Invoke Capital

Invoke Capital is a UK-based venture capital firm specializing in founding, investing in, and advising fast-growing fundamental technology companies across Europe. Established by technologist and entrepreneur Mike Lynch OBE FREng FRS, the firm focuses on realizing the commercial potential of Europe's scientific and deep technology base. Invoke Capital has been instrumental in founding and developing prominent technologies, including Darktrace, a leading cyber AI company; Luminance, an award-winning machine learning platform for the legal industry; and Featurespace, an AI fraud-detection engine. The firm exited data-driven medicine experts, Sophia Genetics, in 2020.

Unlike traditional venture capital funds, Invoke Capital makes a small number of selective investments and actively collaborates with its portfolio companies on a day-to-day basis. This approach allows the firm to back businesses from the lab through start-up growth to M&A and ultimately to becoming world-class leaders. Invoke Capital's investment criteria focus on fundamental technologies that bring something entirely new to the marketplace. The firm is comfortable backing winners, whether it's the first million or hundreds of millions, and provides unrivaled technological, operational, and commercial expertise gained through decades of building world-leading British technology companies such as Autonomy, Blinkx, and Darktrace.

Invoke Capital offers ongoing, open-door support on all aspects of business strategy and execution, with the core currency being time. The firm's unique perspectives and thought-provoking content are shared through Invoke Insights, featuring celebrated technologist Mike Lynch OBE FREng FRS and world-leading entrepreneurs, public policy-makers, technologists, and industry experts from both the public and private sectors. This platform provides valuable insights into the evolving landscape of European technology and innovation.