Acorns
Acorns is how everyday consumers save & invest for the long term. To date, customers have invested over $19 billion with Acorns, much of it in spare change. By putting the tools of wealth-making in everyone's hands, Acorns has become the largest subscription service in U.S. consumer finance, serving over 10 million everyday Americans. Customers get automated investing in diversified portfolios, a simple retirement product, a bank account that helps people spend less to invest more, and bonus investments from 20k brands. Plus, everyday Americans can easily invest in their kids and get money news they can use, all from the same app. From acorns, mighty oaks do grow! Disclosures available at https://www.acorns.com/disclosures/
Founding Year
2012
Headquarters
Irvine
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United States
Sector(s)
Fintech
Funding State
Pre-Seed
Seed
Series A
Series B+
Exited
Total Funding Amount
$686.04M
Funds that Investested
Techstars
Techstars is a global accelerator which invested in more than 3,300 early-stage startups. As one of the largest pre-seed investors in the world, their portfolio is as diversified as their 7,300 founders are unique - from HealthTech and FinTech, to Web3 and CleanTech; from Miami and Silicon Valley to Lagos and London.
Pre-Seed
Seed
Series A
Series B+
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Industry Ventures
Industry Ventures is an investment firm that makes venture capital investments and manages over $3.5 billion of institutional capital.
Pre-Seed
Seed
Series A
Series B+
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MATH Venture Partners
MATH Venture Partners invests in teams building companies with an unfair advantage in customer acquisition.
Pre-Seed
Seed
Series A
Series B+
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Bain Capital Ventures
Invests in seed to growth-stage startups that uses tech to disrupt existing markets or create entirely new ones.
Pre-Seed
Seed
Series A
Series B+
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Greycroft
A community of over 250 diverse teams, across 30 states and 19 countries, sharing one common goal: redefining the Internet economy.
Pre-Seed
Seed
Series A
Series B+
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Kleiner Perkins
Kleiner Perkins was founded in the 1970s by Tom Perkins and Eugene Kleiner. The firm is focused on early-stage digital consumer and enterprise, green tech and life sciences companies.
Pre-Seed
Seed
Series A
Series B+
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Lakehouse Ventures
Lakehouse leads pre-seed rounds for companies focused on urgent problems founded by focussed operators
Pre-Seed
Seed
Series A
Series B+
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Hustle Fund
Loves to invest in scrappy founders w/ a somewhat bootstrap mentality; frugal and resourceful. Hot Sectors: B2B, Fintech, web3, digital health. Not-so-hot sectors: Consumer, marketplaces, e-commerce. They are ok with pre-revenue; earlier is better.
Pre-Seed
Seed
Series A
Series B+
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Great Oaks Venture Capital
Seed-stage investment firm committed to identifying, financing and developing early stage growth businesses led by promising entrepreneurs.
Pre-Seed
Seed
Series A
Series B+
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Point72 Ventures
Led by Steven A Cohen, an investor with 30+ years of experience. Point72 ventures wants to invest in founders who are passionate, knowledgeable, differentiated, and all-in.
Pre-Seed
Seed
Series A
Series B+
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Torch Capital
Torch Capital is an early-stage consumer-focused venture capital firm.
Pre-Seed
Seed
Series A
Series B+
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K50 Ventures
Building a better future for the 99%. K50 is partnering with those who refuse to accept the status quo; those who have a vision for how to radically improve daily life for everyone – in our local communities, and around the globe. They invest in the early-stages with an ownership target of 5% - 10%+.
Pre-Seed
Seed
Series A
Series B+
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Comcast Ventures
Comcast Ventures partners with extraordinary entrepreneurs building transformative consumer and enterprise companies.
Pre-Seed
Seed
Series A
Series B+
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Restive Ventures
Invests in early stage fintech companies in the US
Pre-Seed
Seed
Series A
Series B+
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Day One Ventures
Early-stage venture capital firm that backs customer-obsessed companies and spearheads their communications.
Pre-Seed
Seed
Series A
Series B+
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Sound Ventures
Sound Ventures is a venture capital firm that seeks to invest in the technology sector.
Pre-Seed
Seed
Series A
Series B+
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Headline
Headline is a global venture capital firm investing in rising founders across B2B and B2C, with teams on the ground in 7 cities around the world. Since its founding in 1998, Headline has worked alongside founders with global aspirations from Silicon Valley to São Paulo, Beijing to Berlin.
They are actively on the ground across continents, seeing local trends up close, searching for top founders, and bringing them our world of resources. Once we commit to a team, we go to the ends of the earth – connecting entrepreneurs to each other, to customers, and to insights from distant markets – to help them become a global success.
They are actively on the ground across continents, seeing local trends up close, searching for top founders, and bringing them our world of resources. Once we commit to a team, we go to the ends of the earth – connecting entrepreneurs to each other, to customers, and to insights from distant markets – to help them become a global success.
Pre-Seed
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Series A
Series B+
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Investors that Investested
Andrew Boszhardt Jr
Founder & Managing Member, Great Oaks Venture Capital
Helped seed over 200 technology and consumer startups over the last three decades. Prior to founding Great Oaks in 2003, Andy was a Managing Director at Neuberger Berman, co-founded and sold an asset management business and was an executive at Goldman Sachs from 1980 to 1996. Select Investments: Arbor (acquired by LiveRamp), CourseHero, Flatiron Health (Acquired by Roche), Future Advisor (acquired by BlackRock), HealthTap, Ibotta, JOOR, Maven Clinic, Pluto.TV, Stubhub (acquired by Ebay), Trulia (IPO), Zipongo.
Pre-Seed
Seed
Series A
Series B+
Henry McNamara
General Partner, Great Oaks Venture Capital
Investments include Acorns, Allbirds, Atom Finance, Away, Bolt, Cardless, David Energy, Equipment Share, Fetch Rewards, Haus, Human Interest, Kargo, Maven Clinic, Moov, Oula Health, Petal, Real Therapy, Sundays for Dogs, Truebill, Workrise (formerly RigUp), Virta Health, Vise. In addition to his work at Great Oaks, Henry serves as a board member for Runway for Recovery, a non-profit working to direct vital funds to children and families who are affected by breast cancer to lessen the burden and obstacles of losing a caregiver to the disease.
Pre-Seed
Seed
Series A
Series B+
Stuart O'Keeffe
General Partner, Great Oaks Venture Capital
Partner on the investment team at Great Oaks Venture Capital who focuses on pre-seed & seed stage companies in fintech, healthcare & marketplaces Avid reader, runner and tech enthusiast Graduated BA in Economics from Cornell Select Investments: Astra Finance, Atom Finance, Lance Bank, Sympto Health, Soil Connect, Takko
Pre-Seed
Seed
Series A
Series B+
Aniq Rahman
Managing Partner, Vast Ventures
Aniq left Cornell University to grow and sell his first company, and never looked back. Before joining Vast in 2014, he was the CEO at Instinctiv (acquired by SoundCloud), and later became President of Moat (acquired by Oracle).
Pre-Seed
Seed
Series A
Series B+
Dana Settle
Founding Partner, Greycroft
Co-Founder and Partner at Greycroft.
Pre-Seed
Seed
Series A
Series B+
Mathias Schilling
Founding, Managing Partner, Headline
Matthias wants to find obsessed entrepreneurs who intuitively build products that make consumers obsessed too.
Pre-Seed
Seed
Series A
Series B+
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