Timed to NFL Kickoff, Acorns Matches Lost Bets Up to $50 to Flip Sunday Night Regret into a First Investment

IRVINE, Calif., Sept. 9, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Acorns, the financial wellness company helping everyday Americans grow their money, today announced the launch of “Investinall,” a spoof pharmaceutical product that cures a losing bet, designed to turn Sunday night regret into a first investment.

27% of Americans and half of men ages 18–49 (52%) say they have an active account with an online sportsbook, yet 96% lost money from online betting. Not because they didn’t know better, but because the industry was designed that way: variable rewards, near-miss notifications, and in-game micro-bets engineered to keep the dopamine loop running.

Sports betting isn’t the only product built this way. Day-trading platforms sell volatility as opportunity, and prediction markets gamify everything from stock prices to reality television to world events. What they have in common: they’re all engineered to exploit impulse, and they’re all being marketed hardest to a generation trained to expect instant results. “Investinall” is the opposite. It’s a 100-year-old idea dressed up as a product launch. It looks like a real product. It reads like a real product. It ships like a real product. Active ingredient: time and a chance at compound interest. Inactive ingredients: diversification and patience.

“People want more money, and if they’re led to believe there’s a faster way to get it, they’re going to pursue that. But the reality is that getting rich happens slowly,” said Noah Kerner, CEO of Acorns. “There’s no shortcut – not trading, not predicting, not gambling. We made “Investinall” because people might not listen to us preaching this, but maybe a good dose of medicine will do the trick.”

Acorns received feedback from a customer who said they had a gambling problem and spent $8,000 in a single month that they could have saved, and reached out asking if Acorns could block them from withdrawing their own money to protect themselves from gambling it away.

To turn Sunday night regret into Monday morning momentum, Acorns is matching lost bets up to $50, giving new customers the opportunity to turn a losing wager into the first deposit of a long-term investment portfolio. Because for the 1 in 4 sports bettors who have missed a bill because of gambling, the best next move isn’t another bet.

Starting today, Americans who lose a bet can head to Acorns.com/Investinall to receive up to $50 as their first bonus investment deposit. Available exclusively to new Acorns customers who set up a recurring investment, because one deposit is a moment, but a habit is how wealth actually gets built.

The average surveyed sports bettor spends $3,284 a year on gambling – $274 a month. If that same person invested $274 a month instead at a historical average return of 8% annually, they could grow that to over $950,000 after 40 years. One disappears before the 4th quarter. The other works while you sleep.

Investinall launches today across digital, social, and out-of-home channels, targeting NFL regular season kickoff to meet everyday Americans at the intersection of culture, sports, and financial reality. The campaign is amplified by a network of creators sharing their own “lost bet” moments, turning a universal Sunday night feeling into a cultural conversation about what that money could have become instead. Offer runs through 12/1/2026.*

About Acorns
Acorns is the financial wellness company helping everyday Americans grow their money for the long term. Since 2014, Acorns has grown into a global company with multiple life stage products serving the needs of kids, teens, adults and parents. Named one of America’s Best Financial Services of 2026 by TIME, Acorns has served over 16 million people, and helped customers save & invest over $33 billion dollars, much of it from spare change and small amounts.

Investing involves risk, including the loss of principal. Please consider your objectives, risk tolerance, and Acorns’ fees before investing. Investment advisory products and services offered by Acorns Advisers, LLC (Acorns), an SEC Registered Investment Adviser. Brokerage products and services are provided by Acorns Securities, LLC, an SEC registered Broker Dealer, Member FINRA/SIPC. For more information visit Acorns.com.

Acorns Invest is an individual investment account which invests in a portfolio of ETFs (Exchange-Traded Funds) recommended to customers based on their responses to the Acorns investor profile questionnaire.

*$1–$50 bonus investment offer for first time Acorns customers who: (1) use the slider at acorns.com/investinall to select a self-reported gambling loss amount; (2) open an Acorns Invest Account; and (3) complete a recurring investment of at least $5. Valid 12:00 a.m. ET on 9/9/26 to 11:59 p.m. ET on 12/1/26. Legal U.S. residents 18+ only. Limit 1/person. Terms apply.

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