Barbara Ann Corcoran

 Barbara Ann Corcoran is an American businesswoman from America. In 2001, she founded The Corcoran Group in New York City. She sold the business to NRT for $66 million. Then, shortly after she resigned from the business. One of the show's original "Shark" investors, Corcoran has appeared in all 12 seasons of ABC's Shark Tank until today. In February of 2020, she had completed 53 deals. The most significant of these was a $350,000 investment in Coverplay at 40 percent. Corcoran, who was the second of 10 children from a Catholic family with a low-income, was born in Edgewater in New Jersey. Florence Corcoran's mother was a homemaker. Edwin W. Corcoran Jr. was her father through Corcoran's early years. Sometimes, her family relied upon free food delivery from a friendly local grocery store. Corcoran recalls her father as one who sometimes was a drinker and treated her mother with disrespect and condescension, particularly when he was drinking. Corcoran struggled through her schooling before discovering that she had dyslexia. Corcoran began in high school at St. Cecilia High School Englewood after attending an Catholic primary school. Corcoran was a failure in numerous classes in her first year of high school, was moved to Leonia High School. There she received a grade of D.