Mayor Jim Kenney has been going to tech office openings and industry events since he took office in January 2016. He’s asked questions to startup founders, he’s strapped techno gizmos to his head and given his blessing at pitch competitions.

Ask Kenney how he plans to get past the literal stage of “showing up” for the tech community and the first thing he’ll tell you is to keep your eyes on StartUp PHL’s second fund, a $3.5-million push to back local startups.

“StartUp PHL is a very effective program,” Kenney told this reporter and a jam-packed room at the Science History Institute on Thursday, during Introduced by Technical.ly, the headlining event of Philly Tech Week 2018 presented by Comcast. “StartUp PHL 2 is beginning, and then it’s just about keeping on it: keep expanding our IT department and keep getting people that are extremely competent and can interact with the community at large.”

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