Michael Richard Lynch (born 16 June 1965) is an entrepreneur with a scientific background.
He is the co-founder of Autonomy Corporation and the founder of Invoke Capital, and 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 and pattern recognition to unstructured information, and Autonomy is a leader in this area.
In October 2011, Autonomy was sold to Hewlett-Packard for $11bn.