

On launch, Acorns charged a $1.00 fee for its service, which offer was ended on September 21st of 2021. A credit or debit card is linked to the account, whereafter each purchase made with the card is rounded up to the next whole dollar, and the difference is added to the Acorns investment portfolio one also manually may make contributions to one's account. Upon registering with Acorns, a user selects from among several portfolios of varied asset allocation. These plans were canceled in January 2022, citing market conditions. In May 2021, Acorns planned go to public through a merger with a blank-check company Pioneer Merger Corp. PayPal, BlackRock, and NBCUniversal also have a stake in the company. As of August 2019, notable investors in Acorns included Jennifer Lopez, Alex Rodriguez, Bono, Ashton Kutcher and Kevin Durant. Since its founding, the company has raised approximately $100 million in venture capital funding. In 2018, behavioral economist Shlomo Benartzi was appointed chair of a behavioral economics committee at Acorns, working on an initiative termed the Money Lab to conduct field experiments focused on consumer spending. This was made possible following an acquisition of Portland, Oregon fintech retirement startup, Vault. Since its inception, the platform has expanded to include checking account services and retirement IRA products. The portfolio options a user can select from were designed in partnership with paid advisor Harry Markowitz, a Nobel laureate.
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It launched in 2014 with an app for iOS and Android devices. The company was launched in 2012 by father and son duo Walter Wemple Cruttenden III and Jeffrey James Cruttenden to promote incremental and passive investing. Micro-investing is a type of investment strategy that is designed to make investing regular, accessible and affordable, especially for those who may not have a lot of money to invest or who are new to investing. In 2022, their total assets under management exceeded $6.2 billion.

According to Fortune's Impact 20 list for the year 2020, Acorns had 8.2 million customers. Investment management, investment portfolios, stock portfolios, stock tradingĪcorns is an American financial technology and financial services company based in Irvine, California that specializes in micro-investing and robo advice.
