Barbara Ann Corcoran

 Barbara Ann Corcoran was born March 10, 1949. She is an American investor and speaker as well as consultant. The Corcoran Group was a New York City real estate brokerage she established. NRT purchased it for $66 million in 2001. Corcoran soon exited the company. Corcoran was among the first Shark Tank investors. She has appeared in every season of ABC's Shark Tank. Since February of 2020, she's signed 53 deals for the show, the largest one being $350,000 to purchase 40 percent of Coverplay. Corcoran was born in Edgewater, New Jersey, the youngest of 10 children in a working class Irish-Catholic family. [8] Her mother, Florence, was a household worker. Edwin W. Corcoran Jr. was her father. He moved from one job to the next during Corcoran's early years. At times, her family relied upon deliveries of free food from a local grocer. Corcoran still remembers her father as someone who would drink sometimes and did not treat her mother with respect. Corcoran was a struggle in school, and was later told that she was dyslexic. Corcoran entered high school in St. Cecilia High School Englewood, after she left her Catholic elementary school. After flunking several courses during her first year of high school, Corcoran transferred to Leonia High School in Leonia, where she graduated as a D student.