AT THE HEART OF EUROPEAN TECHNOLOGY
Founded by celebrated technologist and entrepreneur, Mike Lynch OBE FREng FRS, Invoke Capital founds, invests in and advises fast-growing fundamental technology companies in Europe. With deep expertise in identifying and commercialising artificial intelligence research and a close relationship with the University of Cambridge, Invoke exists to realise the commercial possibilities of Britain’s extraordinary science and deep technology base.
Since 2012, Invoke has been instrumental in founding, creating and developing prominent technologies, and then finding the right teams to scale them into global businesses. Invoke’s companies include Darktrace, a world-leading cyber AI company that employs more than 1,500 people globally, Luminance, an award-winning machine learning platform for the legal industry, and AI fraud-detection engine, Featurespace. Invoke exited data-driven medicine experts, Sophia Genetics, in 2020.
Investing in fast-growth, from founding to floating and beyond
Invoke Capital is not a traditional Venture Capital fund. We make a small number of selective investments and actively work with our portfolio on a day-to-day basis. Unrestrained by conventional fund dynamics, we see opportunity in the technology itself and have the freedom and expertise to back businesses from the lab, through start-up growth to M&A, and ultimately to being a world class leader. Our only investment criteria is that the fundamental technology brings something completely new to the marketplace.
Whether it’s the first million or hundreds of millions, Invoke is comfortable to back winners.
We provide unrivalled technological, operational and commercial expertise gained through decades of building world-leading British technology companies such as Autonomy, Blinkx and Darktrace.
Offering ongoing, open-door support on all aspects of business strategy and execution, the core currency we deploy is time.
Advising, so that every investment succeeds
Invoke Insights offers unique perspectives and thought-provoking content from celebrated technologist Mike Lynch OBE FREng FRS and world-leading entrepreneurs, public policy-makers, technologists and industry experts from the public and private sectors.
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