We are a people-first company
Home buying was broken. We set out to fix it. Our mission is to help community developers and homebuilders create exceptional customer experiences by harnessing data, technology, and human capital.
Transforming how new homes are built and bought in America.
Meet the team behind it all.
We’re a team of cross-industry experts in strategy, real estate, retail, hospitality, and technology. Our secret sauce isn’t our tech – it’s the passion and innovation of a diverse team working together to change an industry.
John Cecilian Jr.
Philip Worland
Jennifer Cecilian
Chris Rhodes
Kimberly Luksic
Wendy Kerins
Ned Moore
Stephanie Mccarty
Katie Pennington
Russ Kliman
Amy Gwozdecke
Abigail Plasha
Allison Charette
Stephanie Otto
Diana Calheiros
Michael Rosenberg
Todd Schoenfeld
Lori DeCarolis
Matt Segal
Jessica Kerrigan
Holly Maurizio
Khari Walker
Jessica Foster
Kevin Dougherty
Ryan Driskill
Backed by a generation of deep expertise in real estate and technology.
Resolve Growth Partners
Resolve Growth Partners is a growth equity firm focused on investing in B2B software companies and enabling passionate, committed entrepreneurs to accelerate growth. Resolve provides expertise and repeatable best practices across talent, go-to-market, and operations. In 2023, after rigorous due diligence, Resolve led Cecilian Partners’ first institutional equity round, raising over $11M in growth funding.
Perot Jain
Perot Jain is a Dallas-based venture capital firm founded in 2014 by longtime business partners Ross Perot Jr. and Anurag Jain. Since its inception, Perot Jain has made over 100 investments across five countries, primarily focusing on the US innovation ecosystem. The firm has a track record of helping early-stage companies drive industry-disrupting innovation by providing patient capital, a strategic network, and tech-enabled expertise.
Ben Franklin Technology Partners
BFTP helps early-stage, technology-based firms with funding, business and technical expertise, and access to a network of resources. By making direct investments in promising tech-oriented companies throughout Pennsylvania, BFTP funds critical commercialization activities and growth. A BFTP investment is often a key endorsement for other funding sources, enabling companies to attract follow-on investment and move into full-fledged commercialization.
RCLCO Real Estate Advisors
RCLCO advisings on $5B of real estate annually and is a major strategic player across all classes and types of real estate. CEO Gadi Kaufmann states, “Proptech is changing the industry, and, as always, we want to play a strategic role in that change. We believe community developers and home builders will both gain efficiencies and improve the overall consumer experience by implementing Cecilian Partners’ software products.”
Land Advisors Organization
A team of respected, connected, and talented land professionals, Land Advisors provides brokerage and advisory services to those needing a data-driven roadmap for acquiring, selling, financing, or developing land and land-related assets. Given their longtime relationships with professionals at every point in the real estate cycle, state-of-the-art technology, and bankable expertise, it’s no surprise LAO is the best known name in land.
LJA Engineering
LJA, an Engineering News-Record Top 500 National Firm, offers full-service engineering and consulting services to public and private sector clients. With their comprehensive services, industry-leading scope of knowledge, and regional influence, LJA continually enhances our personal and professional communities. Recent awards include Best Places to Work, Fast 100, Top Design Firm, and ENR Texas & Louisiana’s Design Firm of the Year.
We achieve great results with some of the best companies in real estate.
I have a lot of faith in Cecilian Partners, what they are doing and how they are not just talking about changing the sale experience in homebuilding, but actually doing it.”
Hillwood Communities is excited to continue working with Cecilian to deliver exceptional online buyer experiences and to improve the overall performance of our business.”
The XO will be transformational in the way developers and builders centralize data for decision-making, streamline the sales process, and add value on the customer side in their due diligence.”
The XO provides us the platform to enhance the customer experience, from finding a home to improving transparency. It has been a game-changer.”
The best feature of the XO is the ability for developers, staff, and builders to see the same information and status of lots and requests. Our submittal review time has been cut in half with the builder uploading the information and the XO sending approval/denial via email directly from the platform.”
The BrightDoor competitive edge is its ability to change the buyer’s overall sales experience. It’s polished. It’s high tech. There’s an impressive drama and emotion about it.”
BrightDoor Touch is one of the primary keys to our company’s success. Without them, what we’re doing would be impossible.”
Brightdoor CRM is the most robust solution available for the real estate industry. Brightdoor has produced a return on our investment by allowing us to be more efficient at our jobs.”
