as a family office, by committing $10 million of our own funds, and our business, civic and non-profit relationships to start the business.

Since that beginning, over 40 high net worth families and institutional investors have invested with Cienda Partners in 45 investments acquiring in excess of $400 million of unique real estate assets and over $1 billion in face value loan positions.

Using conservative leverage of less than 31%, those investments that have been fully liquidated, have generated a 26% Net IRR to Cienda’s investors, and the remaining 14 legacy or partially realized investments held over a year have already returned all of the funds invested.

Since June 30, 2021, Cienda has made over $90 million in new investments and closed over $55 million of new liquidity events.

Currently, Cienda manages equity positions valued at over $200 million on an asset base of over $360 million.

Investment Highlights

Team

Seasoned investment and operating team with independent board aligned with investors.
Strategy

Focused Investment Strategy- using proprietary relationships, we focus on unique real estate and other investments in the Southwest.
Relationships

Extensive industry relationships in real estate and tech. Over 82% of our investments have been in off-market opportunities.
Track Record

Established an 18-Year Track Record of over 26% net IRR from 31 fully realized investments using only 39% leverage.
Market Opportunity

Large opportunity in the Southwest US for value-added real estate and tech opportunities.
Cienda Opportunities

Established a unique pipeline of opportunities under contract or currently being developed.
Execution

We align our interest with our longstanding operating partners and trusted relationships to ensure outsized risk-adjusted returns.
Investment Terms

Raising two funds to capture unique investments on investor-focused terms.

We Care About Investments

Cienda Partners has created a portfolio of investments in hotels, workforce housing, urban developments, mortgage pools, technology centers, and recreational communities. Over the last 23 years, we have created over $2 billion of investments. Here are some highlights.

**Oak Farms**

**Property Type:** Urban Tract
**Location:** Dallas, TX
**Acquisition:** May 2014 – Oct 2014

**Workforce Housing Portfolio**

**Property Type:** Multi-Family Housing
**Location:** Dallas, TX
**Acquisition:** 2020

**Las Campanas**

**Property Type:** Country Club/Residential
**Location:** Santa Fe, NM
**Acquisition:** March 2012

See Our Investments

We Care About Impact

We create sustainable social impact by founding new entrepreneurial social impact organizations through our leadership and financial support or by helping scale existing non-profit organizations through our board service and support.