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Equity investment across trends · Hindsight | Envisioning

Hindsight
McKinsey & Company
Technology Trends Outlook
2026
Claim

Equity investment across trends

Published 2026-09-15

Publishers Forecast vs actual Side by side

Five of the trends—agentic software development, AI infrastructure and model architectures, AI for scientific discovery and engineering, the future of space technologies, and the future of robotics—are on track to receive more than double the investment in 2026 compared with 2025

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The same forecast in other editions

2026Equity investment across trends
2026Equity investment across trends

All captured fields

subject: Equity investment in five frontier trends
target year: 2026
metric: equity investment 2026 vs 2025
value: >2
unit: times
kind: forecast
confidence: high
note: Extrapolated by the publisher from first-half 2026 investment. Applies to each of the five trends named.

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Hindsight, claim mckinsey-tech-trends-2026-015, not graded as of 2026-10-03. Envisioning. https://www.envisioning.com/hindsight/claims/mckinsey-tech-trends-2026-015

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