Babylon

Who owns Babylon?

Babylon is currently owned by Eurazeo through EZORE (2024 vintage), since 2026.

Hand-verified · updated 2026-05-27

About Babylon

Babylon is a Paris-based hospitality company that operates an integrated aparthotel platform for Paris and the Greater Paris region, pairing the space and comfort of serviced apartments with hotel-grade services. It positions itself in a structurally growing but heavily constrained and regulated segment of the Parisian lodging market, targeting extended-stay and flexible guests underserved by traditional hotels. The model is asset-backed, with Babylon both operating and, in part, owning the real estate behind its properties. According to figures disclosed at the time of its institutional financing, the platform had roughly 5,400 square meters and about 400 beds in operation or development, alongside a pipeline of nearly 5,000 additional square meters under exclusivity.

Ownership journey

Babylon was founded in early 2025 in Paris by Martin Stalla-Bourdillon, its chief executive, together with Thomas Zaepffel and Geoffroy Mestrallet, both former co-founders of the real estate manager Kerria AM. On 26 May 2026 Eurazeo acquired a majority stake in the company through its EZORE real estate fund, which is dedicated to European businesses that both operate and own their real estate assets. The three founders remained shareholders alongside Eurazeo. Eurazeo is an active investor in the company and no exit or secondary transaction has been recorded.

Under PE ownership

The 2026 investment was structured to fund an aggressive expansion of the platform, with a stated objective of tripling the size of the portfolio by 2030. Eurazeo's Real Estate team committed to support Babylon in acquiring new assets, including underperforming hotels and vacant office buildings suitable for repositioning, in a range of roughly 500 to 4,000 square meters each. The strategy also envisages growth through management contracts for targeted third-party-owned assets, extending reach without full ownership. Because the transaction closed in mid-2026, its operating effects on beds, sites and revenue were still in their early stages at the time of writing.