The funds will be primarily devoted to R&D, as we develop more sophisticated technology, transforming into the Arduino platform with hardware, firmware, cloud services and content.
A key aim is to reduce friction, both for generation Z by providing them with a familiar environment as they enter the embedded and AIoT world, and for engineers in general by reducing the amount of redundancy. Arduino provides engineers with the tools to avoid the need to rewrite or repeat tasks and coding, thus leaving them free to focus upon the end application. These will be especially noticeable through the  Arduino Cloud that will be easier and faster than ever before.