Acorns App Gives You a Way to Finally Invest Your Spare Change

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Name: Acorns

One-Liner Pitch: Acorns aims to let users invest with just their spare change

Why It’s Taking Off: The app, which is still in beta, automatically rounds up your purchases to the nearest dollar and puts the difference in an investment portfolio.

When Jeff Cruttenden was 11 years old, his father asked him to pick one stock to invest in. He took some time to look through a few stocks and then went with his gut. Read more…

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