Skip Besthoff
Angel Investor @ Castile Ventures
Boston, United States
Skip Besthoff is a Series B investor at Castile Ventures in Boston focused on Fitness and News. Skip Besthoff is the Managing Director at Providence Strategic Growth. Skip Besthoff attended Cornell Johnson Graduate School of Management.
- Total investments:
- 7
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 86%
Last updated:
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Industries Skip Besthoff invests in
Stages Skip Besthoff invests in
Countries Skip Besthoff invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Fitness 2 (29%)
- News 1 (14%)
- Video 1 (14%)
- Advice 1 (14%)
- EdTech 1 (14%)
Stage
- Series B 1 (14%)
- Series C 1 (14%)
- Series D 1 (14%)
- Private Equity 1 (14%)
Country
- United States 2 (29%)
- Germany 1 (14%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Sport Alliance is a provider of software for gyms and fitness providers. It makes sports easily accessible by digitizing the fitness industry. As the market leader in Germany and Austria, they rely on state-of-the-art technologies and methods to create a cloud-based platform that can manage all relevant business processes from independent gyms tointernational chains. Building on this, they have created a unique ecosystem of innovative value-added services in the areas of fintech, e-commerce, and lead generation. The company's offices are located in Hamburg, Mainz, Vienna, and Kraków. | $100M / Private Equity / Nov 27, 2023 | ||
| Sport Alliance is a provider of software for gyms and fitness providers. It makes sports easily accessible by digitizing the fitness industry. As the market leader in Germany and Austria, they rely on state-of-the-art technologies and methods to create a cloud-based platform that can manage all relevant business processes from independent gyms tointernational chains. Building on this, they have created a unique ecosystem of innovative value-added services in the areas of fintech, e-commerce, and lead generation. The company's offices are located in Hamburg, Mainz, Vienna, and Kraków. | $70.1M / Private Equity / Aug 19, 2021 | ||
| Healthguru.com is the destination site for health video on the web with 99 million views per month (comScore Video Metrix, August). Our unique approach to health education was developed specifically for the video audience and is differentiated in three key ways:- Category Focus: Healthguru.com focuses on the health topics that matter most totoday's audience, including: diet and fitness, mental & emotional health, sexual health, pregnancy, baby health, drugs & alcohol, as well as information on more than 125 different health conditions.- Medium: The modern health consumer seeks out an immersive, rich media experience on the web, and video has proven to be a more engaging medium. Healthguru.com has the largest health video library online, and interactive applications to offer our audience the experience it expects.- Editorial Approach: World-class information providers know that creating truly engaging content is the way to ensure that information becomes learning. That's why Healthguru.com is dedicated to making our content as interesting and, when relevant, entertaining, as it is useful. All Healthguru.com content is created or selected by our editorial team and is rigorously reviewed for medical accuracy, objectivity and balance. While we do accept advertising on our site and may distribute content via third party sites, Healthguru.com does not endorse products, services or companies. | $6M / Series D / Jun 29, 2011 | ||
| Healthguru.com is the destination site for health video on the web with 99 million views per month (comScore Video Metrix, August). Our unique approach to health education was developed specifically for the video audience and is differentiated in three key ways:- Category Focus: Healthguru.com focuses on the health topics that matter most totoday's audience, including: diet and fitness, mental & emotional health, sexual health, pregnancy, baby health, drugs & alcohol, as well as information on more than 125 different health conditions.- Medium: The modern health consumer seeks out an immersive, rich media experience on the web, and video has proven to be a more engaging medium. Healthguru.com has the largest health video library online, and interactive applications to offer our audience the experience it expects.- Editorial Approach: World-class information providers know that creating truly engaging content is the way to ensure that information becomes learning. That's why Healthguru.com is dedicated to making our content as interesting and, when relevant, entertaining, as it is useful. All Healthguru.com content is created or selected by our editorial team and is rigorously reviewed for medical accuracy, objectivity and balance. While we do accept advertising on our site and may distribute content via third party sites, Healthguru.com does not endorse products, services or companies. | $3.2M / Series C / Oct 21, 2009 | ||
| ByAllAccounts, Inc. enables the automated gathering of financial account data from thousands financial institutions for import directly into Portfolio Management and Trust Accounting Systems. Their patent pending technology analyzes, augments, and delivers data for even the most sophisticated holistic wealth management practice and enablesefficient and timely account reconciliation, performance analysis and consolidated reporting. ByAllAccounts, Inc. serves more than 300 clients having a full range of managed and "held-away" accounts, including retirement, banking, brokerage, trust, hedge fund, limited partnerships, private equity, annuity, and more. | $5M / Series B | ||
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Co-Investors
About Castile Ventures
Castile Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm that provides financial banking and strategic guidance.
Castile Ventures Contacts
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Founder & Managing General Partner
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What does Skip Besthoff invest in?
Skip Besthoff invests primarily in Fitness, News and Video startups, most often at Series B and Series C stage. Most of the 7 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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