# Scott Lake

> Scott Lake is a seed investor at Hello Ventures (Vancouver) backing Health Care and FinTech. See 8 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Hello Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hello-ventures)
- Location: Vancouver, Canada
- Total investments: 8
- Last investment: Mar 2022
- Lead investor: 13%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/scottlake
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/scottica
- Website: http://www.swixhq.com

Scott Lake is a startup entrepreneur, tech investor, and philanthropist. He is best known as the cofounder of Shopify (NYSE: SHOP), then later as founder of Source Metrics.Currently, Scott is a general partner at Hello Ventures, where he leverages all the learning from his entrepreneurial journeys to invest in and advise early-stage techcompanies.Scott also plays an active role with his wife Jess as philanthropic funders of diverse social and public health causes.In his past lives, he has been a bike messenger, a university lecturer, a driver at NATO, and a political science PhD.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $500k–$1.3M |
| Pre-Seed | $190k–$878k |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Health Care | 2 | 25% |
| FinTech | 1 | 13% |
| Finance | 1 | 13% |
| Medical | 1 | 13% |
| Big Data | 1 | 13% |

25 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 4 | 50% |
| Pre-Seed | 2 | 25% |
| Series A | 1 | 13% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Cognito Health | Cognito Health is a unique model involves a combination of cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) and medication. Cognito Health offers digital assessments, nurse practitioner visits, counselling, coaching, self directed courses, medication delivery, and daily affirmations all under one pricing plan. | $878.4K | Pre-Seed | Mar 28, 2022 |  |
| Qohash | Qohash provides modern data solutions with a focus on data discovery, classification, and integrity assurance. Its core solution, the Qostodian data security platform, monitors data across the enterprise, and implements an integrity assurance regime to protect your most precious data and business process. | $6.3M | Series A | Jan 14, 2021 |  |
| Social Nature | With Social Nature, people can try natural products for FREE in exchange for writing a product review on social media, #trynatural. | $1.3M | Seed | Dec 13, 2019 |  |
| Certn | Certn is the new standard in risk management tools for employers, landlords and property management firms. Certn is a fast, simple, comprehensive solution for applicant screening backed by great customer service. Services include criminal record checks, drivers abstracts, identity verification, employment & education verification, andreference checks. Certn also offers its proprietary Softcheck which scans over 100,000 databases for negative news, watchlists, SEC violations, provincial security violations, across the globe and returns results in minutes. If you want more from your background screening product, you want Certn. | $699K | Seed | May 02, 2018 |  |
| Qohash | Qohash provides modern data solutions with a focus on data discovery, classification, and integrity assurance. Its core solution, the Qostodian data security platform, monitors data across the enterprise, and implements an integrity assurance regime to protect your most precious data and business process. | $190K | Pre-Seed | May 01, 2018 |  |
| KOHO Financial | KOHO Financial provides an application based banking platform intended to simplify financial products available to everyone. Its platform helps users to complete their day to day banking operations while offering tools such as goals, cash flow projections, group spending, spending insights, and categorizations, enabling users to manage theirexpenses and banking operations on the go. |  | Seed | Jul 22, 2016 |  |
| Social Nature | With Social Nature, people can try natural products for FREE in exchange for writing a product review on social media, #trynatural. | $1M | Seed | Jun 02, 2016 |  |
| Guides.co | Guides.co (formerly Accel.io) aims to be the world's largest resource for free and premium interactive guides.It's easy to find answers online on how to tie a tie or stuff a turkey, but where do people go to learn how to start a business, build a marketing plan, or discover a whole health fitness plan?Guides.co aims to be theultimate destination for online guides.Guides.co is a free, next generation content publishing & distribution platform for experts, businesses, and content marketersGuides.co Smart Guides are incredibly engaging interactive blueprints that contain text, video, file templates, pro tips, and interactive widgets that can be embedded on any website or blog.With amazing customer details, insight and analytics, Guides.co is the best way for authors to connect with their audience. | $500K | Seed | Apr 24, 2014 |  |

8 of 8 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Conconi Growth Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/conconi-growth-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Panache Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/panache-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Active Impact Investments](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/active-impact-investments) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Capital Angel Network](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/capital-angel-network) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Desjardins Venture Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/desjardins-venture-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [FINTOP Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fintop-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Hello Ventures

VC Fund · Victoria, Canada

Hello Ventures operates as a venture capital firm.

2 contacts available at Hello Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Peter Becke | General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/peter-becke |
| Scott Lake | Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/scott-lake |

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## FAQ

### What does Scott Lake invest in?

Scott Lake invests primarily in Health Care, FinTech and Finance startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 8 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Canada. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Scott Lake's check size?

Scott Lake typically joins rounds of $500k–$1.3M at Seed and $190k–$878k at Pre-Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Scott Lake participates in.

### When did Scott Lake last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Scott Lake closed in Mar 2022. Shizune tracks 8 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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