Acorns To Demo At Money 20/20 Launchpad360

NEWPORT BEACH, Calif., Oct. 21, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Acorns, the first micro-investing app that helps people save and invest, today announced it will demo its investment app and financial engine on Wednesday, November 5 at Money 20/20, the world's largest event for payments and financial services innovation. Acorns cofounder and COO, Jeff Cruttenden, will provide an in-depth demonstration of the micro-investing app's features and capabilities in front of 7,000 conference attendees at the show's highly anticipated Launchpad360 event. Alongside a select group of invitation-only companies, Acorns will have 360 seconds to demo its app and announce new product innovations.

Money20/20 – November 2-5, 2014
What: Money20/20's Launchpad360
Who: Jeff Cruttenden, Cofounder and COO of Acorns
Where: Aria, Las Vegas
When: Wednesday, November 5 @ 9:44-9:50 am PST
Details: Launchpad360 offers companies the unique opportunity to present to the general session audience and provide a 360-degree view of their leading edge innovations in just 360 seconds. The event invites the industry's most disruptive and innovative companies to showcase their products and services and also reveal product news that hasn't been publicly shared.

Eliminating the barriers preventing millennials from investing, Acorns' micro-investing app creates a seamless way for its users to find money and build wealth in the background of life. Since launching in both the App Store and Google Play, Acorns has become the fastest growing investment app in the US with over 75,000 active users in less than two months. Together with a short app demonstration at the show, Acorns will be making a strategic product announcement that will help the company continue on its impressive growth trajectory and exceed $250 million in assets under management (AUM) by the end of 2015.

About Acorns Grow Inc.
Acorns is the first true micro investing company, allowing people to round up purchases and automatically invest the change®. The Acorns app and financial engine were built to help people micro invest commission-free into a diversified portfolio of index funds offered by the world's largest asset managers: Vanguard, Blackrock, and PIMCO. Customers accumulate fractional shares, automatically saving and investing small amounts of money frequently. The app can also help identify and gather found money, such as rebates and rewards, which can be automatically swept into the customer's investment account. Like the alarm app that helps you wake, and the calendar app that helps you keep appointments, Acorns works behind the scenes, saving and investing pennies at a time, so you don't have to. From Acorns mighty oaks do grow!

Acorns Grow Inc. (d/b/a/Acorns) is the parent of Acorns Securities LLC, a member of FINRA and SIPC, and Acorns Advisers LLC, an SEC registered investment adviser.

This is not an offer or a solicitation to buy or sell securities. Investing involves risk. Investments are not FDIC or NCUA insured. Projections are hypothetical in nature. Brokerage services are provided to Acorns Advisers LLC by Acorns Securities LLC, member of FINRA/SIPC.

About Money20/20
Money20/20 is the world's largest event enabling payments and financial services innovation for connected commerce at the intersection of mobile, retail, marketing services, data and technology. With 7,000 attendees, including more than 600 CEOs, from over 2,250 companies and 60 countries, Money20/20 is critical to realizing the vision of disruptive ways in which consumers and businesses manage, spend and borrow money. The next Money20/20 will be held on Nov. 2-5, 2014 in Las Vegas, and will be preceded by the Money20/20 Hackathon, which runs Nov. 1-2. To learn more about Money20/20, visit www.money2020.com.

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SOURCE Acorns Grow Inc.