Primary Job Title Founder & CEO Primary Organization Lodgeur
Location Houston, Texas, United States Regions Greater Houston Area, Southern US Gender Male Also Known As Seb
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Sébastien Long is an Anglo-French founder who emigrated to Houston from London in 2018. He grew up immersed in his parents’ hospitality business and interacted with 30,000 travelers before earning an international management degree at the University of Bath (UK).
He spent the first decade of my career traveling the world digitizing banks and
their operating models across five continents. Looking for a new challenge, he completed an Executive MBA at the University of Cambridge and helped two Silicon Valley unicorns come to Europe. He launched the UK market for Sonder and advised Impossible Foods on European market entry.
Although hospitality is in his DNA, he’s a banker by training. His experience comes from modernizing banks like HSBC: developing more customer-centric operations, improving risk management, and fighting financial crime. This background is surprisingly useful in Lodgeur's mission to provide an operating system that combines hospitality operations and multifamily apartment assets.
Lodgeur turns bare apartments into on-demand lodging. This helps building owners boost their cash flow and property value by attracting a new type of renter that’s looking for the convenience of furnished accommodation on flexible terms.
One of his hobbies is other people's startups: Sébastien mentors early-stage founders with MassChallenge, Founder Institute, and Capital Factory.
