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Swayze is a mobile marketplace that turns everyday customers into nano-influencers. Users get perks at top local venues for posting Instagram Stories, while businesses receive authentic UGC, new foot traffic, and measurable revenue uplift.

The company has raised $170,000 previously from Interplay and angel investors after proving strong traction in Poland, where the company started. In New York, Swayze has already onboarded 200+ partners and generated thousands of paid customer visits, bringing over $250,000 to its partner businesses.

Now raising a community round on Wefunder, Swayze is scaling a dual-sided monetization model: B2B subscriptions and performance fees from venues, along with a premium “Swayze+” tier for users. The goal is to become the go-to growth channel for brick-and-mortar brands in the creator economy.

MongoDB’s $MDB ( ▲ 22.23% ) financial earnings report on Monday was excellent, sending the stock up 21.75% in after-hours trading.

Financials: MongoDB reported earnings of $1.32 per share in the past quarter and revenue of $628.3 million. Both were better than expected.

Details: With revenue up 19% in the past quarter, the company raised its outlook for the current quarter. MongoDB expects revenue between $665 million and $670 million in the current quarter. It also expects earnings per share between $1.44 and $1.48.

Powering the Story: Customer growth was a big part of MongoDB’s recent success. The company added 2,600 customers in the past quarter, bringing its total customer base to over 62,500. There was growth with both existing and new customers.

Early Bird’s Nest Egg Gains: MongoDB is adding customers rapidly right now because the macro and technology environment strongly favors cloud-native, AI-ready data platforms that are easy for developers to adopt and cheap to start, but scalable to large enterprise workloads.

Final Thoughts: While MongoDB’s stock was up 34% this year, the stock had been down nearly 11% in the last 30 days.

Notable Earnings Today: Marvell Technology (Nasdaq: MRVL), GitLab (Nasdaq: GTLB), CrowdStrike (Nasdaq: CRWD), Signet Jewelers (NYSE: SIG), Pure Storage (NYSE: PSTG), American Eagle (NYSE: AEO), Box (NYSE: BOX), Okta (Nasdaq: OKTA), Asana (NYSE: ASAN), United Natural Foods (NYSE: UNFI), Leslie’s (Nasdaq: LESL), Bank of Nova Scotia (TSE: BNS).

Notable IPOs Today: Bitcoin Infrastructure Acquisition Corp Ltd. Unit (Nasdaq: BIXIU).

Notable Equity Crowdfunding Campaigns Ending Today: Zemi Coffee Cart (Honeycomb), Bone + Bear Farms (Honeycomb), Xinca Foods (Honeycomb). 

Notable Economic Events Today: JOLTS Job Openings (10:00 a.m. ET), API Weekly Crude Oil Stock (4:30 p.m. ET).

The price of the cryptocurrency Dogecoin $DOGE.X ( ▲ 11.62% ) fell about 3% on Monday to reach 14 cents, its lowest price in 2025.

Price: Dogecoin has fallen about 10% this past week. It is down over 26% in the last 30 days.

Bigger Picture: Dogecoin’s decline on Monday coincided with the broader risk-off drop in the crypto market. Investors are selling risky assets such as crypto because of macro uncertainties.

Final Thoughts: Volatility shouldn’t come as a surprise to investors of Dogecoin. It’s a risky asset. Some see it as a meme coin.

Instacart $CART ( ▼ 2.95% ) fell 4.14% in after-hours trading on Monday after investors grew concerned about a potential new competitor.

Details: The Information reported on Monday that Amazon $AMZN ( ▲ 0.23% ) is testing a new ultrafast delivery service.

Final Thoughts: Instacart had been up about 14% in the past 30 days.

Another Solana Use Case: Kalshi makes move to court crypto traders with tokenized betting contracts (CNBC)

Harsh: Instagram chief Adam Mosseri orders staff back to the office five days a week in 2026 (Business Insider)

The Future: Google CEO Sundar Pichai says we’re just a decade away from a new normal of extraterrestrial data centers (Fortune)

Bad Day for an Outage: Shopify outage disrupts some merchants on Cyber Monday (CBS News)

A Heavy Price: Crypto’s Retail Traders Hit Hard as Strategy ETFs Plunge 80% (Wall Street Journal)

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