Sebastien Long

Hi, I'm Seb! I'm an Anglo-French founder who emigrated to Houston from London in 2018. I grew up immersed in my parents’ hospitality business and interacted with 30,000 travelers before earning my international management degree at the University of Bath (UK). I spent the first decade of my career traveling the world digitizing banks and their operating models across five continents. Looking for a new challenge, I started my Executive MBA at the University of Cambridge and helped two Silicon Valley unicorns come to Europe. I launched the UK market for Sonder and advised Impossible Foods on European market entry. My company Lodgeur powers multifamily hospitality. We're a B2B2C prop-tech company that helps apartment building owners boost their cash flow and property value. We do this by converting empty apartments and managing them to attract a new type of renter that’s looking for the convenience of furnished accommodation on flexible terms. 
 Although hospitality is in my DNA, I’m a banker by training. My 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. One of my hobbies is other people's startups: I mentor early-stage founders with MassChallenge, Founder Institute, and Capital Factory. Feel free to connect with me on LinkedIn or reach out via email (seb@lodgeur.com).