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Regarding interest rates, they are already up. I got a house 4 months ago at 2.85%, and now they are 4.2%. I can't speak to whether investment in tech will drop. Lately, there is so much spare money floating around investors can't find homes for it. Inflation suggests to me _more_ desperation to have the money invested, not less. And the net cause seems to be a steady stream of wealth consolidation allows a smaller subset of the economy to hold more and more wealth.

All investment opportunities, to a first approximation, are competing with one another for capital. When interest rates drop, newly issued bonds become worse investments - but you've got to invest in something, so money flows into everything else. When interest rates go up, the opposite happens.

I can’t answer about the relation to tech investment, but the federal reserve has a meeting every month and they have been explicitly saying for the last few meetings that they intend to raise interest rates several times this year.