Mike Lynch issues immigration plea What is happening is that very talented people are being drawn in from around the world. These people start their businesses, they then go on to employ large numbers of Californians, and create value and pay taxes. Mr Lynch, who has started his own £650m fund, Invoke Capital Partners, to support growing technology companies, said Britain needed to do more to promote itself abroad as a great place to work. He added: "We have a country here that everyone else, apart from maybe the US, is amazingly envious of. We have this amazing education system and it's a place people want to come to. Let's capitalise on that and welcome people in. Mr Lynch disclosed that Invoke Capital Partners aimed to invest in a number of small businesses and then join them together with larger businesses, which have access to distribution networks. He also said that while British universities such as Imperial College or Cambridge were among the best in the world "we have been very bad at taking the output of those universities and converting it into economically meaningful businesses."