Origami Logic gathers a ton of marketing data for performance measurement. But it doesn’t work at the individual customer level, so it’s not a customer data platform. With hair-thin light gray type on a white background, its Web site may set a world record for illegibility. Just saying.

One of the fastest-growing applications for artificial intelligence is extracting business information from the Web. Crayon, founded in 2014, lets clients specify companies to follow and then sends a real-time feed of over 100 types of information including price and message changes, new products, and online reviews. Crayon says it has 42,000 users for its free and paid products. It just raised $3.35 million, bringing total funding to $5.1 million.

It’s deal-making time for generative AI model builders and publishers who can provide them with quality data.  Germany publishing giant Axel Springer is trading access to its data for Microsoft adtech, AI, and Azure hosting solutions.  Meanwhile, The Financial Times has struck a deal with OpenAI to license its content with attribution of summaries and quotes.