# Dr Mike Lynch

> Dr Mike Lynch is a funding round investor at Invoke Capital backing Machine Learning. See 6 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated…

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: Invoke Capital
- Location: London, United Kingdom
- Total investments: 6
- Last investment: Jan 2019
- Lead investor: 33%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/drmikelynch/
- Website: https://www.invokecapital.com/

Dr Mike Lynch is a funding round investor at Invoke Capital in London focused on Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence. Mike Lynch is the founder of Invoke Capital, a venture capital firm which invests in and supports fundamental European technologies. Mike Lynch has long been regarded as a visionary figure in technology, described by the Financial Times as “the doyen of European software” and by the Sunday Times as “Britain’s Bill Gates”. He holds a PhD fromCambridge in Machine Intelligence, he was elected to the Prime Minister’s Scientific Advisory Panel and was a UK Business Ambassador. Mike has founded a number of companies, including Autonomy, the UK’s largest software company, with a market capitalisation of $11bn. He has invested in a number of start-ups, including Darktrace, Luminance, Neurence, Sophia Genetics and Featurespace, and has also advised venture capital and private equity groups such as Apax Partners and the Carlyle Group.He is a fellow of the Royal Society and of the Royal Academy of Engineering, and he is an Honorary Fellow of Christ’s College, Cambridge. He is on the advisory board of the Newton Institute, Tech City’s Investment Committee and is a member of the “Create the Change” board at the Francis Crick Institute. He was a non-executive director of Cambridge Enterprise and previous directorships include the BBC, the British Library and Nesta. He is a council member of the of the Foundation for Science and Technology.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Machine Learning | 3 | 50% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 3 | 50% |
| Software | 2 | 33% |
| Analytics | 2 | 33% |
| Information Technology | 2 | 33% |

