# The Sanctuary Group

Startup profile on Capital Atlas: https://capitalatlas.ai/startups/the-sanctuary-group

- Industry: Travel & Leisure
- Headquarters: Paris, France
- Website: www.thesanctuary-group.com/
- Total disclosed funding: $2.7M
- Latest round: Series A (Sep 4, 2025)
- Investors on record: 4

## About

Based in Paris, France, and founded in 2013, The Sanctuary Group operates as a fitness and wellness company that offers fitness studios and offers workouts. The company was founded by its CEO Renaud Nataf and Co-founder Alexandre Wilhelm.  As of 2022, the company has 8 sports and wellness studios and 320500 visitors have visited the studio. The firm has an employee count of 122 by the year 2022. In September 2026, The Sanctuary Group raised EUR 2.32 million in series A funding round led by Blast.Club, with participation from Seventure Partners, M Capital, and Smalt Capital.

The firm offers wellness and fitness studios that helps its clients with their well-being and fitness. The brands offered by the group are Aqua by, Poses and Lecrercle. Aqua offers cycling sessions, Posses provides 50-minute immersive workouts and Lecercle provides boxing and boot camp workouts.

The company will use the September 2025 funding to accelerate the expansion of its network of immersive fitness and wellness studios.

## Funding rounds

- Series A, Sep 4, 2025, $2.7M — Seventure Partners, Smalt Capital, M Capital, Blast.Club

## Investors

- Seventure Partners (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/seventure-partners) — Series A
- Smalt Capital (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/smalt-capital) — Series A
- M Capital (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/m-capital) — Series A
- Blast.Club (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/blast-club) — Series A
