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

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

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

Your e-commerce addiction means delivery emissions could increase 30% by 2030

This app gives deaf users an on-demand ASL interpreter

PepsiCo’s U.S. operations will be powered by 100% renewable electricity this year

Creativity

Bloomberg haunted the Dem debate with fake irony on Twitter. Here’s how the other absent candidates fared.

Daniel Craig is definitely not James Bond in Heineken’s new 007 commercial

It is time to stop caring about Trump’s typos

Co.Design

Board-game design is thriving

Instagrammers rejoice: A face filter for your clothes is here

Low-CO2 food labeling will be the next ‘low fat’ craze

Work Life

3 reasons why people don’t take your advice

7 things you must do if you’re going to successfuly bootstrap

Employee salaries at a fast-growing startup: What are the going rates?