Barbara Ann Corcoran

 Barbara Ann Corcoran was a speaker, investor, and businesswoman from the United States. She co-founded The Corcoran Group, a real estate brokerage located in New York City, which she sold to NRT for $66 million in 2001. She shortly thereafter exited the company. Corcoran was among the original Shark Tank investors. She was a regular on every episode of ABC's Shark Tank. Since February of 2020, she has made 53 deals with the show, the largest one being $350,000 for 40% of Coverplay. Corcoran was born in Edgewater, New Jersey, the youngest of 10 children in a working class Irish-Catholic family. Florence Corcoran's mother was a homemaker. Her father, Edwin W. Corcoran Jr., bounced from job to job during Corcoran's childhood. The family relied on food deliveries from the local grocer who would deliver free food. Corcoran still remembers her father as someone who drank occasionally and did not treat her mother with respect. Corcoran was a troubled student in school. She later discovered that she had dyslexia. Corcoran was a student at an Catholic elementary school in her community and began high school in St. Cecilia High School, Englewood. Corcoran was a failure in numerous classes in her freshman year, transferred to Leonia High School. There she was awarded a D.