However, this year’s budget was lacking in new spending for the tech and innovation sector.

BC Tech Association, the non-profit dedicated to growing the province’s tech ecosystem, called out the budget for its lack of new funding for the sector.

While this may be the case, large tech companies, including Canadian sweetheart Shopify, have opened large offices in the city.

While there was no additional funding for tech and innovation in the provincial government’s 2020 budget, it did not cut funding either.

Despite calling out the lack of new funding, BC Tech called the CleanBC capital “a significant and meaningful” investment in the BC innovative economy. | To read full story, visit https://startuparound.com/read/1582155008.0295389/British-Columbia’s-2020-budget-lacks-new-spending-for-tech-and-innovation?ref=audio_experience