2026 funding rounds and infrastructure bets across AI, robotics and biotech
Series A to Series C rounds, major data‑center commitments and biotech IPOs mark a busy investment period in artificial intelligence, robotics and genetics.
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Artificial Intelligence
Paper, a San Francisco design platform that renders directly to HTML and CSS, closed a $34 million Series A round co‑led by Accel and ICONIQ, bringing total capital to $38.5 million after a $4.2 million seed in February 2025. New backers include Designer Fund, WorkOS CEO Michael Grinich, Lovable CEO Anton Osika and engineers from Anthropic and OpenAI, while existing investors Basecase, David Hoang and Vercel CEO Guillermo Rauch also participated. The company says ARR jumped 25‑fold in a month following its Paper Desktop launch and will allocate the new money to its editor, agent infrastructure and team expansion. [1]
Microsoft announced plans to spend roughly $80 billion on data‑center expansion in fiscal year 2025, with the majority of the spend earmarked for the United States, according to Vice‑Chair Brad Smith. The investment is aimed at bolstering AI and cloud‑based workloads, reflecting the growing compute demand for training sophisticated models. Microsoft’s first‑quarter capital expenditure rose 5.3 percent to $20 billion, and analysts estimate total FY 2025 capex, including leases, will reach $84.24 billion. [3]
Robotics
A Business Insider feature outlined the investment landscape for humanoid robotics, noting that the KOID ETF is the largest diversified vehicle for exposure to the sector. Morgan Stanley projects a $5 trillion market for humanoid robots by 2050, and KraneShares CIO Brendan Ahern cited real‑world deployments such as baggage‑handling robots in Japanese airports, driverless wheelchairs and robotic waiters in Hong Kong as evidence that the market is already materialising. [2]