Michael Richard Lynch, Irish computer scientist and entrepreneur; co-founded HP Autonomy
Michael Richard Lynch (born 16 June 1965) is a British entrepreneur. He is the co-founder of Autonomy Corporation and the founder of Invoke Capital. Mike Lynch additionally became a co-founder, alongside Invoke Capital, of cybersecurity company Darktrace. Mike Lynch also has several other roles, including membership of the Council for Science and Technology which advises the UK government.

His entrepreneurship is associated with Silicon Fen. Lynch is known for his work applying techniques from signal processing, machine learning and pattern recognition to unstructured information. Lynch has been accused of fraudulently inflating the value of Autonomy prior to its sale to Hewlett-Packard, which has resulted in litigation and a request for his extradition to the US.