15 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Funding Round | 3 | 50% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 1 | 17% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Featurespace | Featurespace™ is the world leader in Enterprise Financial Crime prevention for fraud and Anti-Money Laundering. Featurespace invented Adaptive Behavioral Analytics and Automated Deep Behavioral Networks, both of which are available through the ARIC™ platform, a real-time machine learning software that risk scores events in more than 180 countriesto prevent fraud and financial crime.ARIC™ Risk Hub uses advanced, explainable anomaly detection to enable financial institutions to automatically identify risk, catch new fraud attacks and identify suspicious activity in real-time. More than 30 major global financial institutions are using ARIC to protect their business and their customers. Publicly announced customers include HSBC, TSYS, Worldpay, NatWest, Contis, Danske Bank, ClearBank, Akbank and Permanent TSB. | $33M | Venture - Series Unknown | Jan 27, 2019 | https://www.featurespace.com/ |
| Featurespace | Featurespace™ is the world leader in Enterprise Financial Crime prevention for fraud and Anti-Money Laundering. Featurespace invented Adaptive Behavioral Analytics and Automated Deep Behavioral Networks, both of which are available through the ARIC™ platform, a real-time machine learning software that risk scores events in more than 180 countriesto prevent fraud and financial crime.ARIC™ Risk Hub uses advanced, explainable anomaly detection to enable financial institutions to automatically identify risk, catch new fraud attacks and identify suspicious activity in real-time. More than 30 major global financial institutions are using ARIC to protect their business and their customers. Publicly announced customers include HSBC, TSYS, Worldpay, NatWest, Contis, Danske Bank, ClearBank, Akbank and Permanent TSB. | $21M |  | Oct 04, 2017 | https://www.featurespace.com/ |
| Neurence | Neurence was founded by a group of world-class mathematicians and software engineers in Cambridge, England. Representing one of Europe's premier technical groups, the team at Neurence has built a highly intelligent, cloud-based central repository of information: Neurence acts like a "brain", with an ability to actually see, hear andunderstand the world around it. By using new mathematical and computational algorithms which power our cloud architecture, devices can be connected into and powered by Neurence, 'outsourcing' the processing of information from on-board the device into Neurence's intelligent cloud. By communicating all sensory data to Neurence, devices can access Neurence's knowledge to react to situations in the most effective and efficient way yet.This cloud-based machine learning means that each device does not need on-board processing power, allowing devices to be lighter, faster and less expensive to manufacture.Neurence is hosted in a shared cloud storage architecture, meaning devices and applications can consult the brain when they come across a new situation. As Neurence learns from the experience of all connected devices, Neurence will automatically instruct the device on what to do based on the optimal outcome of other devices' history. | $4M |  | Feb 23, 2015 | http://neurence.com/ |
| Featurespace | Featurespace™ is the world leader in Enterprise Financial Crime prevention for fraud and Anti-Money Laundering. Featurespace invented Adaptive Behavioral Analytics and Automated Deep Behavioral Networks, both of which are available through the ARIC™ platform, a real-time machine learning software that risk scores events in more than 180 countriesto prevent fraud and financial crime.ARIC™ Risk Hub uses advanced, explainable anomaly detection to enable financial institutions to automatically identify risk, catch new fraud attacks and identify suspicious activity in real-time. More than 30 major global financial institutions are using ARIC to protect their business and their customers. Publicly announced customers include HSBC, TSYS, Worldpay, NatWest, Contis, Danske Bank, ClearBank, Akbank and Permanent TSB. | $3.9M |  | Jun 10, 2014 | https://www.featurespace.com/ |
| Darktrace | Darktrace's self-learning AI is modeled on the human immune system and used by over 3,500 organizations to protect against threats to the cloud, email, IoT, networks, and industrial systems. This includes insider threat, industrial espionage, IoT compromises, zero-day malware, data loss, supply chain risk, and long-term infrastructurevulnerabilities.Darktrace has over 1,200 employees, 44 offices and headquarters in San Francisco and Cambridge, UK. Every 3 seconds, Darktrace AI fights back against a cyber-threat, preventing it from causing damage. |  |  | Sep 16, 2013 | https://www.darktrace.com |
| Featurespace | Featurespace™ is the world leader in Enterprise Financial Crime prevention for fraud and Anti-Money Laundering. Featurespace invented Adaptive Behavioral Analytics and Automated Deep Behavioral Networks, both of which are available through the ARIC™ platform, a real-time machine learning software that risk scores events in more than 180 countriesto prevent fraud and financial crime.ARIC™ Risk Hub uses advanced, explainable anomaly detection to enable financial institutions to automatically identify risk, catch new fraud attacks and identify suspicious activity in real-time. More than 30 major global financial institutions are using ARIC to protect their business and their customers. Publicly announced customers include HSBC, TSYS, Worldpay, NatWest, Contis, Danske Bank, ClearBank, Akbank and Permanent TSB. | $2M |  | Jun 12, 2012 | https://www.featurespace.com/ |

6 of 6 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Nesta Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nesta-investments) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Cambridge Angels group](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cambridge-angels-group) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Highland Europe](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/highland-capital-partners-europe) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Imperial Innovations](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/imperial-innovations) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [TTV Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ttv-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Insight Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/insight-partners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Invoke Capital

VC Fund · Cambridge, United Kingdom

Invoke Capital Partners was founded by Dr Mike Lynch, members of the senior management team from Autonomy, and a group of technology experts, with access to $1bn in capital. Invoke is focused on maximizing the potential of European fundamental technology by using its unique expertise and repositioning experience to rapidly scale them acrossmultiple markets. It is the only investment team in Europe with a dedicated, in-house R&D division, based in Cambridge, UK. The Invoke team has grown multiple technology businesses with particular expertise and experience in science and technology allowing them to identify and develop core technologies in areas including genomics, security, pattern recognition, signal processing and big data.

5 contacts available at Invoke Capital.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Dr Mike Lynch | Founder, Technology Entrepreneur | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/michael-lynch |
| Andrew Kanter | Partner | — |
| Charlotte Golunski | Partner | — |
| Pete Menell | Partner | — |
| Phil Pearson | Partner | — |

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## FAQ

### What does Dr Mike Lynch invest in?

Dr Mike Lynch invests primarily in Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence and Software startups, most often at Funding Round and Venture - Series Unknown stage. Most of the 6 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United Kingdom. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

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### When did Dr Mike Lynch last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Dr Mike Lynch closed in Jan 2019. Shizune tracks 6 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

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