Barbara Ann Corcoran

Barbara Ann Corcoran, born on March 10, 1949, is an American businesswoman and investor. She is also a lecturer, consultant, speaker, columnist syndicated as an author, author, and television presenter. She 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 one of the original Shark Tank investors. She has appeared on every season of ABC's Shark Tank. Corcoran has signed 53 deals as of February, 2020. The biggest deal she signed was her $350,000 investment in Coverplay for 40%. Corcoran was born in Edgewater, New Jersey, the youngest of 10 children in a middle class Irish-Catholic family. Florence Corcoran's mom, was a housewife. Her father, Edwin W. Corcoran Jr., bounced between jobs throughout Corcoran's childhood. At times, the family depended on food delivery for free from a friendly local grocery store. Corcoran recalls her father, a man who sometimes drank too much and treated her mother disrespectfully and condescendingly, particularly after he'd had a few drinks. Corcoran had difficulty in school, and discovered later she was dyslexic. Corcoran was a student at a Catholic elementary school in her community and started high school at St. Cecilia High School, Englewood. Corcoran was fluent in several courses her first year. She was transferred to Leonia High School and graduated with a D.