Savings and investing app Acorns raises a $300M Series F at a nearly $2B valuation led by TPG, six weeks after shelving its SPAC plans
In today's dish, a fintech startup taps into the private markets … Hugh Son / CNBC : Investing app Acorns taps ‘choppy’ private markets at $1.9 billion valuation after scrapping SPAC Tweets: Mary Ann ...
Investing app Acorns cancels its proposed $2.2B SPAC merger announced in May 2021, and says it will instead pivot to a private capital raise
Acorns is building Customizable Portfolios, to let users invest in individual stocks instead of only in its ETFs, and says it could eventually support crypto
going beyond just Acorns' own funds. This better pits them against the likes of Robinhood. https://www.bloomberg.com/...
Ant Money, which operates micro-income app ATM, gamer savings app Blast, and financial literacy app Learn & Earn, raises a $20M Series A
Serial fintech entrepreneur Walter Cruttenden founded Acorns with his son, Jeff, in 2012 with the goal of helping low- and middle-income households to invest and save responsibly.
Savings and investing app Acorns is merging with a SPAC to go public in a deal that values Acorns at roughly $2.2B, more than double its last private valuation
- Acorns will merge with with Pioneer Merger Corp., a publicly traded special purpose acquisition company.
Investing and savings startup Acorns now valued at $860M after raising $105M Series E from Comcast Ventures, NBCUniversal, Bain Capital Ventures, and others
Kate Rooney / CNBC :
Acorns says it has 3.5M users investing roughly $50 to $60 per month and has seen 100,000 signups for its $2/month retirement product a month after its launch
Jonathan Shieber / TechCrunch :
PayPal announces product integrations with Acorns' personal finance and investment service, after leading its Series D round last year
Paul Sawers / VentureBeat :