Barbara Ann Corcoran

 Barbara Ann Corcoran was a speaker, investor, and businesswoman from the United America. 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 and shortly thereafter exited the company. One of the original "Shark" investors, Corcoran has appeared in the entire 12 seasons of ABC's Shark Tank to date. As of February 2020, she's signed 53 deals on the show, with the biggest being a $350,000 investment 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. Florence Corcoran was Florence's mother and also a housekeeper. Her father, Edwin W. Corcoran Jr. moved from job to job throughout Corcoran's early years. The family relied on free food deliveries from a local grocer. Corcoran recalls her father as someone who would drink occasionally and treated her mother with disrespect. Corcoran was a struggle in school and was later diagnosed with dyslexia. Corcoran was educated at a Catholic elementary school and then enrolled in high school in Englewood at St. Cecilia High School. Corcoran graduated from Leonia High School with a diploma in English, despite failing several courses during her freshman years.