On Finovate.com

• Microsoft Marketing Vet Jeremy Korst Joins Avalara as New CMO.

Around the web

• New York-based BizFi reaches $2 billion in originations.

• LTP: Trulioo CEO Stephen Ufford writes about the problem of gift card fraud.

• Boku extends partnership with Microsoft to support carrier billing to France.

• Exostar teams up with Taulia to bring supply chain finance to the aerospace and defense industry.

• Avoka, SocietyOne, and SuiteBox named finalists for Fintech Business Awards.

• HBR: Narrative Science CEO Stuart Frankel writes about talking chatbots.

• Quantopian recognized by Boston Globe as a “Company to Watch in 2017.”

• Let’s Talk Payments features Kontomatik’s successful 2016.

• Dashlane to support Intel Software Guard Extensions to help protect your passwords with hardware-enhanced security.

• OurCrowd marks 4 years, $320m raised, 100 startups, 9 exits.

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