Gov. Tom Wolf announced Thursday that Pennsylvania’s Department of Community and Economic Development (DCED) had made $4 million in new funding available to help tech-based companies in Ben Franklin Technology Partners’ (BFTP) portfolio that have been impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.

The funding will be distributed equally between the state’s four BFTP entities, which operate in Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, State College and Bethlehem.

“Our tech companies have been stepping up to provide us with innovative ways to produce personal protective equipment and other supplies, and we must make sure they remain in a position to provide those critical services and ideas in our response to this pandemic,” said DCED Secretary Dennis Davin in a statement.

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