Most Innovative Companies

Acorns

Founded in 2012, Acorns helps people build up their savings by rounding up purchases to the next dollar and squirreling away the difference. Lead by CEO Noah Kerner, the company has expanded into new product categories including a spending account, an investment account, and a rewards program. As of 2018, it had 4 million customers and $1.2 billion in assets under management.

Lists

2019: Top 50, Finance

Data

headquarters: Irvine, California

Acorns On The Web

Stories about Acorns

Check out these 5 brilliant apps for better budgeting

Lower your bills, earmark your cash, save automatically, and more with these wallet-fattening apps and services.

Check out these 5 brilliant apps for better budgeting

Fast Company Magazine

This simple investment app has millions of millennials saving every day

Rule number one for an investment app: Don’t make people do the math.

This simple investment app has millions of millennials saving every day

Fast Company Magazine

Meet the genius design firm behind the coffee mug that never gets cold

They’ve also updated the toaster oven, the credit card, and the Polaroid camera.

Meet the genius design firm behind the coffee mug that never gets cold

Pour one out for the barefoot runner traversing a sea of acorns

It brings a new spin to the term “first world problems.”

Pour one out for the barefoot runner traversing a sea of acorns

This debit card looks–and acts–like nothing else in your wallet

Acorns’ first debit card is made of a rare heavy metal–a reminder that you should treat your money with care.

This debit card looks–and acts–like nothing else in your wallet

Impact

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News

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Co.Design

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Work Life

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