Barbara Ann Corcoran

 Barbara Ann Corcoran was a speaker, investor, and businesswoman from the United American. She was the founder of The Corcoran Group, a real estate brokerage in New York City, which she sold to NRT for $66 million in 2001 and shortly after, she left the company. One of the show's original "Shark" investors, Corcoran has appeared in the entire 12 seasons of ABC's Shark Tank until today. As of February 2020 she had completed 53 deals. The largest of these was a $350,000 investment in Coverplay at 40 percent. Corcoran was the second of a family of 10 children born to an Irish-Catholic couple working in the middle class in Edgewater, New Jersey. Florence Corcoran's mother was a homemaker. Edwin W. Corcoran Jr. her father was a skilled worker throughout Corcoran's early years. Her family often depended on food delivery services for free from a local grocery store. Corcoran remembers her father as an intoxicated man who would sometimes treat her mother with contempt and disrespect, particularly after having consumed alcohol. Corcoran struggled throughout her schooling, later learning that she was dyslexic. Corcoran attended an Catholic elementary school in her neighborhood and began high school at St. Cecilia High School, Englewood. Corcoran completed her studies at Leonia High School with a degree in English after not completing several classes in her first year.